The Wandering Writer: A Tour Through Washington, DC's U Street Neighborhood With NPR's Steve Inskeep

"I wanted you to meet me here because when I think about this neighborhood - the story of how it is now ? it begins here," Steve Inskeep says. "In 1968, Martin Luther King was assassinated and a lot of cities and neighborhoods burned, including this one. One of my neighbors was around at that time and he told me that the riot began here, that there was an office of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference right along here. A huge crowd gathered outside and someone threw an object through a drugstore window and the riots started."

We're standing on a loud corner at the intersection of 14^th and U Street in front of the glass and brick Frank D. Reeves Municipal Center, where Inskeep is occasionally interrupted by horns and conversations and one very polite panhandler. He tells me how, after the destruction, a lot of the buildings were empty for decades. Then this government center opened and brought jobs with it.

"Restaurants started to re-open," he says. "People started to renovate houses." He gestures towards the construction cranes punctuating the cloudy day as he notes how rapidly the neighborhood continues to change.

I'm listening to his words, soaking up the fascinating history lesson, but it's also impossible not to be just a little distracted by his voice. Inskeep's well-known tenor has been seeping out of my radio every morning for over a decade. I cannot help but be briefly disoriented by the physical reality of this surprisingly tall man in khaki pants who accompanies the typically disembodied voice.

When I ask Inskeep to hold a tape recorder while we walk and talk, he happily obliges, joking that he's "held a mic once or twice before." Whenever I ask a question, he deftly shifts the device over my way, making me feel, though not at all uncomfortably, like I'm the one being interviewed.

We amble east on U Street and Inskeep tells me about how different his neighborhood was 12 years ago when he first moved in. With the help of a first-time home buyer's program, he and his wife scraped together the money to purchase a fixer-upper.

"It has the original cast iron steps, stained glass windows and wood floors," he says. "Everything else had to be redone. The plumbing had to be redone from the street in. But that's what we could afford. So we fixed it up ever so slightly and got ourselves in there. We fixed it up some more after we had our first daughter. Actually there are several guys in the basement right now..."

Back then the area was full of vacant lots and buildings.

"Even the businesses that were open would have boarded up windows like they had been boarded up since the '60s. It looked like a dead zone even if it wasn't," he says.

Now the neighborhood, like his home, is in a state of constant renovation.

We pass a gigantic apartment building called The Ellington, named after the jazz legend who grew up here, then stop to admire Lincoln Theater, built in 1922. Inskeep speaks highly of the shows offered here, from films to live performances. As with his other local favorites, he seems equally as passionate about the space as its history. He draws my attention to the venue's loving restoration as we peek inside at the gold-leaf infused d?cor.

Our next stop is neighborhood institution Ben's Chili Bowl, opened in the 1950s. Theirs is a story of endurance.

"It is said to be the only business to survive the catastrophe of this neighborhood after the '60s and into the '80s," Inskeep says. "Even after they started building the metro in here ? ripping up business ? these guys stayed open."

Bill Cosby, who attended nearby Howard University, might be called the patron saint of Ben's. For years, a sign listing folks allowed to eat for free contained only his name. Then, before his inauguration, President Obama showed up. And just like that the list doubled in size. A colorful mural coats one side of the building, Bill and Barack grinning at each other like old friends.

Inskeep points out another favorite food spot across the street: Ulah.

"My wife and I have lunch there all the time," he says. "It's a good neighborhood restaurant with a great variety of people."

Inskeep clearly thrives in diverse urban environments like D.C., telling me: "everywhere I've gone, I've been excited by the cities that I've been to." He offers Kandahar, Baghdad, Cairo, and Karachi as examples.

From abroad we find our conversational way to Hoboken, N.J. We've both resided there and I catch myself telling him about how the PATH train is finally up and running again today post Hurricane Sandy, quickly realizing, but not before the words are out of my mouth, that I'm repeating news I heard directly from him at 5:30 that very morning. Still he listens patiently, only the faintest hint of an amused smile, as I regurgitate his morning report.

As we round the corner back to 14^th Street, he points out Home Rule, a trendy house wares supplier that was the only upscale store on the block when he moved in. It's been around for 14 years and was the first place opened after the riots. Now the stretch is lined with trendy new shops: an oaky wine store, a brightly lit veterinarian, a clothing boutique calling out like a Siren to my wallet.

There are few places we don't have time to see together but that Inskeep thinks are an important part of the neighborhood fabric. He urges me to walk down 13^th Street to Logan Circle to see the "spectacular Victorian homes that were mostly vacant 10 or 12 years ago." Recently they've been split into multi-million dollar units.

Later I'll do just that, then head north up a hill, as he suggests, to take in Cordoza High School, a looming Gothic building under renovation like everything else around here. It's mid-afternoon by then and the majority of those I pass off the beaten U Street path are construction workers meandering home in groups, guys peeling off one at a time down side streets or at bus stops.

Over lunch, Inskeep mentions the amazing variety of people that exist together in this area. First, this was an overwhelmingly black neighborhood. Then came an influx of Hispanics, followed by white homebuyers. There was gentrification. Bars and restaurants blossomed. There are constant conflicts over what this neighborhood stands for, Inskeep tells me.

"Is it a black neighborhood? A white neighborhood? A diverse area? An entertainment district? A residential area? Is it upscale? Is it downscale? It's ended up being all of those things in the years that we've been here."

No matter what larger generalizations one might be tempted to make about this area ? like any ? it's apparent that Inskeep remains focused on the personal details of the place, just like he does in his journalism. "You don't want to be abstract," he tells me. "You want to be specific. You want to tell stories."

And he's told me some fascinating ones about this neighborhood over the last few hours ? not to mention regaled me with tales about Hurricane Katrina, Charleton Heston, Cairo, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the state of journalism, and, of course, about himself.

At the end of our afternoon, I thank Inskeep for his time ? and then I blurt out the kind of favor only a true NPR nerd would ask.

"Would you record the 'Morning Edition' intro with me?"

"You want to do what?" he asks, and I cannot tell if he is appalled or amused or somewhere in between. Whatever his feelings regarding the request, he's game. But not before cautioning: "The sound quality will be terrible."

And so the last audio recordings from that day are not those of an unflappable journalist collecting material for a story but rather of a giddy fan:

"I'm Steve Inskeep..." he says.

"I'm Rachel Friedman..." I say.

"And you're listening to 'Morning Edition' from NPR news."

Eat your heart out, Renee Montagne.

About the Wandering Writer:
Steve Inskeep is host of NPR's "Morning Edition," the most widely heard radio news program in the United States. He co-hosts the program with Renee Montagne. Inskeep is the author of "Instant City: Life and Death in Karachi," published in 2011 by The Penguin Press, a story of ordinary, often heroic people and their struggles to build one of the world's great megacities. In addition, Inskeep has written for publications including The New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal.

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Jason London beaten and arrested; cops say he defecated in police car

?Dazed and Confused? star Jason London was arrested over the weekend after a bar fight in Scottsdale, Ariz. Then he allegedly defecated in the back of a cop car out of revenge, the official police report says.

The twin brother of ?7th Heaven? actor Jeremy London was cuffed Sunday night for ?cold clocking? a bouncer who supposedly sneezed in his face. The 40-year-old was then kicked out of the bar by security guards, GossipCop reports.

According to the police report, when paramedics arrived at the scene, London ?became belligerent and started cursing? and refused to comply with their treatment. Cops were then forced to ?deliver a knee strike? to London?s thigh because he was so aggressive that they had to subdue him to get him seated on the ground. London allegedly continued to rant and swear at the police.

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Here's Jason London's dazed and confused mug shot.

When he was finally placed under arrest and moved to the back seat of the police car, London uttered a homophobic slur to the cops and said ?I'm rich and I'm a motherf---ing famous actor! F---ing look me up, bitch."

According to the police report, London then leaned to the left and defecated in his pants. He then said, "I told you I'm happy as s--t."

TMZ reports that the next day cops spoke with London?s wife Sofia who told them, "I know he's an a--hole when he drinks."

London was charged with disorderly conduct following the scrape at the Martini Ranch, according to ABC15 TV.

While none of this is funny, after the very horrible night London had, he produced one of the most glorious mug shots we?ve seen. London has cuts on his nose and forehead, and his right eye is swollen behind his glasses that are perched askew. Also, is he smirking?

London responded to the incident today in several bizarre posts on Twitter.

?Guys, the TMZ report is a total f---ing lie. I got jumped by three 250 pound bouncers. They knocked me out and beat me for several minutes.

I would never say or do the crap they are reporting. Have faith in me. The truth will come out and you will see.?

He continues, "Some guy thought I was hitting on his girl and had me jumped. My wife was in the next room, had no idea what even happened. I hate Arizona."

Wait till you see the real pictures. I have a right orbital fracture and sinus fracture. The truth will win?

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Mechanism behind wear at atomic scale

Jan. 30, 2013 ? Wear is a fact of life. As surfaces rub against one another, they break down and lose their original shape. With less material to start with and functionality that often depends critically on shape and surface structure, wear affects nanoscale objects more strongly than it does their macroscale counterparts.

Worse, the mechanisms behind wear processes are better understood for things like car engines than nanotech devices. But now, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Engineering and Applied Science have experimentally demonstrated one of the mechanisms behind wear at the smallest scale: the transfer of material, atom by atom, from one surface to another.

The research was conducted by Tevis Jacobs, a doctoral student in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and Robert Carpick, department chair of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics.

Their research was published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology.

On the nanoscale, wear is mainly understood through two processes, fracture and plastic deformation. Fracture is where large pieces of a surface break off at once, like when the point of a pencil snaps off in the middle of a sentence. Plastic deformation is what happens when the surface changes shape or compresses without breaking, like when the edge of knife gets dull or bent.

These mechanisms typically affect thousands or millions of atoms at a time, whereas nanoscale wear often proceeds through a much more gradual process. Determining the mechanisms behind this more gradual process is key to improving such devices.

"At the nanoscale, wear is a very significant problem," Jacobs says. "Nanotechnology is developing smaller and smaller parts for very tiny machines. Their contact interfaces wear out very quickly, sometimes surviving for hundreds of cycles when they need to survive for trillions or more."

One wear mechanism that had been hypothesized for the nanoscale is a process known as atomic attrition. There, atoms from one surface are transferred to the other surface via a series of individual bond-forming and bond-breaking chemical reactions. Other researchers have attempted to test this process by putting two surfaces in contact and sliding one against the other.

Those previous investigations involved Atomic Force Microscopes. Using an AFM involves dragging a very sharp tip mounted on a flexible cantilever over a surface while a laser aimed at the cantilever precisely measures how much the tip moves. By using the tip as one of the surfaces in a wear experiment, researchers can precisely control the sliding distance, sliding speed and load in the contact. But the AFM doesn't visualize the experiment at all; the volume of atoms lost from the tip can only be inferred or examined after the fact, and the competing wear mechanisms, fracture and plastic deformation can't be ruled out.

The Penn team's breakthrough was to conduct AFM-style wear experiments inside of a transmission electron microscope, or TEM, which passes a beam of electrons through a sample (in this case, the nanoscale tip) to generate an image of the sample, magnified more than 100,000 times.

By modifying a commercial mechanical testing instrument that works inside a TEM, the researchers were able to slide a flat diamond surface against the silicon tip of an AFM probe. By putting the probe-cantilever assembly inside the TEM and running the wear experiment there, they were able to simultaneously measure the distance the tip slid, the force with which it contacted the diamond and the volume of atoms removed in each sliding interval.

"We can watch the whole process live to see what happens while the surfaces are in contact," Jacobs said. "Then, after each pass, we use the TEM like a camera and take an even higher magnification picture of the tip. We can trace its outline and see how much volume has been lost, down to as small as 25 square nanometers, or about 1250 atoms.

"We are measuring changes in volume that are one thousand times smaller than can be seen using other techniques for wear detection."

While this new microscopy method can't image individual atoms moving from the silicon tip to the diamond punch, it enabled the researchers to see the atomic structure of the wearing tip well enough to rule out fracture and plastic deformation as the mechanism behind the tip's wear. Proving that the silicon atoms from the tip were bonding to the diamond and then staying behind involved combining the visual and force data into a mathematical test.

"If atomic attrition is what's happening," Carpick said, "then the rate at which those bonds are formed and the dependence on contact stress -- the force per unit area -- is well-established science. That means we can apply chemical kinetics, or reaction rate theory, to the wear process."

Now that they could measure the volume of atoms removed, the distance the tip slid and the force of the contact for each experimental test, the researchers could calculate the rate at which the silicon-diamond bonds form under different conditions and compare that to predictions based on reaction rate theory, a theory that is routinely used in chemistry.

"The more force the atoms are under, the more likely they are to form a bond with an atom on the opposing surface, so the wear rate should accelerate exponentially with additional stress," Jacobs said. "Seeing that in the experimental data was a smoking gun. The trend in the data implies that we can predict the rate of wear of the tip, knowing only the stress levels in the contact, as long as this wear mechanism is dominant."

For now, those predictions can only be made about the wear of silicon on diamond in a vacuum, though the selection of those two materials was not accidental. They are common in nanoscale devices and tools for nanomanufacturing.

The math behind the atomic attrition mechanism could eventually be applied in a fundamental way.

"The goal of this avenue of research is to get to the point where you tell me the materials in contact, and you tell me the period they are in contact and the stresses applied and I will be able to tell you the rate at which atoms will be removed," Jacobs said.

"With a fundamental understanding of wear, you can cleverly design surfaces and choose materials to make longer lasting devices," Carpick said.

This fundamental, predicative understanding of wear could vastly improve nanomechanical design, increasing functionality and decreasing costs.

The research was supported by the National Science Foundation's Nanomanufacturing Program and Penn's NanoBio Interface Center.

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Soldier looks forward to driving with new arms

Retired Infantryman Brendan M. Marrocco uses his transplanted arm to brush his hair back during a news conference Tuesday, Jan. 29. 2013 at Johns Hopkins hospital in Baltimore. Marrocco received a transplant of two arms from a deceased donor after losing all four limbs in a 2009 roadside bomb attack in Iraq. (AP Photo/Gail Burton)

Retired Infantryman Brendan M. Marrocco uses his transplanted arm to brush his hair back during a news conference Tuesday, Jan. 29. 2013 at Johns Hopkins hospital in Baltimore. Marrocco received a transplant of two arms from a deceased donor after losing all four limbs in a 2009 roadside bomb attack in Iraq. (AP Photo/Gail Burton)

Retired Infantryman Brendan M. Marrocco listens during a news conference Tuesday, Jan. 29. 2013 at Johns Hopkins hospital in Baltimore. Marrocco received a transplant of two arms from a deceased donor after losing all four limbs in a 2009 roadside bomb attack in Iraq. (AP Photo/Gail Burton)

Retired Infantryman Brendan M. Marrocco smiles during a news conference Tuesday, Jan. 29. 2013 at Johns Hopkins hospital in Baltimore. Marrocco received a transplant of two arms from a deceased donor after losing all four limbs in a 2009 roadside bomb attack in Iraq. (AP Photo/Gail Burton)

Retired Infantryman Brendan M. Marrocco listens during a news conference Tuesday, Jan. 29. 2013 at Johns Hopkins hospital in Baltimore. Marrocco received a transplant of two arms from a deceased donor after losing all four limbs in a 2009 roadside bomb attack in Iraq. (AP Photo/Gail Burton)

Retired Infantryman Brendan M. Marrocco wheels himself into a news conference followed by lead surgeon W.P. Andrew Lee, M.D., Tuesday, Jan. 29. 2013 at Johns Hopkins hospital in Baltimore. Marrocco received a transplant of two arms from a deceased donor after losing all four limbs in a 2009 roadside bomb attack in Iraq. (AP Photo/Gail Burton)

BALTIMORE (AP) ? A soldier who lost all four limbs in a roadside bombing in Iraq says he's looking forward to driving and swimming with new arms after undergoing a double-arm transplant.

"I just want to get the most out of these arms, and just as goals come up, knock them down and take it absolutely as far as I can," Brendan Marrocco said Tuesday.

The 26-year-old New Yorker spoke at a news conference at Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he was joined by surgeons who performed the operation.

After he was wounded, Marrocco said, he felt fine using prosthetic legs, but he hated not having arms.

"You talk with your hands, you do everything with your hands, basically, and when you don't have that, you're kind of lost for a while," he said.

Marrocco said his chief desire is to drive the black Dodge Charger that's been sitting in his garage for three years.

"I used to love to drive," he said. "I'm really looking forward to just getting back to that, and just becoming an athlete again."

Although he doesn't expect to excel at soccer, his favorite sport, Marrocco said he'd like to swim and compete in a marathon using a handcycle.

Marrocco joked that military service members sometimes regard themselves as poorly paid professional athletes. His good humor and optimism are among the qualities doctors cited as signs he will recover much of his arm and hand use in two to three years.

"He's a young man with a tremendous amount of hope, and he's stubborn ? stubborn in a good way," said Dr. Jaimie Shores, the hospital's clinical director of hand transplantation. "I think the sky's the limit."

Shores said Marrocco has already been trying to use his hands, although he lacks feeling in the fingers, and he's eager to do more as the slow-growing nerves and muscles mend.

"I suspect that he will be using his hands for just about everything as we let him start trying to do more and more. Right now, we're the ones really kind of holding him back at this point," Shores said.

The procedure was only the seventh double-hand or double-arm transplant ever done in the United States.

The infantryman was injured by a roadside bomb in 2009. He is the first soldier to survive losing all four limbs in the Iraq War.

Marrocco also received bone marrow from the same donor to minimize the medicine needed to prevent rejection. He said he didn't know much about the donor but "I'm humbled by their gift."

The 13-hour operation on Dec. 18 was led by Dr. W.P. Andrew Lee, plastic surgery chief at Hopkins.

Marrocco was being released from the hospital Tuesday but will receive intensive therapy for two years at Hopkins and then at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda.

After a major surgery, human nerves regenerate at a rate of an inch per month, Lee said.

"The progress will be slow, but the outcome will be rewarding," he added.

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Associated Press Writer David Dishneau contributed to this story from Hagerstown, Md.

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Keas Turns Health and Wellness Programs into Fun and Games | 7x7

It?s no secret that the workplace is not always the healthiest environment for people. There tends to be a lot of sitting around at desks or in meetings; there?s often a lot of stress; opportunities to exercise can be rare; and rushed, unhealthy snacks and meals are often the norm.

SF-based Keas is focused on mitigating all that. It offers employee wellness programs to large companies (and in the future, smaller companies as well) that draw on social media, gamification, motivation theory and psychology.

?Companies want better health for employees, partly because the average employee?s health care costs $15,000 a year,? says CEO Josh Stevens. ?It really hurts their bottom line, and much of it is avoidable. Meanwhile, we?re helping people do what they should do, and try to make it fun and social to engage in healthy activities.

?Our experience indicates that when people are involved with a small, engaged team, they will egg each other on, and give support to reach healthy goals. It works organically from the bottom up, not from top down.?

The Keas program is typically administered through the H.R. department behind the company?s firewall, and in many cases, serves as the authorized social network in enterprises that restrict acess to Facebook and Twitter, etc.

Employees sign in with their company email, and are asked a few questions about their health and wellness concerns, which allows Keas to personalize their experience.

They are then prompted to join or start a small team (up to six members), usually with others sharing similar health concerns, such as being overweight.

The program suggests weekly goals from a library of hundreds it has built up to deal with concerns like weight issues, lack of exercise, poor diet, and so on.

?You create a profile, with a photo, and your name,? explains Stevens. ?You can set up to three goals a week. For instance, mine are to eat five veggies, drink 16 gasses of water, and walk 60 minutes a day.?

Team members then can encourage and/or challenge you in a social feed that contains elements of gaming, as you strive to hit your goals.

Employees have by default up to 25 points of ?energy? to expend each day and they earn additional energy, and in many companies prizes or rewards, both virtual and real, in the process.

Some companies offer additional points as incentives for employees to get flu shots, for example.

?If they can get five more points for a flu shot, most people will choose that option,? says Stevens.

Other companies are experimenting with other types of incentives, such as offering $500 off the annual deductible on the corporate health plan to employees who get a blood test.

One company that tried this recently reported that 90 percent of its employees chose to take that incentive and get tested.

Such tests help doctors to identify people early who are at risk for developing diabetes and other debilitating (and expensive) medical conditions before it?s too late to prevent them.

Stevens says a subset of employees in most companies, usually men, respond better to competitions around reaching health and wellness goals, and they do things like check the daily leaderboards.

The points employees earn via the Keas program often lead to rewards like a monthly cash prize, or a free iPad, or company-wide recognition.

Although Keas presently works only with companies that have 1000 employees or more, Stevens says they are developing a program for smaller businesses as well, which we will try to highlight here when it becomes available.

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The paper makes an attempt to understand how the balance sheets of various sectors of GCC got impacted due to the financial crisis. There is also an attempt to understand why Bankruptcy laws in GCC are inadequate and what lessons can be learnt post Global Financial crisis to deal with Bankruptcy in GCC region. Estimation has been made to understand the current size of problem in GCC and we have included studies of Investment companies seeking to restructure their debt.

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NASA to launch ocean wind monitor to space station

Jan. 29, 2013 ? In a clever reuse of hardware originally built to test parts of NASA's QuikScat satellite, the agency will launch the ISS-RapidScat instrument to the International Space Station in 2014 to measure ocean surface wind speed and direction.

The ISS-RapidScat instrument will help improve weather forecasts, including hurricane monitoring, and understanding of how ocean-atmosphere interactions influence Earth's climate.

"The ability for NASA to quickly reuse this hardware and launch it to the space station is a great example of a low-cost approach that will have high benefits to science and life here on Earth," said Mike Suffredini, NASA's International Space Station program manager.

ISS-RapidScat will help fill the data gap created when QuikScat, which was designed to last two years but operated for 10, stopped collecting ocean wind data in late 2009. A scatterometer is a microwave radar sensor used to measure the reflection or scattering effect produced while scanning the surface of Earth from an aircraft or a satellite.

NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have studied next-generation replacements for QuikScat, but a successor will not be available soon. To meet this challenge cost-effectively, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and the agency's station program proposed adapting leftover QuikScat hardware in combination with new hardware for use on the space station.

"ISS-RapidScat represents a low-cost approach to acquiring valuable wind vector data for improving global monitoring of hurricanes and other high-intensity storms," said Howard Eisen, ISS-RapidScat project manager at JPL. "By leveraging the capabilities of the International Space Station and recycling leftover hardware, we will acquire good science data at a fraction of the investment needed to launch a new satellite."

ISS-RapidScat will have measurement accuracy similar to QuikScat's and will survey all regions of Earth accessible from the space station's orbit. The instrument will be launched to the space station aboard a SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft. It will be installed on the end of the station's Columbus laboratory as an autonomous payload requiring no interaction by station crew members. It is expected to operate aboard the station for two years.

ISS-RapidScat will take advantage of the space station's unique characteristics to advance understanding of Earth's winds. Current scatterometer orbits pass the same point on Earth at approximately the same time every day. Since the space station's orbit intersects the orbits of each of these satellites about once every hour, ISS-RapidScat can serve as a calibration standard and help scientists stitch together the data from multiple sources into a long-term record.

ISS-RapidScat also will collect measurements of Earth's global wind field at all times of day for all locations. Variations in winds caused by the sun can play a significant role in the formation of tropical clouds and tropical systems that play a dominant role in Earth's water and energy cycles. ISS-RapidScat observations will help scientists understand these phenomena better and improve weather and climate models.

The ISS-RapidScat project is a joint partnership of JPL and NASA's International Space Station Program Office at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, with support from the Earth Science Division of the Science Mission Directorate in Washington.

For more on NASA's scatterometry missions, visit: http://winds.jpl.nasa.gov/index.cfm . For more information about the International Space Station, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/station .

You can follow JPL News on Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/nasajpl and on Twitter at: http://www.twitter.com/nasajpl . The California Institute of Technology in Pasadena manages JPL for NASA.

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Sell E-books and make money online

E-book or electronic is a small device in which the contents of a book are placed on an electronic format giving people access to download and read it on a mobile phone or a computer. You might think that this is not a sellable business; however, if you would try to research on one topic, you will find that there will always be an e-book for every topic you Google. E-book today is a very lucrative business. It is easier, cheaper, and you will not go through the hassles of making too much money for the purpose publishing your book and promotional campaigns which could cost millions of dollars.

All you have to do is to write a book with 20 to 250 pages about anything you would like to write. You could research on topics that interests more people or you could depend on topics that you may be interested in. Who knows; there are millions of people looking of a valuable book which only you can write. And if you think you writing is not your line but you want to enter into this kind of venture, you can still do so simply by hiring a writer who can write the book for you. It may cost you a little to pay your writer for his effort, but once that effort pays off, you will start earning money every time there is someone who wants to purchase your book; and this will go on as long as there are people buying your books. With a little effort of trying to make a book, the amount of money that you can earn is insurmountable by the time people are starting to get interested in your book.

The price of the e-book varies in a number of factors?the length of the contents, the number of pages, the design and effort to layout the book, the uniqueness of the contents, as well as the demand of the readers. If it is truly an in-demand topic, you can increase the price tag of your book. However, if it is only a 20 to 100 page book, then you should make a very reasonable price for it. But, there?s a catch. If you keep your price lower and your book truly interests people, there is no doubt that the book could be a bestselling. It?s all in the matter of choosing the perfect topic to write.

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Content management systems What is the best content management system out there? I have used wordpress since the launch of my site 18 months ago, and although I really like the ease of wordpress I have never been 100% happy with the functionality of my website as a whole. I have tried for ages to bridge the site with all the different forum software's & shopping carts & never found anything I am truly happy with. All 3 components work brilliantly individually but what I really want is 1 website that offers everything under 1 login. Our website is now becoming really popular, so want to invest in a long term website option. My requirements are... 1, blogging system 2, chat forum 3, shopping cart 4, Facebook connect (1 of my main traffic sources) 5, WHMCS / membership module - we run a magazine so something that could handle magazine subscriptions as well as website membership. Anyone have any experience or advice to offer on upgrading from wordpress ?? __________________ UK's biggest Manchester United magazine

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I think that you are really talking about a custom build. You will find similar 'components' in Joomla & Drupal, but you probably will have the same concerns as you do today in Wordpress. However the custom build costs could be frighteningly large for everything you need compared to the free opensource / low cost components you get with Wordpress etc. Another approach is to identify the specific concerns you have and get a developer to fix them.

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Thanks roibot, Out of interest, what ball park figure do you estimate for a custom build? Instead of having the whole site custom built would it be better to take existing software which matches most my requirements then custom build the rest? Has anyone used expression engine? http://ellislab.com/expressionengine would this have all the functionality I require? __________________ UK's biggest Manchester United magazine

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Wordpress/Buddypress/Zencart would sort this out. Quite a lot of recoding needed but can be done and should be a lot cheaper than a custom build.

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I have used EE and it's blooming brilliant but like Joomla and Drupal, it has a large learning curve as it's ultimately a custom built system. It can also get very expensive as modules are chargeable and can be upto $500 for the forum module. A lot of large websites use EE including Vidahost, but they don't use the EE forum module, instead running on Xenforo (which is built by the guys who built Vbulletin) You're never going to find a 100% fit without a custom build, as every websites needs are different and what works for one website, won't work for another. Custom build, estimate would be ?15k + but will depend on so many variables including features, coding language used etc.

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Quote: Out of interest, what ball park figure do you estimate for a custom build? Instead of having the whole site custom built would it be better to take existing software which matches most my requirements then custom build the rest? For your requirements a custom build would be really quite expensive, it's a lot of work. Hiring someone to link pieces together would be a bit cheaper but it's not going to be without it's issues. With each part being separate and developed elsewhere the updates might be pulling in different directions and you might have to do a lot to keep it maintained. Consider that it's not a completely terrible crime to have separate unlinked systems though. It's not at-all outside the realm of a users typical experience to have to sign up to a website and then separately to it's forum. __________________ That's Brill - Fantastic products curated. For retail therapy or gift ideas. thatsbrill.co.uk

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Cheers Faevilangel, Why don't vidahost use the EE forum? is it not that good? does the Xenforo forum integrate fully? I'm aware that I still won't get 100% of my requirements but if I could get 90% + I would be really happy. as my site continues to grow I think wordpress is going to be less suitable, so would like to design for the future now. I have my own graphic designer so would only really need to pay for the modules and then maybe someone experienced to do little bits of coding I reckon I could pick up a lot myself. I have a decent sized budget but not enough for a custom build. As a rough guess what would it cost to set up a site with my requirements with EE? and would this meet most of my requirements? Also anyone recommend any other CMS's not yet mentioned? __________________ UK's biggest Manchester United magazine

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The EE forum module is kind of limited, it's not developed very much while Xenforo is and is just a better forum out of the box. It's the same for all forum packages, using modules for existing systems, normally means a more limited system while an external script gives you a better system. I haven't used EE in at least 2 years so wouldn't be able to quote as not looked at it for ages, but can put you in touch with someone I know who develops with EE. Cost wise, including buying the system, ?1500-?4k depending again on how many features you want (EE has a lot out of the box).

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Quote: For your requirements a custom build would be really quite expensive, it's a lot of work. Hiring someone to link pieces together would be a bit cheaper but it's not going to be without it's issues. With each part being separate and developed elsewhere the updates might be pulling in different directions and you might have to do a lot to keep it maintained. Consider that it's not a completely terrible crime to have separate unlinked systems though. It's not at-all outside the realm of a users typical experience to have to sign up to a website and then separately to it's forum. Cheers that's brill, yeah I have seen a lot of decent websites that run a different forum. As I would eventually like to make my website a membership service, I would prefer to have it all the same if poss? that way I can restrict parts of the site & forum for paid members. __________________ UK's biggest Manchester United magazine

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Quote: The EE forum module is kind of limited, it's not developed very much while Xenforo is and is just a better forum out of the box. It's the same for all forum packages, using modules for existing systems, normally means a more limited system while an external script gives you a better system. I haven't used EE in at least 2 years so wouldn't be able to quote as not looked at it for ages, but can put you in touch with someone I know who develops with EE. Cost wise, including buying the system, ?1500-?4k depending again on how many features you want (EE has a lot out of the box). This sounds more in the ballpark I was looking at, yeah would be great if you could put me in touch. __________________ UK's biggest Manchester United magazine

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Small Business Owner: The IRS Says You Are Tax Cheat

Small business does a lot for America, accounting for roughly half of private sector GDP and employment.

Their economic contributions probably account for part of the reason that small business is our country?s most trusted group. A recent Pew Foundation survey revealed that 71 percent of Americans held a positive view of small business, 8 percentage points higher than churches and religious organizations and 10 percentage points higher than colleges and universities.

But small business owners aren?t saints. They are also America?s top tax cheats, according to Internal Revenue Service (IRS) taxpayer advocate Nina Olson. Not all of them, of course, but, on average, small business owners are much more likely than other Americans to underpay their taxes.

Their cheating is substantial. The IRS reported that the United States Treasury faced a tax gap ? the amount it was owed less what it was paid ? of $385 billion in 2006, the most recent year data are available. The largest chunk of this gap ? $122 billion ? is unreported business income on individual income tax returns.

But just as we shouldn?t look at the Pew Foundation survey and think that more trustworthy people become small business owners than politicians, bankers, ministers or college professors, we shouldn?t look at the IRS figures and conclude that dishonest types start companies. Small business owners aren?t less honest than the rest of us. They are just better able to get away with cheating on their taxes.

People don?t under report their wages because their employers report their earnings to the IRS. Knowing that, the IRS knows what?s in your paycheck keeps most people from lying about the amount they are paid. Therefore, only 1 percent of wages go unreported.

By contrast, the IRS has no idea how much cash sole proprietors are taking in. That?s why the IRS estimates that a whopping 56 percent of sole proprietors? cash receipts are not disclosed to the tax authorities.

The IRS doesn?t think checking up on most small businesses is worth their time. While they regularly audit giant corporations like Apple or General Motors, coming through the records of a bunch of tiny companies doesn?t yield enough unpaid taxes to justify the costs.

A small business owner earning $155,000 per year faces an average tax rate of 20.5 percent, the nonpartisan Tax Foundation tells us. If the IRS catches the business owner under reporting income by 25 percent, that yields only $7,800 in lost income. Therefore, it?s not surprising that the IRS audits only 1 percent of taxpayers earning less than $200,000 per year, but 12 percent of those earning more than $1 million.

Moreover, the IRS knows that a chunk of small business under reporting isn?t deliberate. It comes from the difficulty of figuring out what one actually owes. Fear of punishment might motivate small business owners not to purposefully misstate their income, but it does little to help them calculate the right numbers under a maddeningly complex tax code.

Finally, our elected officials inadvertently preserve small business tax cheating when they try to avoid burdening small business owners with costly tax reporting requirements. The IRS and many tax experts explain that small business owners would reduce under reporting if third parties provided the IRS with more information. But Congress has repeatedly voted down third party reporting requirements for small businesses as too burdensome.

Whatever the combination of causes, a recent New York Times article summed up the outcome succinctly. The best way to cheat on your taxes is to ?run your own company. More specifically? be the sole proprietor of a Schedule C business.?

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Find Unexpected New Uses for Your Crock Pot - Upper Dublin Patch

Sure, you've used your Crock Pot for soups and stews. You probably own a cookbook, and you might even have sites like Crock Pot Girls bookmarked.

But have you made bread in a Crock Pot? Would it ever cross your mind to prepare veggies in one?

Pinterest, my new go-to corner of the Internet for recipes and kitchen inspiration, has more slow-cooker ideas than you could prepare in two lifetimes. Here are a few of my favorite you-can-make-that-in-a-Crock-Pot? recipes.

Lemon and garlic artichokes - I'm not sure why this spiky green veggie - a thistle flower, to be exact - gives people such pause. It strikes fear into the hearts of men. Most of you have had artichoke hearts on pizza or in dip, but I'd bet few of you have prepared them fresh. Why not? They're delicious and extremely healthy. This step-by-step recipe, with photos, should help take some of the fear out of preparing fresh artichokes.

Cheesecake - Prepare a perfect cheesecake in your slow cooker! The secret is a water bath, so you'll have to find a heat-resistant dish that fits into the Crock Pot. Prepare crust and cheesecake batter in the dish, then lower carefully into water bath in the Crock Pot. Bake two to three hours (but check after one). Chill for two hours.

Sourdough bread -Whether you use prepared dough, or make your own, you can have freshly baked bread, in under three hours, from the slow cooker! This is also a great way to bake without heating up the oven. (Hard to think about this now while it's 12 degrees outside, I know, but keep this in mind come July!)

Sausage and egg casserole - A complete breakfast! In a slow cooker! Prepared the night before! Does it get any better? Layer hashbrowns, cooked sausage, onions and cheese, then pour seasoned, whisked eggs over the whole thing. Cook on low for six to eight hours (overnight), and enjoy in the a.m.

Baked apples - All the goodness of baked apple pie, without the guilt of the crust (although, admittedly, the crust is my absolutely favorite part). Carve out the core of six apples and fill them with a mix of brown sugar, nuts, butter and cinnamon. Pour apple juice or apple cider into the Crock Pot, around the apples. Cook on high for two and a half to three hours, until soft. Serve warm with vanilla ice cream or frozen yogurt.

Have a favorite slow cooker recipe? Share it with us below!

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Billions in gas drilling royalties transform lives

PITTSBURGH (AP) ? Private landowners are reaping billions of dollars in royalties each year from the boom in natural gas drilling, transforming lives and livelihoods even as the windfall provides only a modest boost to the broader economy.

In Pennsylvania alone, royalty payments could top $1.2 billion for 2012, according to an Associated Press analysis that looked at state tax information, production records and estimates from the National Association of Royalty Owners.

For some landowners, the unexpected royalties have made a big difference.

"We used to have to put stuff on credit cards. It was basically living from paycheck to paycheck," said Shawn Georgetti, who runs a family dairy farm in Avella, about 30 miles southwest of Pittsburgh.

Natural gas production has boomed in many states over the past few years as advances in drilling opened up vast reserves buried in deep shale rock, such as the Marcellus formation in Pennsylvania and the Barnett in Texas.

Nationwide, the royalty owners association estimates, natural gas royalties totaled $21 billion in 2010, the most recent year for which it has done a full analysis. Texas paid out the most in gas royalties that year, about $6.7 billion, followed by Wyoming at $2 billion and Alaska at $1.9 billion.

Exact estimates of natural gas royalty payments aren't possible because contracts and wholesale prices of gas vary, and specific tax information is private. But some states release estimates of the total revenue collected for all royalties, and feedback on thousands of contracts has led the royalty owners association to conclude that the average royalty is 18.5 percent of gas production.

"Our fastest-growing state chapter is our Pennsylvania chapter, and we just formed a North Dakota chapter. We've seen a lot of new people, and new questions," said Jerry Simmons, the director of the association, which was founded in 1980 and is based in Oklahoma.

Simmons said he hasn't heard of anyone getting less than 12.5 percent, and that's also the minimum rate set by law in Pennsylvania. Simmons knows of one contract in another state where the owner received 25 percent of production, but that's unusual.

By comparison, a 10 to 25 percent range is similar to what a top recording artist might get in royalties from CD sales, while a novelist normally gets a 12.5 percent to 15 percent royalty on hardcover book sales.

Simmons added that for oil and gas "there is no industry standard," since the royalty is often adjusted based on the per-acre signing bonus a landowner receives. While many people are lured by higher upfront bonuses, a higher royalty rate can generate more total income over the life of a well, which can stretch for 25 years.

Before Range Resources drilled a well on the family property in 2012, Georgetti said, he was stuck using 30-year-old equipment, with no way to upgrade without going seriously into debt.

"You don't have that problem anymore. It's a lot more fun to farm," Georgetti said, since he has been able to buy newer equipment that's bigger, faster and more fuel-efficient. The drilling hasn't caused any problems for the farm, he said.

Range spokesman Matt Pitzarella said the Fort Worth, Texas-based company has paid "well over" $1 billion to Pennsylvania landowners, with most of that coming since 2008.

One economist noted that the windfall payments from the natural gas boom are wonderful for individuals, but that they represent just a tiny portion of total economic activity.

For example, the $1 billion for Pennsylvania landowners sounds like a lot, but "it's just not going to have a big impact on the overall vitality of the overall economy," said Robert Inman, a professor of economics and public policy at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton business school. "I think the issue is, what difference does it make for the individual families?"

Pennsylvania's total gross domestic product in 2011 was about $500 billion, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce.

Inman noted that total gas industry hiring and investment can have a far bigger effect on a state or region, and companies have invested tens of billions of dollars just in Pennsylvania on pipelines, infrastructure, and drilling in recent years.

For example, in North Dakota the shale oil and minerals boom contributed 2.8 percent of GDP growth to the entire state economy in 2011, according to Commerce Department data.

Another variable in how much royalty owners actually receive is the wholesale price of gas. That has dropped significantly over the past two years even as production has boomed in Pennsylvania and many other states. Average wholesale prices went from about $4.50 per unit of gas in 2010 to about $3 in 2012. For many leaseholders, that meant a decline in royalties.

The boom in natural gas royalties has even led to niche spinoff companies that look for lease heirs who don't even know they're owed money.

Michael Zwick is president of Assets International, a Michigan company that searches for missing heirs.

"It was an underserved niche," Zwick said of oil and gas leases. When a company can't find an heir to lease royalties, the money often goes to state unclaimed property funds.

Zwick said he has found a few dozen people whose gas lease money was being held in escrow, including one who was owed about $250,000 in drilling royalties. But the average amount, he said, is far lower.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/billions-gas-drilling-royalties-transform-lives-150830350.html

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Writing a Professional Life: Stories of Technical Communicators On and Off the Job (Part of the Allyn & Bacon Series in Technical Communication)

This is the first collection of narratives by practicing technical communicators telling their own personal stories about the workplace and their lives on the job. The authors portray a wide range of jobs: writers, editors, interface designers, marketing writers, and trainers working in 9 different technical fields, including software, R&D, engineering , medicine, transportation, and telecommunications. The stories vividly demonstrate the unique power of narrative as a teaching and learning tool. Unlike fabricated cases, these real-life narratives show new and veteran technical writers at work on the job, dealing with tasks, clients, and co-workers, and revealing their insights, values, and attitudes about their work. The stories also show the skills required in the profession and the ethical and other issues raised in the course of the workday. For anyone interested in technical communication and professional writing.

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