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If she has a particularly good restaurant meal, she'll slip the chef her card and invite him to call if he's looking for a new job. "Rush Presbyterian in Chicago," she said with dreamy covetousness, "has a pastry chef." Then, there's the you-get-to-have-a-life factor. Mr. Vorstenbosch, who has a wife and baby son, doesn't have to work the traditional nights-and-weekends restaurant schedule. So how was the food? Spectacular. We had pork tenderloin dusted with chipotle chili, salmon with cucumber slaw, beef tenderloin with Chianti sauce, braised short ribs with smoked gouda grits, and best of all – I wish I had some now – wild mushroom enchiladas. It was all better than anything I had eaten in the previous month. Well, nobody wants to go to the hospital.
Auto Mercedes Shows Off 40 MPG Vision GLK BlueTec Hybrid Concept
It looks like German automakers are really stepping up their efforts in the realm of diesel-electric hybrid vehicles. Over the past two weeks, DailyTech has brought you information on the Volkswagen Golf Hybrid which achieves an astonishing 69 MPG. BMW soon followed with its Vision EfficientDynamics hybrid concept vehicle (based on the X5 Sport Activity Vehicle) which achieves 36 MPG. Mercedes-Benz is now stepping into the diesel-electric hybrid fray with the Vision GLK BlueTec Hybrid concept. As its name implies, the vehicle is based on the upcoming GLK compact SUV which will do battle with the BMW X3, Infiniti EX35 and the Audi Q5. The vehicle will slot under the mid-size ML SUV. In concept form, the GLK BlueTec Hybrid the uses the mild hybrid system co-developed with BMW -- the hybrid components are also used in the BMW Vision EfficientDynamics concept.
DeepLinks Archives, February 2008
Fouad Mourtada is the net user tortured and sentenced to three years jail for putting up a joke Facebook entry of a Moroccan prince. Join the protests on 2PM Saturday in Washington, London, Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, Montreal, and Madrid. Lobby Groups Oppose Plans for EU Copyright ExtensionWikinews interviews EFF's European team, and ORG's Becky Hogge about plans to extend copyright in Europe. ISP Voluntary / Mandatory FilteringComprehensive list of state-determined censorship systems in the West, by country. UK Filesharing Law 'Unworkable'Experts say human rights, privacy laws and technical hurdles stand against the UK government's plans to force ISPs to spy on their customers for rightsholders. Australian Judge: Code Trumps LawNot if you craft law to work with the realities of code. Europe Spies on ItselfA round-up across Europe of how governments spy on their own citizens.
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Imagine a state-of-the-art environmental, cultural and entertainment center on the shores of Lake Red Rock, a place to spend a day or a week, with a focus on the Des Moines River watershed. That is the hope of a consortium of educators, conservationists and state and federal agencies, and the groups have been staging a series of informational meetings to unveil their plans. One such presentation was held at the Newton DMACC campus on Wednesday morning.The Cordova Center, an estimated $50 million project along the northern shores of Lake Red Rock, would create an interactive, multi-use learning center near the park's existing observation tower, as well as an outdoor amphitheater, additional cabins, a larger picnic area and an extension to the lake's Volksweg Trail.The partners, including the Marion County Conservation Board, U.S.
Vapps, Inc. Launches High-Definition, Fixed-Price, All-You-Can-Talk ...
NEW YORK, Oct. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Vapps, Inc., the leading provider of Internet-based audio conferencing technology and services worldwide, today announced the beta launch of HighSpeed Conferencing, the first technology that enables Internet users (VoIP) and telephone or cellular phone users to participate in the same conference in high-definition audio quality. Vapps, which has been on the cutting edge of VoIP technology, has engineered a product that will accept communication from a computer, land-line or cell phone and maintain very high quality audio that will be preserved on the other side of the call. This conferencing service, the only high-definition audio conferencing solution in the industry, also offers flat rates with unlimited usage over the Internet, including Skype, and is available now at www.highspeedconferencing.com.
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Between the Lines Latest Post | Last 10 Posts | Archives Check out Enterprise Alley Posted in: General Innovation Programming note: We've launched a new blog called Enterprise Alley that's designed to give a forum to startups that are targeting the businesses with new and novel technology and approaches. The blog, manned by Dennis Howlett, is designed to give some play to startups that are targeting the enterprise. These smaller companies are worth watching for a few reasons: They are on the cutting edge of business technology; They may yield some new uses that can improve your ROI; They may wind up in your existing applications as the bigger fish gobble up some of these smaller players. Here's what Dennis had to say in his introduction: While the technology landscape seems dominated by the mega vendors churning out ERP with the occasional splash of saas/on-demand, in the background there is a plenty of innovation and experimentation.
Illegal visitors cost Australia $20m in airfares
TAXPAYERS spent more than $20 million on airfares for 5000 people who broke Australia's immigration rules and were kicked out last year. Tourists who overstayed their visas, people who breached working conditions and students who failed their courses were among those deported. Almost 1600 tourists who had overstayed were put in detention centres before being deported. Department of Immigration and Citizenship figures, compiled for The Sunday Mail, show 5056 people had their airfares funded, and where required had escorts, at an average cost of $4081 each. Airfares were only a portion of the detention-and-removal costs billed to deportees, and just a fraction of the cost is recovered by the Department each year. "In 2006-07, DIAC recovered $902,159 from people who had previously been removed from Australia," a Department spokesman said.
Man trapped in grain bin dies
Emergency personnel tried to rescue a Tonica man trapped in a Utica soybean bin Friday morning but were unable to save his life.
Harold Paul Beenenga, 56, was working at Utica Elevator and helping load a semi when the accident occurred around 9 a.m. It remained unclear how Beenenga became trapped.
However, Utica police chief Joe Bernardoni said Beenenga and co-worker Jerry Carey had portable radios and had been communicating back and forth, but lost contact while Beenenga was in the bin, approximately 10 feet off the ground by Bernardoni's estimate. Workers called into the bin trying to get a response from Beenenga, but there was no reply or sign of life.
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Winds shifting in the debate over education
Listening to Jones testify on HB 881, I am suddenly aware that, indeed, the center of gravity on the education debate has shifted. No longer are we stuck on inputs and debate about how one government can best grow another, which the input set chooses to define as "local control." "It is a unique opportunity," Jones says of her bill establishing a state commission to grant charters, along with a fairer funding model. "This enhances local control by letting the consumer decide. To narrowly define local control [as] government monoply control does a disservice to Georgia." And to children who either drop out or struggle through bad schools that show no promise of improving. Permalink | Comments (188) | Post your comment | Categories: Column .
YouTube Increases Upload Limits, Provides Batch Uploader
YouTube announced yesterday that it had increased the size limit for videos to 1 GB, and also introduced new software that allows users to simultaneously upload multiple videos. Users may still opt to upload their videos to the site through the browser form if they do not wish to put a piece of YouTube software on their hard drives, or in the case of Mac users, if the software isn't supported at all. .
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Mass grave containing 100 bodies found in Iraq
U.S. military said on Saturday. The Iraqi security forces discovered the site of the mass grave on Friday, and initial reports said it may contain the remains of100 badly decomposed bodies, the military said in a statement sent to Xinhua by email. "The skeletal remains appear to have been in the grave for along time," the statement said. The U.S. military said that they have not yet determined who might be responsible for the killing and burial, and that the grave site is currently being investigated. Diyala province, which stretches from eastern edges of Baghdad to the Iranian border, has long been the stronghold of al-Qaida militant groups and hotbed of insurgency and sectarian violence since the U.S.-led invasion broke out in 2003.
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