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. Of all the people you would think would latch on to the Russia story as something worth paying attention to independent media should be at the top of the list, and to their credit most are, Cenk Uygur and his section of The Young Turks, David Packman paralleling so called mainstream media giving their audience, unlikely to view their national television news, named liberal, democrat cable sources MSNBC, CNN an understanding of what the both factual breakdown and investigative consensus is on the topic. About how Russia attempted to influence then hack America's 2016 election, the impetus behind authorities' Trump collusion inquiry into what his campaign and perhaps Trump himself did with a foreign power to win an election, allowing themselves to be used by a foreign power to their own ends i.e. helping put someone in power here on U.S. soil to the advantage of a foreign power. But others have consistently ignored developments in the Russian investigation, ignored top print news sources, they regularly quote when they wish to, when using it as a comment platform, front page, bombshell stories unearthing potential reasons for Trump Russia collusion on either side, money trails and money incentives involved, at bare minimum clear attempts by Russian entities to leverage wanted power, money, prestige exc. in exchange for Trump campaign officials, advisors and related associates doing what they wanted, a process known in spy craft as dangling. Kyle Kulinski has a particularly peculiar coverage pattern when addressing Russia on his show, opposite of the other key holdout Jimmy Dore who continually shows, in his mind, how the media and everyone is getting it wrong, what a mistake is being made by talking about it so frequently; he refuses to talk about it mostly unless he's mocking it. Fond of calling it the democrats' Benghazi, throwing out relentless reminders not singularly on how tone deaf, disorganized and unprepared and thus likely to lose democrats are ahead of 2018, but admonishing them they can't win on being anti-Trump and what he calls Russia, Russia, Russia, implication unjustified hysteria, calling it bad MSNBC is now enjoying top billing among the 3 media giants while Fox News came in 3rd for 'the first time ever,' in a long time, salaciously stating 'Russia is good for ratings.' Until certain persons or points are brought up, then he agrees with that portion, only that portion being deliberately obtuse acting as though it exists on an isolated island unrelated to anything else and says succinctly ok guilty, lock them up. Quoting almost verbatim his comments on former national security advisor Michael Flynn after it was reported he did work on behalf of Turkey sans registering as a foreign agent suggesting American foreign policy aligned with what the Turks wanted; what he missed there is who was behind those payments, Russia. He said identical things about Paul Manafort when a ledger was revealed detailing payments to the former Trump campaign manager by pro Russia, pro Putin forces in Ukraine he references reports putting the figure at millions of dollars worth. Kulinski talked about himself also being from New York saying he could totally see Trump doing what fired FBI director James Comey said he did asking if he could let the Flynn investigation go, behaving like he did back in the 1970's big apple, forging real-estate deals where, at the time, mob entities were always involved; admitting if that's true, despite there being no 'there, there' on Russia he's "not allowed to do that," meaning he is indeed guilty of obstruction of justice. Unanswered is why he would obstruct justice if there is no substance to the Russia collusion allegations; analysts highlighting Trump is not exceedingly loyal to his people referencing his bullying humiliation of attorney general Jeff Sessions, his belittling of republicans on capitol hill, his transition shake up tossing aside Chris Christie as head of his transition team, metaphorical 'torture' of Mitt Romney when it came time to pick a secretary of state. Leading to the next logical question, what does Michael Flynn have on Donald Trump he feels like he must keep him in his good graces? He, the Secular Talk host, was surprised special counsel Robert Mueller started to scrutinize Trump's finances saying it just got serious, excited an investigation was going after Donald Trump for plain old, standard corruption not Russia itself; why this is surprising remains a mystery considering the easiest way to both ascertain corruption and provide plausible motive for alleged collusion is to, reviving the tried and true cliché: follow the money. His 'linchpin,' as he calls it, reason for initially mimicking Sebastian Gorka, of all people, in calling Russia a big fat nothing burger, the Trump administration's rejection of Exxon-Mobile's petitions to bypass Russian sanctions complete opposite of what democrats insisted would happen thereby giving them ironclad proof, their salivated after 'smoking gun' president Trump, cabinet members, Whitehouse persons were actively working with the Russians both past and present. However the aforementioned premise comes from an essential failure to connect 2 very significant dots, democrats were so convinced their outlined scenario would become reality namely A- because of Rex Tillerson's previous work with Russia netting the country a huge profit between their Rosneft and Exxon-Mobile, the latter lining their pockets substantially too, B-Mr. Tillerson, friend of Russia and oil CEO was made secretary of state; a former Russian energy minister did call Tillerson a gift to Putin elaborating his conflict of interest was "written on forehead." Never confronted, if it's remotely possible democrats were correct in their assumptions about, at the very least how Trump views his relationship with Putin, how Putin views his existing/future relationship with Trump, merely wrong on how evidence supporting that view would manifest itself; keep reading for more on that thread. Kulinski's ongoing stubborn resistance to the very idea of Trump collusion, as it's now shorthanded in news segments, media articles, being anything other the 'corporate democrat' hyperbolics seems to be lagging comprehension motive behind a Russia investigation is not to declare president Trump guilty before gathering proper facts, although the drip, drip, drip litany of front page stories, exposed information strongly indicates guilt on the part of Trump's so called inner circle, if not Trump directly. The 'Russia investigation' instead was designed to determine firstly, was there collusion and in a way that constitutes criminality, laws broken by which people can and should be prosecuted, not just on collusion but under the written mandate of America's deputy attorney general "anything directly arising from the special counselor's inquiry." Hopefully by the end of the piece hold outs will have come to the solid conclusion the only thing to be answered is finer details illuminating how collusion took place and how much of it exactly went on. Secondly, if there is evidence of criminal level collusion, wrongdoing, which campaign, transition, sitting staff members were involved, on the other hand, which ones weren't; thirdly, assuming 1 and 2 are thoroughly proven to legal standard, what role, if any, did candidate, president elect or president of the United States Donald J. Trump play in discovered collusion? The old what did he know, when did he know it line with a side of what should he have known by virtue of paying attention, vetting campaign, transition, Whitehouse staff properly in concordance with positions they were to hold. Fourthly, is there evidence to support obstruction of justice in conjunction with unfolding cover-up attempts, lies, obfuscations, document destructions, withholding information either for Trump himself or Trump staff current/former?… Donald Trump infamously, promoting his border wall, said you don't have a country without borders; well you also don't have a country without full faith, unmolested, tampered with elections people can be absolutely certain represent their choices. Why Russia and potential collusion matter enough to match the 'hysteria' generated about them. Read More
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The feature was spotted by the chaps over at the RIM-obsessed CrackBerry blog, who wasted no time demonstrating how a BlackBerry handset, prompted by linking up with a PlayBook, can be used to remotely control a Motorola Xoom and even a PS3, with only Apple devices refusing to place nicely.
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Surging popularity of passenger information systems to expedite the industry growth:
Driven by the increasing level of competition in the industry coupled with rising passenger expectations, the Passenger Information System (PIS) solution holds the largest growth potential in the global railway management system market. The growth of this segment can also be aptly credited to the high level of urbanization coupled with the increased use of smartphones and rapid evolution of technologies.
The popularity PIS components has also triggered a number of partnership agreements in the industry. For instance, back in December 2018 KeTech Systems Limited (KeTech) partnered with Luminator Technology Group (LTG) to develop a real-time enhanced Passenger Information System.
System integration & deployment services to gain traction in railway management system market:
As railway systems work on adopting IoT and bringing in an overall digital transformation to the market, system integration & deployment services are expected to garner intense momentum, as railways replace conventional network systems with new & innovative IP-based technologies. Railway management system market size from system integration and deployment services was pegged at around $1 billion in 2017, and the industry is projected to acquire significant gains from these services in the years to come.
The projected growth can be attributed to the fact that rail companies continue to adopt more efficient system integration & deployment services in an effort to successfully integrate their present legacy systems with new, innovative technologies while also rolling-out new systems to create highly-scalable, cost-effective solutions to facilitate an enhanced end-to-end connectivity.
Rising adoption of the cloud deployment model to positively influence the industry trends:
The various benefits offered by the cloud would be responsible for enabling railway management system market from the cloud deployment model to register the fastest growth rate over 2018-2024. The model helps rail authorities to perform their operations in a highly efficient & greatly convenient manner as it allows for over-the-air updates, easy remote access through a browser while also being highly scalable & secure. These attributes make the model highly sought after, further augmenting its demands across the global railway management system market.
With the rising need to better serve the tech-savvy customers who are demanding for more efficient & easier to access services and the inherent requirement to make the rail authorities' operations more convenient & less complex, the global railway management system market is projected to record significant gains in the forthcoming years. According to Global Market Insights Inc., the increasing rate of IoT adoption across the global rail industry is projected to impel the remuneration scale of railway management system market, slated to cross a valuation of $64 billion by 2024.
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Don't expect a Citigroup break-upOctober 18, 2012: 6:55 AM ET
Citigroup (C) may have just gotten a new CEO, but don't expect the world's financial supermarket to be dismantled anytime soon, say several current and former Citi bankers.
Vikram Pandit's sudden departure has immediately raised questions about whether Citi's board would push for a break-up.
Instead, the bank's newly installed CEO, Michael Corbat, will more likely preside over a cultural shift that includes radically slimming down the bank's emphasis on trading.
Citigroup cannot simply separate commercial banking from investment banking because both units serve many of the same clients.
And it's carved out a particularly sweet spot with corporate clients, where Citi's investment bankers work directly with commercial bankers to provide a host of offerings, including loans, derivative products and M&A advisory services.
"I don't think a separation of the investment bank from the commercial bank is feasible today," said an investment banker and former senior executive at Citi who works on M&A activity on behalf of major banks, but declined to be identified. "It's impractical, if not impossible. How do you split up a business when there's so much overlap?" he added.
Related: Pandit's $15 million payday still a question mark
Even simply selling off Citigroup's credit card unit would be challenging, since that serves its consumer base and allows Citi to collect additional fees from its banking customers.
Some international divisions could in theory be spun off or sold, but that would force Citi to lose some of its " international jewels," the banker said. Citigroup's subsidiary in Mexico, Banemex, is one of the country's largest consumer banks, but selling that would likely hurt Citi's options in Mexico over the long-term.
The biggest bullseye? Trading.
Trading had been a major focus under Pandit, who spent more than two decades in Morgan Stanley's trading units before co-founding Old Lane, a hedge fund he sold to Citi for $800 million in 2007.
While Pandit has been forced to slim down Citigroup over the last several years by selling off its wealth brokerage business Smith Barney and life insurance firm Primerica, the bank has only minimally scaled back its stock, bond and derivatives trading activity.
Several current and former employees expect Corbat's knife to hit there. Michael O'Neill, the chairman of Citigroup's board, is seen as a back-to-basics banker and Corbat is expected to follow his lead.>
Corbat told investors on a conference call Tuesday that he was going to take time to review Citi's businesses and there would be some changes coming. But he emphasized that the bank's overall business model was the right one. The bank declined to comment further.
Corbat, a 29-year veteran of Citigroup, initially joined Salomon Smith Barney, which became part of Citigroup during former CEO Sandy Weill's roll-up of an array of financial institutions. Yet many within the bank see him as a more traditional commercial banker, more focused on serving clients than finding creative ways to generate investment banking fees. In the early part of this decade, Corbat spent several years running Citi's global commercial bank.
The new CEO is also well-versed in unwinding assets. He ran Citi Holdings, the unit housing the bank's "bad" legacy assets from the financial crisis, and worked on the sale of over $500 billion of troubled holdings.


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Reciprocal frequent flyer programme benefits for Jetprivilege and Garuda frequent flyer members
Mumbai, India, 2013-11-19 — /travelprnews.com/ — Jet Airways, India's premier international airline, and Garuda Indonesia, the national carrier of Indonesia, have concluded a code share agreement and simultaneously launched a reciprocal frequent flyer programme. This would offer guests of both airlines with a variety of options and seamless access when traveling throughout the combined networks.
Under the codeshare arrangement, Jet Airways will place its marketing code on Garuda Indonesia's flights between Singapore and Jakarta. In turn, Garuda will place its marketing code on Jet Airways' operations between Singapore and Mumbai, Delhi and Chennai. The codeshare will provide more choice for customers between India and Indonesia, with seamless and convenient connections over the international gateway, Singapore.
Furthermore, with the full fledged frequent flyer partnership between Jet Airways' JetPrivilege and Garuda Indonesia's Frequent Flyer program, members will now benefit from frequent flyer mileage accrual and redemption opportunities on not only the codeshare routes, but the entire network of Garuda Indonesia across Indonesia, and on Jet Airways' extensive pan-India domestic and international networks.
According to Mr. Gaurang Shetty, Senior Vice President – Commercial, Jet Airways, "We are delighted to announce a code share partnership with Garuda Indonesia. Indonesia is a popular tourist destination for Indian travellers and a strategic trade and investment partner for India. With the seamless connections offered by this arrangement, we are confident that this codeshare will see a further increase in demand for business and leisure travel between India and Indonesia."
Erik Meijer, Executive Vice President Marketing and Sales of Garuda Indonesia, said, "We are pleased to have the codeshare partnership with Jet Airways as it will further strengthen the global network of both airlines and provide increased benefits to all our passengers. Through this agreement, Garuda Indonesia will be able to extend its service to India, which is an important market for Indonesia, both in terms of business as well as leisure travel while Jet Airways will provide more convenient connections for their passengers to Indonesia."
About Jet Airways
Jet Airways currently operates a fleet of 113 aircraft, which include 10 Boeing 777-300 ER aircraft, 10 Airbus A330-200 aircraft, 4 Airbus A330-300 aircraft, 72 next generations Boeing 737-700/800/900/900 ER aircraft and 15 ATR 72-500 and 2 ATR72-600. With an average fleet age of 5.19 years, the airline has one of the youngest fleet of aircraft in the world. Flights to 76 destinations span the length and breadth of India and beyond, including Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Bangkok, Brussels, Colombo, Dammam, Dhaka, Doha, Dubai, Hong Kong, Jeddah, Kathmandu, Kuwait, London (Heathrow), Muscat, New York (Newark), Riyadh, Sharjah, Singapore and Toronto.
About JetKonnect
JetKonnect is a dedicated product designed to meet the needs of the low fare segment. JetKonnect will also offer guests a Premiere service on nearly all domestic routes. With its mixed fleet of Boeings and ATR aircraft with nearly 304 daily flights connecting 48 destinations across India, JetKonnect provides more flexibility and choice to its guests. JetKonnect's convenient schedules, reliable service and low fares, promise to bring greater value and a seamless flying experience to our customers.
Jet Airways and JetKonnect together operate nearly 579 daily flights, both domestic and international.
About Garuda Indonesia
Garuda Indonesia is the "flag carrier" of Indonesia operating 126 aircraft (per H1-2013) to serve 39 domestic destinations and 20 international destinations across Southeast Asia (Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Singapore, and Bangkok), the Middle East (Jeddah and Abu Dhabi), Asia (Tokyo, Osaka, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Taipei, and Seoul), Australia (Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, and Brisbane), and Europe (Amsterdam), out of its four hubs in Indonesia, namely Jakarta, Denpasar, Makassar, and Medan. In line with improvements in various aspects of its performance and service, Garuda Indonesia has won a number of accolades and recognition from both national and international institutions, including "The World's Best Economy Class" award from Skytrax in June 2013 and the "Best in Region: Asia and Australasia", by the "Airline Passenger Experience Association (APEX)", in September 2013.


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Promoting one's logo and style has always been a concern if not a priority of any creative business, especially the music business. To have your record store or record label's graphic sensibility out in the world is like a tag, a notice that, "we exist righteously", and "take a look at us, we are cool and you want to be part of this!". What better way to do this than to attach your graphics onto the outside of an LP's inner sleeve living in eternity with the record snugly inside. Or, to have the store's bag carried out onto the street by your loyal customers with your logo beaming out at the universe. Now that's promotion, or perhaps simply an affirmation of being in the moment.
Here is a 10-year collection of various record store and record label's logo and graphic style across the eras, mostly committed to an LP's inner sleeve, and some retail shopping bags inclusive, logos singing raucously or whispering of the quality within. With trends and budgets shifting moment to moment, this collection becomes a small guide to the attraction of it for everyman's taste. What do folks think will look good? How will they remember our business? As I deal with old record collections and their ephemera daily, it's always a wonderful gift to have an exotic sleeve pop up from accross the country, or even the world. Records have always been a universally traded entertainment, and it's becoming more so by the month now.
So, this Record Store Day, sit back and find your favorites within the trove of typographical time. Just browsing these photos fills me with hope.
Click on any image to start a slideshow.
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As President Barack Obama prepares for a second term and market talk focuses on the dangers of the U.S. fiscal cliff, economists Kenneth Rogoff and Carmen Reinhart's debt theory is catching fire with the nation's investment strategists.
Both MFS Investment Management Chief Investment Strategist Jim Swanson and Morgan Stanley Wealth Management Senior Fixed Income Strategist Jonathan Mackay mentioned the economic historians on Tuesday at media briefings in New York. (And so did former President Bill Clinton, who cited the moderate Republican Rogoff and Reinhart while electioneering for Obama.)
Harvard economics professors Rogoff (left) and Reinhart are well known for their epic history of finance, "This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly," which uses a carefully built argument that sovereign default and high debt-to-GDP ratios–such as the one the United States is now burdened with–are disastrous for economic growth.
Clearly, the economists' theory has become common currency as Washington's politicians are warned about the havoc they can wreck if they fail to compromise on taxes and spending.
Mackay pointed to Rogoff's argument that financial crises begin in a country's banking system before spreading to the political sphere, while Swanson noted that debt-to-GDP is now higher than 80% in all G7 countries, including the United States.
"This is the mountain of debt problem that Rogoff and Reinhart have been writing about," Swanson said. "They say you can expect to see asset collapses with 100% debt to GDP."
In the United States, an all-out failure to reach a compromise could lead to a "Lehman-like" collapse and a 5% reduction of GDP, though what's more likely is a "muddle through" compromise that causes a one-quarter-long recession, Swanson said.
"It's in the interest of neither party to have an ideological win if it leads to a recession," Swanson said. "Our view is that a deal will get done in Washington."
Read Reinhart and Rogoff Rebuke Romney Economic Advisers at AdvisorOne.com.


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DURHAM - The Duke Blue Devils improved to 26-2 overall this season with a 78-61 defeat of #23 Temple on Wednesday evening in Cameron Indoor Stadium. Duke was led by Kyle Singler who dropped 28 points on his second to last game he'll play in Durham.
After struggling a bit on offense in the first half, the Blue Devils made some halftime adjustments and they played better on the post where they were once again led by Mason Plumlee who grabbed 13 rebounds and 6 points, 4 of those coming off successive dunks in a second half spurt.
An 8-0 run late in the first half helped Duke to a 31-24 edge in a game eerily similar to their last outing. The Blue Devils scored 34 points in the paint and held an 18-6 edge in points off turnovers as their defense continued it's solid play of late.
Nolan Smith added 15 points and 4 assists but was just 5 of 17 from the field. In short, it was another workmanlike effort by the Blue Devils who next play Virginia Tech with ESPN Game Day in Blacksburg for what is sure to be a hostile environment.
Sidebar -Duke has won 86 straight games versus non conference opponents. Duke has won 35 consecutive home games, longest in the nation. Duke has won 20 straight games in the state of North Carolina. Mason now has 13 games with double figure rebound this year. Smith scored in double figures in all but one game this season, the one where he played PG for the first time after Kyrie Irving's injury. For the second consecutive game, no media member asked about Kyrie Irving in the post game. Andre Dawkins hit 2 of 2 three point shots and that gives him an impressive .432 on the season.
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Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (Russian: Михаил Сергеевич Горбачёв, tr. Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachyov, IPA: ( listen); born 2 March 1931) is a former Soviet statesman, having served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991, and as the last head of state of the USSR, having served from 1988 until its dissolution in 1991. He was the only general secretary in the history of the Soviet Union to have been born during the Communist rule.
Gorbachev was born in Stavropol Krai into a peasant Ukrainian-Russian family, and in his teens operated combine harvesters on collective farms. He graduated from Moscow State University in 1955 with a degree in law. While he was at the university, he joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and soon became very active within it. In 1970, he was appointed the First Party Secretary of the Stavropol Kraikom, First Secretary to the Supreme Soviet in 1974, and appointed a member of the Politburo in 1979. Within three years of the deaths of Soviet Leaders Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov, and Konstantin Chernenko, Gorbachev was elected General Secretary by the Politburo in 1985. Already before he reached the post, he had occasionally been mentioned in western newspapers as a likely next leader and a man of the younger generation at the top level.
Gorbachev's attempts at reform as well as summit conferences with United States President Ronald Reagan and his reorientation of Soviet strategic aims contributed to the end of the Cold War, ended the political supremacy of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), and led to the dissolution of the Soviet Union. For these efforts, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990 and the Harvey Prize in 1992 as well as Honorary Doctorates from Durham University in 1995, Trinity College in 2002 and University of Münster in 2005.


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Thank you to those of you who joined us for our GenomeSpace recipe webinar on June 27, 2016. If you missed the webinar, don't worry! A recording of the webinar is available on our YouTube channel. While you're there, check out our recipe videos and other helpful guides.
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President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney met for the second of three debates Tuesday night at Hofstra University in Long Island, N.Y. The debate was a town hall format, with the candidates taking questions from undecided voters from the New York area and follow-ups from the moderator, CNN's Candy Crowley.
Crowley struggled at times to keep the candidates on track in a discussion that often became tense and borderline confrontational, with Romney and Obama frequently interrupting each other and walking around the stage intermittently.
Obama, Romney meet in first presidential debate
The most heated exchange came over Obama's handling of the recent situation in Libya in which a U.S. ambassador was killed. Romney told the audience that it took the Obama administration two weeks to call the incident an "act of terror," but Obama insisted that he had referred to it as such the day afterward during a speech in the Rose Garden. "Read the transcript," he sniped at Romney. (Crowley later confirmed that Obama did use the phrase.)
When he was next given a turn to speak, Obama admonished Romney for his mischaracterization. "The suggestion that anybody in my team, whether the Secretary of State, our UN ambassador, anybody on my team would play politics of mislead when we've lost four of our own, Governor, is offensive. That's not what we do. That's not what I do as president."
The audience, despite having been instructed beforehand to only applaud when the two candidates were introduced, cheered.
The best Twitter responses to the first presidential debate
Here's a rundown of some of the questions posed by those in the audience (responses have been edited for length):
Can you address inequalities in the workplace, including women getting paid less than men?
Romney: "We took a concerted effort to go out and find women who had backgrounds that could be qualified to become members of our cabinet [in Massachusetts]. I went to a number of women's groups and said, can you help us find folks? They brought us whole binders full of women. I recognize that if you're going to have women in the work force, that sometimes you need to be more flexible."
Obama: "Women are increasingly the breadwinners in the family. This is not just a women's issue. This is a family issue. This is a middle class issue. ... We've also got to make sure that in every walk of life, we do not tolerate discrimination. That's been one of the hallmarks of my administration. I'm going to continue to push on this issue for the next four years."
What will you do to bring gas prices down?
Romney: "I will fight to create more energy in this country, to get America energy secure, and part of that is bringing in a pipeline of oil from Canada, taking advantage of the oil and coal we have here, drilling offshore in Alaska, drilling offshore in Virginia. ... Those things will get us the energy we need."
Obama (to Romney): "When you were governor of Massachusetts, you stood in front of a coal plant and pointed at it and said, 'This plant kills,' and took great pride in shutting it down. And now suddenly you're a big champion of coal."
Would you eliminate tax cuts for the middle class?
Romney: "The top 5 percent of taxpayers will continue to pay 60 percent of the income tax the nation collects. So that will stay the same. Middle income people are going to get a tax break. ... I will not under any circumstances reduce the share that's being paid by the highest income taxpayers. And I will not, under any circumstances, increase taxes on the middle class. ... I know what it takes to balance budgets. I've done it my entire life."
Obama: "In addition to some tough spending cuts, we've also got to make sure that the wealthy do a little bit more. So what I've said is, 'Your first $250,000 worth of income, no change. ... For above 250,000, we can go back to the tax rates we had when Bill Clinton was president.' ... We haven't heard from the governor any specifics beyond Big Bird and eliminating funding for Planned Parenthood in terms of how he pays for that. ... Governor Romney was a very successful investor. If somebody came to you, Governor, with a plan that said, 'Here, I want to spend 7 or 8 trillion dollars and we're going to pay for it, but we can't tell you until maybe after the election how we're going to do it,' you wouldn't have taken such a sketchy deal. And neither should you, the American people, because the math doesn't add up."
(For Romney) What is the biggest difference between you and George W. Bush?
Romney: "President Bush and I are different people, and these are different times. ... Our party has been focused on big business too long. I came through small business. I understand how hard it is to start a small business. That's why everything I'll do is designed to help small businesses grow and add jobs. I want to keep their taxes down."
Obama: "We have been digging our way out of policies that were misplaced and focused on the top doing very well and middle class folks not doing well. ... When Governor Romney says that he has a very different economic plan, the centerpiece of his economic plan are tax cuts. That's what took us from surplus to deficit."
What is your plan for immigrants without a green card who are living as productive members of society?
Romney: "We welcome legal immigrants into this country. I want our legal system to work clearer. ... I also think that we should give visas, green cards rather, to people who graduate with skills that we need. ... We're going to have to stop illegal immigration. There are four million people who are waiting in line to get here legally. Those who come here illegally take their place, so I will not grant amnesty to those who come here illegally. ... The kids of those that came here illegally, those kids I think should have a pathway to become a permanent resident of the United States, and military service for instance is one way they would have that kind of pathway to become a permanent resident."
Obama: "The first thing we did was to streamline the legal immigration system, to reduce the backlog, make it easier, simpler and cheaper for people who are waiting in line obeying the law to make sure that they can come here and contribute to our country. ... We've put more border patrol on than any time in history and the flow of undocumented workers across the border is actually lower than it's been in four years. ... If we're going to go after folks who are here illegally, we should do it smartly and go after folks who are criminals, gangbangers, people who are hurting the community. Not after students, not after folks who are here just because they're trying to figure out how to feed their families. ... For young people who understand themselves as Americans in every way except having papers, then we should make sure that we give them a pathway to citizenship."
What plans do you have to put back and keep jobs here in the United States?
Romney: "We have made it less attractive for enterprises to stay here than to go offshore from time to time. What I will do as president is make sure it's more attractive to come to America again. ... We're going to have to make sure that as we trade with other nations that they play by the rules, and China hasn't. ... On day one, I will label China a currency manipulator, which will allow me as president to be able to put in place if necessary tariffs where I believe that they are taking unfair advantage of our manufacturers. ... We can compete with anyone in the world as long as the playing field is level. China's been cheating over the years, one by holding down the value of their currency, number two by stealing our intellectual property, our designs, our patents, our technology. ... We will have to have people play on a fair basis."
Obama: "We've put unprecedented trade pressure on China. That's why exports have significantly increased under my presidency. There's some jobs that are not going to come back, because they're low-wage, low-skilled jobs. I want high-wage, high-skill jobs. That's why we have to emphasize manufacturing."
What did you think of the debate? Who do you think won?


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Our community is served by some tremendous citizen police volunteers. These men & women dedicate their time, their energies and their outstanding talents to assist the members of their police department daily.
History: Our department ventured into this tremendous area of service and community relationship just four years years ago. What started with about six volunteers has grown into a team of nearly 20 current members. In 2015, this group provided more than 2,700 hours of volunteer service with and through our department. The really cool part is that to assure that they are led and managed by one of their own !
What Do We Do? Where some volunteers assist in critical areas of need within the building - from staffing our front public counter & assisting with data entry, to providing invaluable support to our Evidence Technician, others assist with the multitude of community programs we provide. Volunteers assist with our in-service training & education programs, especially serving as role-play actors during practical training exercises. And then others provide active security patrols throughout the community - patrolling neighborhoods, shopping centers and our local schools. Their mobile service does not stop there; they assist with traffic direction during power outages or roadway obstructions; they assist with conducting residential security checks for citizens away from home; they assist with operational calls, from searching for missing persons to providing resource support to officers during major incidents. And you will definitely encounter them walking greenways, our downtown area, and during our town's wonderful special events.
How Can You Get Involved, You Ask? It's very simple - just ask! Stop a volunteer and speak with them, stop into our office, or call our Community Resource Officer Tim Aycock (704-841-6754.) There is one requirement, though - to volunteer you must attend one of our Citizen Police Academies; but trust us, or just ask one of our volunteers, you'll be glad you did!


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Laced with gothic charm this Victorian gate lodge guards the entrance to Crathes Castle. Crathes is a Renaissance dream of winding turrets and pink-harled walls, set among acres of manicured gardens.
The lodge's arched latticed windows look out onto the castle driveway. A private garden with a picnic table is perfect for outdoor dining when the sun shines.
Accommodation details
- Sleeps 4 - 1 double, 1 twin
- Sitting room with dining area
- Kitchen
- Shower room with WC
- Oil fired central heating
- Immersion water heating
- Parking available outside the cottage
- Private garden (not fully enclosed)
- EPC Rating: F34
About Crathes Castle
Crathes estate dates back to 1323 when King Robert the Bruce granted the lands of Leys to the ancient Burnett family. The jewelled ivory Horn of Leys, symbolic of the gift, now hangs in the castle's Great Hall. The castle you see today was completed in the late 16th century and retains ornate ceilings, family portraits and even a 'trick-step' designed to confuse attackers.
Six different trails lead round the 240 hectare (595 acre) estate. Crathes's grounds are known as a hotspot for spying bats, as well as buzzards, kingfishers and herons.
About the area
Crathes is a settlement of around 25 houses, spreading out into farms and countryside, close to Banchory in Royal Deeside.
Things to do
- Steam-train enthusiasts will love the Royal Deeside Railway. Still undergoing a restoration project, the railway line currently runs for a mile along the River Dee.
- Pack up a hamper and head to the Linn of Dee, a 300 metre rock gorge, part of Mar Lodge estate and one of Queen Victoria's beloved picnicking spots.
- Drum Castle, the oldest intact building in the National Trust for Scotland's care. A medieval tower, a Jacobean mansion and Victorian extensions make this fortified ancestral home truly unique.
In the summer months, trace Scottish architectural history through the ages with a visit to
Getting there
Crathes Castle is off the A93, 15 miles west of Aberdeen and 3 miles east of Banchory. Aberdeen is the nearest railway station, and Aberdeen airport (Dyce) is 12 miles away. < Less


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This book provides insight into an exciting chapter of American History - the Black Powder Era. Black powder is intertwined with the early expansion of our country. Learn what it was like to walk the powder line at a gunpowder mill.
Written by Anne Kelly Lane & David McMahon, this book has over 80 powder labels, vintage photos, trade cards and gunpowder ads. Follow the lives and harrowing stories of those brave men and women who brought us the gunpowder that built America and made us the industrial powerhouse we are today. 8"x11", 118 pages, 15 chapters, Index and Glossary.


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Computer Sim Shows Cosmic Evolution Over Billions and Billions of Years
May 8, 2014 2:54 PM PT
Scientists have created a computer simulation that not only models the evolution of the universe down to the formation of individual galaxies, but also matches astronomical observations.
Unlike earlier efforts, the simulation depicts ordinary matter in the form of hydrogen gas from the very beginning.
The Illustris project models a cubic section of the universe measuring 106.5 megaparsecs on each side.
"We have improved upon previous work by both solving the equations of gas flows -- hydrodynamics -- more accurately, and including feedback processes from stars and black holes more comprehensively," said Shy Genel, one of the co-authors of the paper on the Illustris simulation published Wednesday in Nature.
More About the Simulation
The Illustris simulation's starting point is the universe at the age of 12 million years. It goes on to simulate the next 13.8 billion years of evolution, up to the present time.
Complex structures such as galaxies began forming when the universe was 12 million years old, and that's when computer models begin to be required, Genel told TechNewsWorld.
The simulation contains 12 billion visual resolution elements. That wealth of data lets researchers create visual pictures for comparison to images of the known universe, verifying its accuracy.
The simulation models 41,416 galaxies out of the billions of galaxies in the universe. That's a small subset of the total, but the simulation closely matches the rate at which certain types of galaxies develop across the universe as a whole.
Still, the size of the subset means "there is still a lot of room for improvement for future generations of simulations," Genel remarked.
Shedding Light on Illustris
Simulations of the combined evolution of dark matter and dark energy, which include only the force of gravity, have been run successfully for decades, but they cannot predict the distribution of galaxies made up of normal matter.
The Illustris project resolves this by directly accounting for the baryonic component, such as gas, stars and supermassive black holes, in addition to gravity. This offers, in principle, a self-consistent and fully predictive methodology.
The project models a comprehensive set of physical processes such as star-formation-driven galactic winds and black hole thermal energy injection throughout cosmic history.
Evaluating the Simulation
"The work looks like a solid step forward in simulating the universe," James Rhoads, a professor at Arizona State University's School of Earth and Space Exploration, told TechNewsWorld.
"The authors of this study have compared their galaxy shapes at the end of the model evolution to the shapes observed in the nearby universe, and say they are getting it about right," Rhoads continued. "They emphasize particularly that their ability to reproduce spiral galaxy shapes and sizes is a step forward."
However, "a careful reading of the 'looking ahead' section in the Nature paper suggests that their mix of galaxy types when the universe was half its current age might match the observations of that time less well," Rhoads suggested.
"We are following the growth rates of galaxies in our model, and we find that those are rather similar to those of observed galaxies but somewhat too fast," Genel said. "Developing improved models that will be able to get these growth rates in even better agreement with observations is one key aspect on which our team is working these days."
The simulation "is part of the process of understanding the universe," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. Its accuracy "is important for discovering dark matter and preparation for sending out manned space probes."


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BRITISH OPEN: Justin Rose has a chance to win back-to-back majors
GULLANE, Scotland >> A month after winning the U.S. Open, Justin Rose still hasn't settled on an engraver to etch his name into the trophy he brought home from the Merion Golf Club.
But the Englishman already has someone in mind: Garry Harvey, the silversmith who will engrave the name of British Open winner on the claret jug within moments of the final putt dropping Sunday at Muirfield.
"I'm hoping I'll get a two-for-one deal this year," Rose chuckled Wednesday. "With the U.S. Open, you get it done yourself. So I'm hoping I'll get a discount for bulk."
It would be hard to come up with a better finish to what's already been an eventful few weeks for Rose. Since capturing his first major, he's dined with Prime Minister David Cameron, signed hundreds of autographs and watched from the Royal Box as countryman Andy Murray captured the Wimbledon men's singles final.
And just like Murray, who won the U.S. Open last fall, Rose would love to possess both trophies at the same time, a feat only six golfers -- all among the game's greats -- have accomplished in the century-plus history of major championship golf. The roster of that exclusive club speaks to just how tough a task it is: Bobby Jones (twice; 1926 and 1930); Gene Sarazen (1932); Ben Hogan (1953); Lee Trevino (1971); Tom Watson (1982); and Tiger Woods (2000).
"The challenge for me is going to be staying in this tournament, not being dragged back to Merion every five minutes," Rose said.
"If I'm left alone, just me and my caddie, it's pretty easy to focus on what I need to focus on. It's when you have the outside distractions that prevents you from doing that. But when you're playing a tournament, you're in a controlled environment and it's business as usual."
Rose acknowledged there were only so many similarities from a visual standpoint between the rain-soaked Merion course, located in suburban Philadelphia, and surprisingly dry Murfield, a seaside links course on Scotland's eastern coastline.
"They're polar opposite in the sense of how the ball is reacting on the ground, but they're in the sense of strategy. At Merion, I hit a lot of irons off the tee. I played defensively, sort of conservatively, and I felt that was the best way to approach it. ... I was lucky that my game plan turned out to be exactly the right one, with 1-over par winning. That's my challenge this week, to see the golf course the right way and set a game plan that not only keeps me out of trouble," he added, "but is aggressive enough to make the most of the opportunities when they come around.
"So I think for me," Rose summed up, "it's going to be quite a cautious game plan off the tee."
He grew up playing links courses, and nearly set the golf world on its ear by contending at the 1998 British Open as a 17-year-old amateur before slipping back to fourth place.
But Rose's win at the U.S. Open was the first by an Englishman at the tournament since Tony Jacklin in 1970, and it became such a symbol of national pride that it was one of the first things Cameron mentioned when he sat down with U.S. President Barack Obama at the G8 summit in Northern Ireland recently.
"I see a British golfer has just won the United States Open," Cameron needled his golf-loving fellow chief executive.
The win also promoted Rose to the head of the class of a generation of promising countrymen -- Luke Donald, Ian Poulter and Paul Casey, among others -- still in search of a first major win.
"I think it probably makes them even more determined, even more hungry to do it," he said. "I'm sure the boys are looking at it and thinking, 'OK, my turn could be around the corner and just got to persevere."
But they'll have to get by Rose first.
Aside from the occasional celebrity appearance, he's taken the three weeks off, hauling along the U.S. Open trophy to show family and friends and "getting my hunger back." Asked whether the time away from the game might have cost him some sharpness, Rose smiled.
"I'm going to need that time if I'm going to get into contention and have a chance to win on Sunday. That's when the freshness and the break will serve me well. Obviously," he said, "getting there is going to be the hard part."


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It marks the official end of humanity's struggle for survival and the beginning of its quest for a really relaxing afternoon. The first wireless remote, designed by Zenith's Eugene Polley, is essentially a flashlight. When Zenith discovers that direct sunlight also can change channels on the remote-receptive TVs, the company comes out with a model that uses ultrasound; it lasts into the 1980s, to the chagrin of many a family dog. The industry then switches to infrared.
In 1945 Raytheon's Percy Spencer stands in front of a magnetron (the power tube of radar) and feels a candy bar start to melt in his pocket: He is intrigued. When he places popcorn kernels in front of the magnetron, the kernels explode all over the lab. Ten years later Spencer patents a "radar range" that cooks with high-frequency radio waves; that same year, the Tappan Stove Co. introduces the first home microwave model.
Enovid, a drug the FDA approves for menstrual disorders, comes with a warning: The mixture of synthetic progesterone and estrogen also prevents ovulation. Two years later, more than half a million American women are taking Enovid—and not all of them have cramps. In 1960 the FDA approves Enovid for use as the first oral contraceptive.
The Boeing 707-120 debuts as the world's first successful commercial jet airliner, ushering in the era of accessible mass air travel. The four-engine plane carries 181 passengers and cruises at 600 mph for up to 5280 miles on a full tank. The first commercial jet flight takes off from New York and lands in Paris; domestic service soon connects New York and Los Angeles.
There's a reason old windowpanes distort everything: They were made by rapidly squeezing a sheet of red-hot glass between two hot rollers, which produced a cheap but uneven pane. British engineer Alastair Pilkington revolutionizes the process by floating molten glass on a bath of molten tin—by nature, completely flat. The first factory to produce usable float glass opens in 1959; an estimated 90 percent of plate glass is still produced this way.
Black and Decker releases its first cordless drill, but designers can't coax more than 20 watts from its NiCd batteries. Instead, they strive for efficiency, modifying gear ratios and using better materials. The revolutionary result puts new power in the hands of DIYers and—thanks to a NASA contract—the gloves of astronauts.
The Unimate, the first programmable industrial robot, is installed on a General Motors assembly line in New Jersey. Conceived by George C. Devol Jr. to move and fetch things, the invention gets a lukewarm reception in the United States. Japanese manufacturers love it and, after licensing the design in 1968, go on to dominate the global market for industrial robots.
Telstar is launched as the first "active" communications satellite—active as in amplifying and retransmitting incoming signals, rather than passively bouncing them back to Earth. Telstar makes real a 1945 concept by science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke, who envisioned a global communications network based on geosynchronous satellites. Two weeks after Telstar's debut, President Kennedy holds a press conference in Washington, D.C., that is broadcast live across the Atlantic.
Working as a consultant for General Electric, Nick Holonyak develops the light-emitting diode (LED), which provides a simple and inexpensive way for computers to convey information. From their humble beginnings in portable calculators, LEDs spread from the red light that indicates coffee is brewing to the 290-ft.-tall Reuters billboard in Times Square.
Widespread use of remotely piloted aircraft begins during the Vietnam War with deployment of 1000 AQM-34 Ryan Firebees. The first model of these 29-ft.-long planes was developed in just 90 days in 1962. AQM-34s go on to fly more than 34,000 surveillance missions. Their success leads to the eventual development of the Unmanned Aerial Vehicles widely used today.
1962/VIDEO GAMES MIT programmers write Spacewar; 43 years later 89 percent of school-age kids own video games. 1955/POLIO VACCINE The year Jonas Salk finds a way to prevent polio, there are 28,985 global cases; by 2005, the number drops to 1200. 1957/THREE-POINT SEATBELT According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, more than 15,000 American lives are saved in 2005 by Nils Bohlin's device.
The first general purpose COMPUTER, the nearly 30-ton ENIAC (1947), contains 18,000 vacuum tubes, 70,000 resistors and 10,000 capacitors. In 1959, the INTEGRATED CIRCUIT puts those innards on one tiny chip. Before the entire world is networked, there is the ARPANET—four computers linked in 1969. It introduces the concept of "packet switching," which simultaneously delivers messages as short units and reassembles them at their destination. The Apple II, Commodore Pet and Radio Shack's TRS-80 are introduced in 1977—four years before IBM, soon to become synonymous with the term "PC," unveils its PERSONAL COMPUTER. In 1989, Sir Tim Berners-Lee creates "hypertext markup language" (HTML) to make Web pages and the "Uniform Resource Locator" (URL) to identify where information is stored. These breakthroughs form the foundation of the WORLD WIDE WEB.
Robert Moog develops the first electronic synthesizer to make the leap from machine to musical instrument. Moog's device not only generates better sounds than other synthesizers, it can be controlled by a keyboard rather than by punch cards. The subsequent acceptance of electronic music is a crucial step in developing audio technology for computers, cellphones and stereos.
The International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines releases a semi-dwarf, high-yield Indica variety that, in conjunction with high-yield wheat, ushers in the Green Revolution. Indica rice thrives in tropical regions of Asia and South America, raising worldwide production more than 20 percent by 1970.
Randolph Smith and Kenneth House patent a battery-powered smoke detector for home use. Later models rely on perhaps the cheapest nuclear technology you can own: a chunk of americium-241. The element's radioactive particles generate a small electric current. If smoke enters the chamber it disrupts the current, triggering an alarm.
Bell Labs' George Smith and Willard Boyle invent a charge-coupled device (CCD) that can measure light arriving at a rate of just one photon per minute. Smith and Boyle's apparatus allows extremely faint images to be recorded, which is very useful in astronomy. Today, its most noticeable impact is in digital cameras, which rely on CCD arrays containing millions of pixels.
James Russell, a scientist with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, invents the first digital-to-optical recording and playback system, in which sounds are represented by a string of 0s and 1s and a laser reads the binary patterns etched on a photosensitive platter. Russell isn't able to convince the music industry to adopt his invention, but 20 years later, Time Warner and other CD manufacturers pay a $30 million patent infringement settlement to Russell's former employer, the Optical Recording Co.
Bill Bowerman, the track coach at the University of Oregon, sacrifices breakfast for peak performance when he pours rubber into his wife's waffle iron, forming lightweight soles for his athletes' running shoes. Three years later, Bowerman's company, Nike, introduces the Waffle Trainer, which is an instant hit.
1962 Computer Mouse
"I don't know why we call it a mouse. It started that way, and we never changed it." —Doug Engelbart, engineer, Stanford Research Institute, 1968
1969 Automated Teller Machine
"On Sept. 2, our bank will open at 9:00 and never close again!" —Long Island branch of Chemical Bank, advertisement from 1969
1973 Cellphone
"Joel, I'm calling you from a real cellular phone." —Martin Cooper, leader of Motorola's cellphone team, to Joel Engel, research head of rival AT&T's Bell Labs, April 3, 1973
1978 In-Vitro Fertilization
"We'd love to have children of our own one day. That would be such a dream come true." —Louise Brown Mullinder, the first test-tube baby, on her wedding day, in 2003
1979 Sony Walkman
"This is the product that will satisfy those young people who want to listen to music all day." —Akio Morita, Sony Chairman, February 1979
From easy-on shoes to lighter tennis rackets and stronger planes, revolutionary materials have changed our lives.
In 1955, Patent No. 2,717,437 is issued to George de Mestral for VELCRO, a fabric inspired by burrs that stick to his dog's fur. In 1961 researchers in Japan develop high-quality CARBON-FIBER COMPOSITES, capping a decade of experimentation with plastics reinforced by carbon fibers. Thanks to DuPont's Stephanie Kwolek and Herbert Blades, who in 1965 invent a high-strength polymer called KEVLAR, the body armor of 2920 police and correctional officers has protected them from fatal attacks. The term "FIBEROPTIC" is coined in 1956, but it isn't until 1970 that scientists at Corning produce a fiber of ultrapure glass that transmits light well enough to be used for telecommunications.
Chrysler paves the way for the era of electronic—rather than mechanical—advances in automobiles with the electronic ignition. It leads to electronic control of ignition timing and fuel metering, harbingers of more sophisticated systems to come. Today, these include electronic control transmission shift points, antilock brakes, traction control systems, steering and airbag deployment.
Everyone agrees that magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a brilliant invention—but no one agrees on who invented it. The physical effect that MRIs rely on—nuclear magnetic resonance—earns various scientists Nobel Prizes for physics in 1944 and 1952. Many believe that Raymond Damadian establishes the machine's medical merit in 1973, when he first uses magnetic resonance to discern healthy tissue from cancer. Yet, in 2003, the Nobel Prize for medicine goes to Peter Lauterbur and Peter Mansfield for their "seminal discoveries." The topic of who is the worthiest candidate remains hotly debated.
The first satellite in the modern Navstar Global Positioning System (GPS) is launched. (The GPS's precursor, TRANSIT, was developed in the early 1960s to guide nuclear subs.) It is not until the year 2000, though, that President Clinton grants nonmilitary users access to an unscrambled GPS signal. Now, cheap, handheld GPS units can determine a person's location to within 3 yards.
By moving the needle of the scanning tunneling microscope (STM) across a surface and monitoring the electric current that flows through it, scientists can map a surface to the level of single atoms. The STM is so precise that it not only looks at atoms—it also can manipulate them into structures. The microscope's development earns IBM researchers Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer a Nobel Prize and helps launch the emerging era of nanotechnology.
Molecular biologist Alec Jeffreys devises a way to make the analysis of more than 3 billion units in the human DNA sequence much more manageable by comparing only the parts of the sequence that show the greatest variation among people. His method quickly finds its way into the courts, where it is used to exonerate people wrongly accused of crimes and to finger the true culprits.
1958/LASER BEAM Whitens teeth, removes tattoos, corrects vision, scans groceries, tracks missiles. 1978/GENETIC ENGINEERING Produces insulin, creates vaccines, clones sheep, increases shelf life of tomatoes, manipulates human cells to prevent disease. 1958/SUPER GLUE Repairs a broken taillight, reassembles a vase, strengthens knots on a hammock, closes wounds, lifts fingerprints.
Over the past 50 years, a few pivotal medical discoveries have helped to boost adult life expectancy dramatically.
In 1956, Wilson Greatbatch grabs the wrong resistor and connects it to a device he is building to record heartbeats. When the circuit emits a pulse, he realizes the device can be used to control the beat; in 1960 the first PACEMAKER is successfully implanted in a human. Rene Favaloro performs the first CORONARY BYPASS SURGERY in 1967, taking a length of vein from a leg and grafting it onto the coronary artery. This allows blood to flow around the blocked section. Thanks in part to these advances, the number of deaths from heart disease declines in the U.S. by almost 50 percent. The outlook for people infected by HIV also dramatically changes. The FDA approves Invirase, the first of a class of drugs called HIV PROTEASE INHIBITORS, in 1995. By blocking the function of enzymes used in the virus's replication, the inhibitors can reduce HIV to undetectable levels for sustained periods in up to 90 percent of patients.
Biochemist Kary Mullis invents a technique that exploits enzymes in order to make millions of copies of a tiny scrap of DNA quickly and cheaply. No matter how small or dried-out a bloodstain is, forensic scientists can now gather enough genetic material to do DNA fingerprinting. With PCR, doctors also can search for trace amounts of HIV genetic code to diagnose infection much sooner than by conventional methods.
Prozac becomes the first in a new class of FDA-approved antidepressants called "selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors," which block the reabsorption of the mood-elevating neurotransmitter serotonin, thereby prolonging its effects. Though at times controversial, Prozac helps patients cope with clinical depression, reshaping our understanding of how personality and emotion can be chemically controlled. Within five years, 4.5 million Americans are taking Prozac—making it the most widely accepted psychiatric drug ever.
Scientist Craig Venter announces that his company will sequence the entire human genome in just three years and for only $300 million—12 years and $2 billion less than a federally funded project established to do the same thing. Venter uses a method called "shotgun sequencing" to make automated gene sequencers, instead of relying on the laborious approach used by the government program. The result is an acrimonious race to the finish, which ends in a tie. Both groups announce the completion of the human genome sequence in papers published in 2001.
Depending on who you ask, the MP3 is either the end of civilization (record companies) or the dawn of a new world (everyone else). The Korean company Saehan introduces its MPMan in 1998, long before Apple asks, "Which iPod are you?" When the Diamond Rio hits the shelves a few months later, the Recording Industry Association of America sues—providing massive publicity and a boost to digital technology.
The geniuses at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers publish a wireless metropolitan area network standard that functions like Wi-Fi on steroids. An 802.16 antenna can transmit Internet access up to a 30-mile radius at speeds comparable to DSL and cable broadband. When it all shakes out, 802.16 could end up launching developing nations into the digital age by eliminating the need for wired telecommunications infrastructure.
With 196 million licensed drivers in the U.S., a little automotive innovation can conserve a whole lot of oil.
The fuel cell goes back more than 150 years, and the first FUEL CELL VEHICLE—a 20-hp tractor—is built in 1959. But it isn't until 1993 that a Canadian company, Ballard Power Systems, demonstrates the first zero-emissions fuel cell bus. Since then, progress toward an economically viable fuel cell car has remained slow but steady. Likewise, Ferdinand Porsche wins his class at the 1902 Exelberg Hill-Climb in Austria in a front-wheel-drive HYBRID-ELECTRIC CAR. But it is almost a century later, in 1997, that Toyota surprises its rivals by unveiling the hybrid Prius to Japanese consumers. It takes nearly three years for the Prius to reach North America.
PM's Panel Of Experts
TO SELECT THE 50 most pioneering inventions of the past 50 years, PM consulted 25 authorities at 17 museums and universities across the country. Their collective expertise spans aeronautics, biology, physics, medicine, automobiles and technology. An initial call for suggestions resulted in a list of 100 inventions, which was then circulated for a formal vote and reduced via a points system determined by each expert's top picks. Any such list is open to debate, of course.
Dennis Bateman
Carnegie Science Center
Pittsburgh, PA
Dag Spicer
Computer History Museum
Mountain View, CA
Matilda McQuaid
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
New York, NY
Trevor Pinch
Kathleen Vogel
Cornell University, Department of Science and Technology Studies
Ithaca, NY
Paul Doherty
San Francisco, CA
Blake Andres
Great Lakes Science Center
Cleveland, OH
Jennie Holladay
The Henry Ford Museum
Dearborn, MI
Stephen Cutcliffe
John Kenly Smith
Lehigh University, Science, Technologyand Society Program
Bethlehem, PA
Emlyn Koster
Liberty Science Center
Jersey City, NJ
Amy Lowen
Louisville Science Center
Louisville, KY
Robin Doty
Cheryl Wojciechowski
Museum of Science
Boston, MA
Victoria Harden
Sarah Leavitt
Office of National Institutes of Health History
Bethesda, MD
Marilyn Johnson
Anders Liljeholm
Craig Reed
Oregon Museum of Science and Industry
Portland, OR
David Weil
San Diego Computer Museum
San Diego, CA
John Anderson
Peter Jakab
Roger Launius
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
Washington, D.C.
Brad Osgood
Stanford University, Science, Technology and Society Program
Palo Alto, CA
Greg Brown
Tech Museum of Innovation
San Jose, CA
Sourced & published by Henry Sapiecha


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