Top cable companies try reining in heavy web use

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Top U.S. cable operators Comcast Corp and Time Warner Cable Inc will begin testing ways this week to limit individual subscribers who use the largest amount of Internet capacity in an effort to protect their high-speed networks.

Obama makes history with nomination

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Barack Obama captured the Democratic presidential nomination on Tuesday, capping a rapid rise from political obscurity to become the first black to lead a major U.S. party into a race for the White House.

Water 4 Gas - Hydrogen Conversion Made Really Simple and Safe For Automobiles

Ok, I have to confess I was extremely skeptical the first time I came across hydrogen car conversion, but but due to the plague of rising gas prices, I knew I had to do something drastic! I decided to give it a serious, second look since other conversions had never worked for me in the past. I began to study the mechanism of its workings since I am a science buff. The startling thing was, this actually was logical and made a great deal of sense. I even shot the website to a couple friends that are physicists and they confirmed that this conversion technology had all of the basis for being effective. They actually got there hands on the actual conversion manual before me and appeared to be much more excited than I was.

Death From the Window (Chapter Two, To - "The Last Plantation")

The December frost was over Fayetteville, and even more so on its outskirts, where the three plantations were, where the Abernathy, Stanley and Wallace Plantations resided; from twilight on the Wallace plantation was pretty quiet, its owners resting, or preparing to go to bed. Wally was awake in the living room this evening, by the hearth, rubbing his hands together, feeling the warmth of the heat on his balding head, glowing and heating up the rugs his bare feet stood on, making his white milky skin a pinkish red, and there he stood, stood erect, silently stood listening to sounds of the flickering flames, coming off the dry wood in the health; the old man, Wally Wallace, 81-years old, felt younger than he should have, perhaps his nineteen-year old lover, made him feel that way.

CORRECTED: Hillary Clinton defiant in face of loss

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hillary Clinton refused to surrender to Barack Obama in the Democratic race for the U.S. presidency on Tuesday or to acknowledge she had reached the end of the road in her bid for the White House.

Am I an Expert - I Don't Know

I wouldn't call me an expert, I'd call me addicted to classic American cars, and muscle cars, I don't really know if that makes me an expert or not, but I have a lot of fun talking about muscle cars, and classic American cars, I enjoy helping people get their cars restored, rather I show them how to do it themselves, or help them locate a reputable shop to do the work. It just makes me feel good to know that I may help save a car from rotting in the back yard, or getting hauled to the wrecking yard, I love to see a happy camper after they get their car restored, and their showing it off to all of their friends and relatives, it's good that some people still care enough to see the big picture when it comes to cars.

North America tomato industry reeling: growers

MIAMI (Reuters) - Florida's tomato industry is in "complete collapse" and growers in California and Mexico are having trouble selling their crops as U.S. regulators hunt the source of a salmonella outbreak linked to certain tomato varieties, growers said on Tuesday.

Oil zooms nearly 9 percent higher to record $139

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil jumped nearly 9 percent to a record $139 a barrel on Friday, extending a two-day rally to more than $16 as the slumping U.S. dollar and mounting tensions between Israel and Iran attracted a stampede of buyers.

Becoming a Chef - Get Ready to Pay Your Dues

The most common misconception is that you come out of cooking school and you are a 'chef". That is far from true! You have to slug it out, build a repertoire, put up with low pay, long hours, abuse from co workers and your head chef. Not to forget the burns, cuts, lack of social life with possibly no holidays or weekends off. In most cases, you'll average about 12 dollars an hour and benefits may or may not exist. Be sure that your feet will hurt and your back will be sore. The moment you end your shift and finally step into your room, all you going to do is just drop onto bed completely exhausted. But, you will be learning many new knowledge, developing your speed and techniques, tasting and creativity, and hopefully finding your own style along the way. However, all these achievements do not happen overnight. Always remember to do it for your passion and your love of food and the learning. The fact is, it is going to be a trade off for a normal life.

Red Tail Lights - How to Increase Your Safety and Visibility While Driving

Did you ever wonder why most cars in the roads today have red tail lights? Despite the diversity of choices for tail lights, most of the cars still use the conventional rear light color - the red shade. So why use red when there are blue, green, yellow, smoked, and even transparent lights? Well, there could be several reasons for that; and the topmost grounds for using the red tinted tail light is its efficacy in maintaining road safety. Red tail lights have indeed earned the highest popularity of rear light colors - or so the reviews say. No matter what your car is, safety issues that are out of your car's limit can only be provided to you by drivers who follow the basic principles of driving. If you encounter a reckless driver along the road, your safety is threatened no matter how highly technological your car is. In reality, nothing can save you from the most perilous of roads. Highways and other steep roads can put a threat in your life. Moreover, dark roads or areas with dim lights pose a hazard in your life.

Beneath a Gibbous Moon (Cockfight)(Story Twentyone, "Voices Out of Saigon")

This is a story about death, written by a robust sixty-year old man who had his fights in life over death, seemingly an imminent road we all have to go down, and not return to our heroic days here on earth, leaving youth and vitality behind. But a live dog is better than a dead lion, or so they say? And added into the stories of this book "Voices out of Saigon," the author adds a moment at a real cockfight, which he has been to many, as well as bullfights, boxing matches, and other combat sports, and we can add war, Vietnam. This is life engaged, a tremendous adventure, where in the crowed you hear the whispers, and the roars, devoted human beings to their sport. Here is a sport equal to any, and in some cases beyond most.

Gas Buddy - A Solution to Gas Dependency

We are all feeling the pinch of the high gas prices. We all been a gas buddy to help us either gain mileage on our cars and reduce the amount of money paid out each month to continue using our cars. Personally, I thought that this day would never come in my life, a day when I would take my car to the gas station and see that gas prices are at a record high of $4.00 per gallon. Let me repeat that again. $4.00 per gallon. Who would have thought that these prices were even possible? And to make it even worse, the price is not stopping with leading policy makers saying that prices will get even higher in the next month and will hit a new high of $5.00 per gallon. At $5.00 dollars a gallon more than ever we need a gas buddy.

Get More Advantage by Consuming Your Daily Fruits

The very first if you had your own idea to buy some fruit in the market, you must picky every time you put down your selecting fruit on your basket. Make sure to see the form of the fruit closely, it will easily to notice which one is the fresh one. Don't make your own decision to buy some, make sure you bring friends or family to ask the advice. The big one isn't always good, why? There are some case connecting to this matter, we usually pick the big one while we taking them to our basket. The big one had the health measure of its fruit visit here for more details. Once you get home, you are to put them all on the water to wash them from virus or toxin that lay around on the skin of fruit. Wash it if necessary by using some special soap for eliminate the virus from its fruit. Usually it'll take the fruits look cleaner. That tip was I've been applied in my life, you know we must extra care to buy something [daily food] from greengrocer or outdoor market, if it doesn't work properly at

Blog warnings posted ahead of Tokyo knife rampage

TOKYO (Reuters) - A man arrested for killing seven people in a knife rampage on a crowded Tokyo shopping street posted dozens of warning messages on the Internet in the hours leading up to the attack, Japanese media reported on Monday.

Air Force shakeup may spur spending shifts

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The ouster of the Air Force's top two officials may spur even more Pentagon spending on equipment for current wars and end production of pricey F-22 jets designed for potential conflicts with countries such as China.

Car Tail Lights - New Innovations to Keep You Safe

Mounted on the rear of a motor vehicle are a series of lights known as car taillights. These lights usually come standard with every vehicle and are a requirement by law. The main purpose of this lighting is to make the car visible to other drivers who may be traveling behind them, and to increase the brightness whenever a car is stopping or slowing down. Most standard taillights come in red in order to keep from blinding or impairing the vision of the drivers that are behind the car that has them. The reason that they are an important feature to any motor vehicle is because they not only provide safety for the other drivers, but also for the vehicle owner. They cut down on the possibility of rear end collisions and other accidents. Any vehicle found to be operating with broken or malfunctioning rear lights may be pulled over by an officer of the law. It is illegal to drive any vehicle with broken rear taillights. To cut down on the risk of getting pulled over, it is a good idea to replace any broken taillights immediately.

TV, guns, fridges - prisoner had it all

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - With a plasma TV, a DVD player, $172,000 in cash, gym equipment, two refrigerators and a couple of guns, Genilson Lino da Silva had everything he needed for a luxurious life -- in his Brazilian prison cell.

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How To Get Type Approval In Indonesia

Every telecommunication equipment, that want to be distributed in Indonesia must received Indonesia's regulatory certification - called type approval - / - Homologation - / - Compliance - /- Certificate - for import, sale, or connection to public telecommunication networks.Type approval is very important to ensure that the device could be use through out Indonesia. Every country has their own policy (For example : Electricity capacity, Frequency range, etc).Without type approval, there are possibility that some devices might enter Indonesia but couldn't function and operate properly. This would cause a big loss for manufacturer who are interested in entering Indonesian market. That is why every country has their own regulation in type approval so they could make sure every devices which enter their country could work properly without causing any interference in their own policy or public networks.

Interview with Gini Anding, Author of Witness by the Church

"Witness by the Church" is Gini Anding's latest book starring food critic Amy Page and French investigator Jean-Michel Jolivet, passionate lovers living together in Paris. In each "Witness" novel, Amy is the key-yet unwitting-witness to a crime. Unlike most mystery novels starring a female lead, Amy isn't an amateur sleuth and never sets out to help the police. In "Witness by the Church," Amy doesn't realize she holds the key clue to a major crime, until she becomes the target of several botched assassination attempts. While Amy is the primary witness to the mystery at hand in each novel, she also serves as the reader's witness to certain cultural, historical, geographic and culinary particulars and events," Anding says. "Everything in my novels is meticulously researched and documented. A good read should be entertaining without sacrificing the facts."

GM to close four plants, may unload Hummer

WILMINGTON, Del (Reuters) - General Motors Corp said on Tuesday it is closing four truck plants employing 10,000 workers and could sell its Hummer brand in a rushed response to higher gasoline prices that the largest U.S. automaker now sees as a permanent threat to its business.

As layoffs bite Wall St, New York real estate hit

NEW YORK (Reuters) - While most of the United States has suffered a housing slump over the past two years, home prices in New York's Manhattan have been largely unscathed, propped up by demand from Wall Street bankers and the island's limited housing supply.

McCain blasts Obama, breaks with Bush on energy

KENNER, Louisiana (Reuters) - Republican John McCain launched his November election campaign for the White House on Tuesday with a searing attack on Democratic rival Barack Obama and a pledge to break with the energy policies of the Bush administration.

Black Boy (Richard Wright's) Development From Childhood Innocence And Daring Curiosity To Writing

Richard Wright born on a Plantation at Mississippi, the son of Nathaniel Wright, an illiterate sharecropper,who was born shortly before 1880 to Nathaniel Wright, a freed slave who farmed a plot of land given to him at the end of the Civil War and Ella Wilson, a schoolteacher who was born in 1883 and got married to Nathan in 1907 despite her parent's disapproval.Wright's life conformed to the stock pattern of the American success myth which was harsh and filled with hunger and fear. He moved from impoverished and educationally barren early years to legendary achievements as a favored literary touchstone and ancestor figure who gained distinction as an African-American author of powerful, socially-conscious even if sometimes controversial novels, short stories and non-fiction. this article recalls the earliest life of Richard Wright from childhood onto fifth grade or thereabout.

Centennial Salutes To The Birth, Growth And Development Of Richard Wright As A Writer

This is an introduction to a series of articles that I should be writing and publishing to join the celebration of the CENTENNIAL of the birth of RICHARD WRIGHT. I have for long been touched by the literary excellence of Black Boy of all Richard Wright's work which I have had a reading, teaching experience of spanning almost thirty years. A period in which I have kept wondering as to what makes it such a wonderful representation of a writer and at the same time remain a lively, gripping, intriguing, and illuminating read almost throughout the pages. That this year is the Centennial of his birth which is being marked deservedly well with many literary events I thought that it could be the must needed catalyst to propel me into putting my thoughts, reflections and recollections of this ever-present Black Boy in print.

How Green is Your Telephone?

In business, pressing the flesh, meeting people face-to-face, and commuting long distances, especially by car and jet, all once mundane activities are now having global consequences. Economists are hard at work calculating the carbon footprints left by casual car trips to supermarkets. Environmentalists are fuming over a recent commercial flight that carried only five passengers from the States to London, saying the trip was "criminal" based on its deposits of ice crystals in the atmosphere and unabashed fuel guzzling. Which leads us to the all important question: How can we make our companies "greener," both by lessening harmful environmental impacts and by ringing the cash register? The answer is as close as your desk and your purse or pocket. It's that technology that is now more than 100 years young: the telephone, says this top speaker, international consultant, best-selling author, and popular radio and TV commentator.

Batman - The Dark Knight

"It's not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me." Batman tells Rachel Dawes and the story of the dark knight unfolds in the heart of the perennial darkness that has been haunting Gotham. One of the greatest superheroes of the century, Batman is quite different in many ways from the other famous characters of publisher DC Comics, and even Marvel Comics for that matter. A caped crusader, Batman is about Bruce Wayne's fight with his own fear that kept him awake at night, and the death of his parents at the hands of a ruthless Gotham City street criminal. Contrary to popular belief, Batman is not driven by a burning desire for revenge, but rather by the desire to deliver justice. But make no mistake, Batman is indeed out to rid society, and the streets of Gotham City, of every conceivable evil.

Light In Seattle (A Short Story)

I think she wanted revenge, an eye for an eye, for some undisrupted pain her husband inflicted on her, or perhaps it goes deeper into her childhood, I'll never know, but whatever I said meant very little, on and during our trip from Minnesota to Miles City, Montana, onto Seattle, Washington, in our 1957- Chrysler, Jeff purchased from my mother for this trip. We got stranded in Miles City for a day, blew a piston in the motor, had to leave the car there, right in Miles City. Had to let the car roll down the mountain, slowly, and it was cold, snow up to our ankles, and Jeff's wife, who we didn't plan on coming with us, came at the last minute, decided at the last second to punish us all, and she brought her two kids along, I was emptier than a dry well in the Moabite desert for words when I saw this uncovering.

Fortune and Freedom - The Entrepreneur's Guide to Success by Jim Hirshfield - Book Review

Any budding entrepreneur with questions about a business dilemma or how to balance personal and business life will find some tried-and-true, applicable wisdom in Jim Hirshfield's new book, "Fortune and Freedom: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Success." Hirshfield's qualifications include an MBA from Harvard and 26-years experience as the CEO of a cable company he founded. "Fortune and Freedom" outshines the myriad of other available business self-help books because it's about how to have a good life and enjoy the financial freedom of entrepreneurship, not a get- rich-quick scheme. "Fortune and Freedom" takes the stance that the business aspects of one's life cannot be separated from the rest of life, so it provides essential advice for how to effectively manage one's time to succeed across the board. "Fortune and Freedom" will also teach readers how to prepare themselves to own and run a business, how to decide how their project should be financed, how to find the right deal, how to negotiate and much more.