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FAA writing rules for electric aircraft, to allow public to fly them in the next decade

There are those in the general aviation community who think electric planes are the future for private aircraft, but regulatory hurdles are in place preventing them from proliferating in our skies. You see, current FAA requirements for light sport aircraft (LSA) -- planes that can be flown by anyone with a pilot's license -- preclude electric powerplants, and that makes such planes unavailable to most private pilots. Well, today at the CAFE Electric Aircraft Symposium, FAA analyst Tom Gunnarson delivered some good news for flying EV advocates, stating that the FAA has completed its regulatory study on electric aircraft, and the rulemaking process will begin soon. Once those rules have been written, electrically-propelled aircraft will be available for use as LSA by the public, which isn't possible today given their current status as experimental craft. The bad news? Governmental wheels spin slowly, and Gunnarson said that incorporating those new rules into the current regulatory framework will take five years if we're lucky, but ten years is a more likely time frame for the FAA to finish. In the meantime, you'll have to settle for air shows or terrestrial transport to get your EV fix.

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Exclusive 'Battleship' Clip Sneak Peek: 'Light It Up'

Listen, we already know that you're going to check out "MTV First: Battleship" this coming Monday, April 30 at 7:56 p.m. ET on MTV. We're premiering an exclusive clip from "Battleship" and then sitting down with Taylor Kitsch, Alexander Skarsgård, Rihanna and Brooklyn Decker at MTV.com immediately after, so of course you're going to. But [...]

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The Postal Service Shipped This Guy's Package Across the Country Twice for No Reason [Packages]

This fellow wanted to have something shipped to his house in LA. It started off in Union City, California. Should have only taken a few days, right? Try two weeks—because USPS sent it across the entire continent. Twice. More »

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Matthew McConaughey & Camila Alves To Wed In Brazil

Matthew McConaughey & Camila Alves To Wed In Brazil

Matthew Mcconaughey and his model fiance Camila Alves are planning to tie the knot in an exotic ceremony in the model’s native country of Brazil. [...]

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Discover more, search more, and get notified more with updated Twitter for iPhone

Twitter for iPhone isn't your early adopter, power user app. It's not designed fro the gadget nerd with tons of followers who engages in non-stop repartees with like-minded friends, peers, and colleagues all day. It for the new mainstream Twitter user who has very few followers, follows tons of celebrities, and is looking for more and better ways to find something... anything... to do on Twitter. Like it or not, since the last redesign, that's the the official Twitter app's target user now. And that's who they're improving things for with this update.

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Android Gaming Tablet Looks Remarkably Similar to Sony PSP

The wonderful thing about Android is that it can be installed on almost any device. But the bad thing about Android is that it can land in hardware of questionable pedigree -- like a portable gaming system that looks remarkably similar to the product of another company.

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Is it really an iPad 4G if it can't connect to a 4G network?

In Australia, Apple is defending the 4G designation on its new iPad, despite complaints from the?Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.

In Australia, Apple brands its top-selling tablet the "iPad Wifi + 4G," a designation that seems to imply that the device will connect to a 4G signal. But as the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission recently pointed out, the iPad is not actually compatible with any of the 4G networks down under. This week, the issue made its way to an Australian federal court, which will decide whether or not Apple misled consumers.?

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According to the Australian newspaper, Apple has already agreed to issue refunds to shoppers who expected the new iPad to connect to the 4G network provided by local provider Telstra. But the company promised to fight the allegations from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, and refused to remove the 4G moniker from the device.?

The phrase 4G, Apple said in a statement, "conveys to consumers in Australia that the iPad with WiFi + 4G will deliver a superior level of service in terms of data transfer speed (consistent with accepted industry and regulatory use of that term), and not that the iPad with WiFi + 4G is compatible with any particular network technology promoted by a particular mobile service provider in Australia."

In other words, 4G is not a matter of any specific network, but a matter of speed.?

In a smart post over at ZD Net, Zack Whittaker breaks down the reason the iPad won't work on 4G networks outside the US and Canada.?

The new iPad, he writes, only works "on the 700Mhz and the 2100Mhz bands of the mobile spectrum. Other countries have already allocated their wireless spectrum to other things ? like in the UK, the 700Mhz band is reserved for free-to-air digital Freeview television, and similarly in Australia, the band is used for analogue television.?UK customers are doubly out of luck, because the wireless spectrum designated for?4G LTE services hasn?t been divided up yet."?

So that being said, do you believe Apple has a duty to rebrand the iPad in the Australian and European markets? Drop us a line in the comments section.?

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King Street Cats: Consider Fostering Homeless or Acclimating ...

Kitten season is upon us, and that means?

the need for foster homes escalates rapidly. ?

King Street Cats had a local shelter contact us re. fostering?

5 (FIVE) different sets?of mamas and their babies this past week! ?

I came across a great article the other day?

that I thought I would share with you.

After reading this article, if you are interested in fostering,?

or have more questions,

please don't hesitate to drop us a note at Contact@KingStreetCats.org.

If you have fostered, share your experience(s)?

in the comments section below!

Why consider fostering, at a glance:

• Most shelters and rescues across the country have a need for pet foster families willing to temporarily house and care for homeless animals.
• Foster homes are needed for many different reasons, including overcrowded shelters, for pets with special needs (including medical), for kittens and puppies too young for adoption, for pets with a very low tolerance for shelter life, and for animals with little or no experience living in a home or with people.
• Pets do better in foster homes than shelters. They are less stressed and less likely to develop fear-based behavior problems. Their foster family can more easily evaluate their true temperament. They often receive help to improve physical, emotional or behavioral issues. They can be socialized to a wide range of home situations involving children and other pets. Animals who?ve been abused can learn to trust people again.
• What you can expect if you foster a pet will depend to a great extent on the type of pet you help and the circumstances the animal has lived in up to the point he enters your home. Some animals require a minimum of time and energy, while others will need a lot of time and attention to help them improve their chances for adoption.
• The easiest, fastest way to get connected to a pet fostering program is to contact your local animal shelter or breed rescue group.

If you're interested in making a real hands-on difference in the lives of homeless pets,?there are many ways to help, depending on your time, resources and talents.

Many people volunteer at their local animal shelter for a certain number of hours each week or month. Other people have pets in need come to them, instead, by serving as foster families for animals awaiting adoption. The need for pet foster parents varies by location. Pets are fostered for lots of different reasons, including: ??????? An overflowing shelter ??????? An animal with special needs ? she might be pregnant or nursing, or recovering from an injury, illness, or surgery ??????? A kitten or puppy still too young to be adopted ??????? A pet showing significant stress-related behavior (pacing or hiding, for instance) ??????? An animal who has never lived in a home or had much contact with people who needs to be socialized to a home environment Breed rescue organizations also often have extensive networks of foster families willing to temporarily house a dog or cat awaiting a new forever home. Fostering sets off a positive domino effect. The more people willing to open their homes to foster pets, the more pets local shelters can accommodate -- and for longer periods. This gives each animal the best shot at finding a new home. Fostering is Better for Pets Living in a home with a family better prepares pets for adoption than institutional living. It's also much less stressful for the animal. Fostered pets are much less likely to develop fear or anxiety-related behavior problems than animals who spend time in a shelter environment. Foster families are better able to assess a pet's true temperament because they can observe the animal extensively in a home environment. Brief visits with an anxious or fearful shelter resident are often not adequate to learn the pet's true nature. Also, many foster parents spend time working with their furry charges to help overcome physical or emotional challenges or training deficits ? for example, house soiling. Fostering in a home in which there are children and other pets provides an animal the chance to be socialized to a wider range of family configurations. This opens up his possibilities for adoption to a greater number of families. Or ? if the foster pet can't be adequately socialized to small children, for example, the shelter or rescue will know this particular animal must be adopted to a family with no young kids. If an animal has been rescued from an?abusive situation, her foster family can build a bridge from her past (where humans were scary), to a hopeful future full of people who are caring and loving. What to Expect If You Decide to Foster This will depend a great deal on what type of pet you agree to foster, and the circumstances of the animal's life up to that point. General pet rules apply, of course. Dogs require more time and energy than cats. Puppies need more attention than almost any other type of pet. If your foster cat is recuperating from an illness or injury, she might need nursing care or extra TLC. If the dog you took in has no manners, he'll need your help to learn basic obedience commands like Sit, Stay and Down. A healthy kitten will need appropriate nutrition, a litter box, a few toys, lots of gentle handling, and your watchful eye to keep him from getting into anything around your home that might harm him. By contrast, a large breed adult dog who has lived up till now banished to a backyard and ignored, will need all the basics including daily walks and exercise. Plus she'll need to be house trained, leash trained, obedience trained,?socialized?? and there may also be?behavior problems?to address. Obviously, many more people can conveniently take in a healthy kitten or cat than a large, untrained adult dog. Both situations will be rewarding for the foster families who help these animals. But if you have the time and resources necessary to turn a rather unmanageable, large breed shelter dog into a balanced, mostly well-behaved pet, not only will you feel tremendous gratification ? you will also very likely save the life of that dog by dramatically improving the likelihood she'll be adopted. So both the effort and reward of fostering depends on the type of pet you agree to help. Perhaps you're not sure what type of pet you want to foster. Keep in mind the animals who languish the longest in shelters are?older pets, those with medical problems, dogs suffering from breed prejudice, shy pets, those who need to be the only animal in the home, large dogs, black dogs, and pets with special needs. In terms of who would benefit most from your help, an animal in any of those groups would certainly qualify.??

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We gonna fight or we gonna flip? Brimage-Blanco fight ends with gymnastics

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ATLANTA -If you're an MMA fighter, there's a right way and a wrong way to show exactly how athletic you are. Marcus Brimage and Maximo Blanco chose the wrong way.

Brimage and Blanco opened UFC 145 with a largely drama-free opening bout, 15 minutes in which the fighters logged more miles walked than punches landed. Brimage had trouble getting Blanco to the floor, and Blanco didn't stay down long once he got there. But between the final horn and the judges' verdict ? split decision in favor of Brimage ? the fighters began a curious little display that might not have had the effect they wanted.

[ Related: Travis Browne and Matt Brown highlight UFC 145 prelim card ]

As the horn sounded, Blanco raised his arms in a self-declared victory. With his crew filing into the ring, Brimage shook his head in disgust. And then Blanco ripped a page from the playbook of NASCAR driver Carl Edwards, who backflips off his car after every victory.

Blanco unleashed an array of back tucks, back handsprings and round-offs, and Brimage, with an "anything you can do, I can do better" smirk, matched Blanco's every move. It was a pretty damn impressive display of athleticism, except for the fact that the crowd had come here to see fighting, not synchronized tumbling. The boos rained down from an already-full Philips Arena; the crowd would have to wait another bout for its blood.

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Polaris' pool-cleaning robots get updated with added intelligence, four-wheel drive

It's been almost exactly a year since Zodiac Pool Systems last expanded its line of Polaris-branded pool-cleaning robots, and it's now back with two more additions that fill out the top and bottom end of its lineup. That includes the company's most advanced robot to date, the $1499 Polaris 9400 Sport (pictured above), which adds four-wheel drive for the first time, as well as the company's new accelerometer-enhanced ActivMotion Sensor technology -- something Polaris says allows the robot to continually sense where it is in the pool and optimize its cleaning action accordingly. The 9100 Sport, on the other hand, gets neither of those new additions, but it'll "only" set you back $799, and will still clean pools up to 40 feet long in about two hours. You can get a closer look at those, as well as the company's existing offerings, at the source link below.

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Author Stephen Covey injured in bicycle accident

FILE - This Feb. 25, 2003 file photo shows Dr. Stephen R. Covey at a training session at Georgia State University in Atlanta. Covey, the motivational speaker best known for the book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, has suffered a head injury in a bicycle accident and remains hospitalized in Provo. Publicist Debra Lund says the 79-year-old Covey is responding to family members Friday, April 20, 2012, a day after falling from his bike. (AP Photo/Ric Feld, File)

FILE - This Feb. 25, 2003 file photo shows Dr. Stephen R. Covey at a training session at Georgia State University in Atlanta. Covey, the motivational speaker best known for the book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, has suffered a head injury in a bicycle accident and remains hospitalized in Provo. Publicist Debra Lund says the 79-year-old Covey is responding to family members Friday, April 20, 2012, a day after falling from his bike. (AP Photo/Ric Feld, File)

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) ? Motivational speaker and author Stephen R. Covey is recovering Friday in a Provo, Utah, hospital after being knocked unconscious the previous night in a bicycle accident.

The 79-year-old Covey was in stable condition and responding to family members, said his publicist Debra Lund. While there was no timetable for his release, Lund said doctors had not found any sign of long-term damage to his head.

"He just lost control on his bike and crashed," Lund said. "He was wearing a helmet, which is good news."

The accident happened on a steep road in the foothills of Provo, about 45 miles south of Salt Lake City. No one else was involved, Provo police Sgt. Mathew Siufanua said, although an assistant for Covey who was riding with him witnessed the crash.

"He just took a corner too fast," Siufanua said. "He hit his head and had a pretty good goose egg."

When officers arrived, they found Covey unconscious and sent him to the hospital. There was some bleeding but no signs of other head trauma.

Catherine Sagers, Covey's daughter, told The Salt Lake Tribune that her father was being monitored in an intensive care unit because of some bleeding on the frontal lobe of his brain. While subsequent head scans have not shown any increased swelling or bleeding, Sagers said, the family is "praying a lot he's OK" and that it is still scary.

"They're just waiting to see if the brain is going to swell and bleed out more," Sager said. "If it (bleeds) out more, they'll probably have to go in and drain it."

Covey is the author of "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" as well as three other books that have all sold more than a million copies. He is the co-founder of Utah-based professional services company Franklin-Covey.

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Have You Got A Prescribed Heart Disease Diet Plan To Help You ...

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By Elaine Roles

An individual heart disease diet plan along with a specialist exercise program will not only help you blast away excess body fat but also increase your chances of long term survival as well as increasing your quality of life. There is loads of information about what a heart disease diet is, but for those who are recovering from heart surgery or heart attack it is an important part of taking back control and getting a good recovery.

The population in the UK has gradually been getting more overweight. In fact in the last ten years the number of overweight adults has doubled. Along with the rise of levels of fatness and obesity has been a rise in the number of adults having cardiac problems and indeed a frightening trend has been the reduction in the age of those suffering from their first cardiac event.

Having started a heart disease diet do you still need to lose weight? If so do you know how much weight or fatness you need to lose? One way to assess your excess body fat is to measure your waist circumference.

Be totally honest with yourself, no cheating. Firstly get a tape measure and find ?true waist?. This is the mid-point between the top of you hip bone and the lowest rib. If you are having difficulty finding the middle, gently lean over to one side and you should then be able to find the hip and rib bones. Having found the two points place the tape measure in the middle, it may not be over your tummy button. The tape measure needs to be next to the skin without you breathing in or holding your breath.

The recommended waist measurements for MEN

Normal range = 27 ? 37 inches

Increased Health risk = 37- 40 inches

High Health Risk = 40 + inches

Recommended waist measurements for WOMEN

Normal range = 23.5 -31.5 inches

Increased Health Risk = 31.5 ? 34.5 inches

High Health Risk = 34.5 + inches

Having a waist measurement which is higher than recommended carries an increased health risk related to coronary heart disease, stroke, diabetes and some cancers. The reason for this is that any excess fat stored around the middle will not just be lying under the skin but will have started to go into the kidneys, liver, heart and intestines so affecting the functioning of these vital organs.

A heart disease diet needs to be an individual plan and appropriate for you and only you. We are all very different in age, weight, gender as well as having a wide variety of lifestyles, health issues, fitness levels, and previous experiences of trying to lose weight. Think of losing weight as a prescription. To get the results you want, YOU have to take the required steps in the right dose for the prescribed length of time. If you do not finish the course, or miss a dose you will not get the results you are after.

Research now shows that just a 10% reduction in your body weight can reduce your health risks and improve any current medical conditions considerably. Therefore to lose weight and be successful in maintaining that weight loss you need to find a heart disease diet plan which tackles your lifestyle habits and activity levels as well as giving you calorie and nutritional information.

Losing weight after a cardiac event can be a very stressful experience. For more information about being successful in losing weight and obtaining a heart disease diet go now to http://www.heartdiseasediet.biz

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QNX's Watson-connected Porsche 911, hands-on (video)

Remember that QNX-loaded Porsche 911 we sat down with (in?) at CES? Well, it's back and it learned a few new tricks en route to New Amsterdam York City. The car-friendly software company got its hooks into AT&T's Watson Speech API and used it to power a new voice-command system for it's own take on the "virtual assistant." Using the new speech recognition tool and Ma Bell's LTE network QNX was able to pull up websites, find a Starbucks (though, in New York City you'd have to be blind to not find one) and place calls. All in all, the demo wasn't too different from what we saw in Vegas in January -- in fact, we wouldn't be surprised to find out that Porsche was also utilizing Watson, long before it was announced. For a familiar, but still interesting demo, check out the video after the break.

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