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Thursday, July 11, 2013
Sen. Tim Kaine to Hold First Twitter and Facebook Town Hall
Senator to mark first six months in office by talking with constituents about economy, job growth, immigration reform, reducing gun violence and support for veterans.
He's been a member of the U.S. Senate?now for six months and?Virginia's Sen. Tim Kaine?will mark the occasion with his first Twitter?and Facebook town hall.Kaine, a Democrat,?will hold his town hall?Wednesday, July 17 at 12 noon. Elected in November, Kaine, 55, will?answer questions about his first months in the Senate and will look for?feedback on?the economy and job growth, immigration reform, measures to reduce gun violence and?support for veterans.?
Constituents can view Kaine's voting record and more at?Project Vote Smart.?Kaine has sponsored and introduced?three bills and co-sponsored 29 bills, according to Congress.gov.
You can find Kaine on Twitter at?@SenKaineOffice?and on Facebook at?U.S. Senator Tim Kaine.?Questions can be submitted now on Kaine's Twitter and Facebook pages by?using: #AskTim.
Using social media to communicate with constituents has become popular among politicians?in recent years. Virginia's senior senator,?Sen. Mark Warner, held his first Twitter town hall in February 2012.?President Obama held his first Twitter town hall in 2011.?
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No Central AC, No Problem: Six Ways to Keep Your Home Cool All ...
Window air conditioners or central air aren't the only ways to cool down a hot house. Check out these alternative solutions from the team at The Family Handyman.
Whole-House Fans
Whole-house fans may seem old fashioned, but they're enjoying renewed popularity. The idea behind them is simple: A powerful fan draws cooler early morning and evening air through open doors and windows and forces it up through the attic and out the roof vents. This sends hot air up and out, cooling your house and your attic. These fans are commonly mounted in an upstairs stairwell or hallway ceiling where there's at least 3 ft. of clearance above the fan.
Main Advantages
- Energy savings. They use 90 percent less energy than an air conditioner, and in dry climates with cool mornings and evenings, they can actually replace your AC system.
- Easy installation. With a helper and basic tools, you can install a whole-house fan in a weekend.
Main Disadvantages
- They can't cool inside temps any lower than outside temps and they can't dehumidify.
- They can make allergies worse. Whole-house fans draw in outdoor pollen and dust.
- Larger fans move air quickly, but they cost more to purchase and install. They also require significant attic ventilation and make more noise than smaller attic fans.
For the best results, match the fan size to your floor plan, cooling needs and available attic ventilation. Call your local utility and check energystar.gov to see which models qualify for local rebates and the federal tax credit in 2010. Fans cost $200 to $1,200.
Portable Air Conditioners
Portable air conditioners are similar to window units in operation. They sit on the floor (on casters) and use an adapter kit to vent the hot air through a hose running through a window, a wall, or a sliding glass door.
Main Advantages
- They're easy to install and use.
- You can move them from room to room.
Main Disadvantages
- They're almost twice as expensive and use more energy than a similar-size window unit with the same cooling capacity.
- At this time there are no Energy Star?qualified portable room air conditioners.
Portables range in price from $300 to $1,500 depending on the size, features, and efficiency.
Mini-Split System
Long popular in Europe and Japan, a mini-split system air conditioner (sometimes called ductless AC), is a hybrid of central air and a window unit. A small condenser sits outside and connects through a conduit to an inside evaporator mounted high on the wall or ceiling.
Main Advantages
- Silent operation. The condenser sits outside, it doesn?t let in street noise, and the indoor fan is whisper quiet.
- The system can be mounted anywhere thanks to the small size of the indoor and outdoor components. The conduit, which houses the power cable, refrigerant tubing, suction tubing, and a condensate drain, runs through a 3-in. hole hidden behind the indoor evaporator.
- Zoning flexibility lets you cool rooms individually.
Main Disadvantage
- Cost. Professional installation costs $1,500 to $2,500 including parts and labor. You can install it yourself, but it's fairly complicated and you'll most likely void the manufacturer's warranty. Systems with an efficiency rating of 16 or higher qualify for the federal tax credit in 2010.
In-Wall AC Unit
An in-wall air conditioner is basically the same as a window unit. The primary difference is that it has vents on the back instead of along the sides and it sits flush or extends only slightly farther out from the exterior wall.
Main Advantages
- Permanent installation means you don?t have to lug it in and out twice a year, and it?s not an easy entry point for burglars.
- It doesn?t block a window.
- The chassis unit sits securely inside a metal sleeve that is installed into the wall. The chassis unit slides out for easy servicing.
- The size of the unit isn?t limited to a standard window opening, so it can be bigger and more powerful than a window unit.
Main Disadvantages
- Installation is more involved. Cutting a hole in the outside wall of your home may be difficult depending on the exterior sheathing of your home.
- You may need to install a new electrical circuit. Some larger units require 240 volts (although most smaller units can be plugged into a standard 120-volt outlet).
Energy Star-qualified models use 25 percent less energy than models made before late 2000. Check with your utility for energy rebates. Some units provide both cooling and heating. Prices range from $400 for cooling a 400- to 700-sq.-ft. room to $700 or so for cooling/heating a 1,000- sq.-ft. space.
Ventilator Fan
If you have a hot room in an otherwise comfortable house, you can pump existing cool air into that hot room using a special fan installed in the wall or floor.
Main Advantages
- No extra cooling costs. The level-to-level ventilator fan (shown) moves existing cool air from one level (from the basement or a mini-split system, for example) to another level of the house through an adjustable sleeve installed through the floor/ceiling.
- A ventilator fan can blow conditioned air up or down, depending on the position of the blower unit. There are also room-to-room ventilator fans to move the conditioned air.
Main Disadvantages
- To install the fan, you?ll have to cut a hole through the floor/ceiling and run an electrical line to the unit.
- It?s only practical if you have an abundance of existing cool air that?s easily accessible to your hot room.
Level-to-level ventilator fans (around $200) can also be used to move warm air through the living space during the winter. Search online for ?level-to-level fan.?
Duct or Vent Booster Fan
If you have forced-air cooling but there's still a room that's hotter than all the rest, a duct or vent booster fan can increase the flow of cool air into that room. Two types of booster fans are available.
An in-line duct booster fan fits inside the duct of the room you're trying to cool. You mount the fan near the outlet and it automatically kicks on when your cooling system runs. Vent and register booster fans sit directly on top of or replace ceiling, floor, or wall registers. Depending on the model, you can set it to operate automatically, control it with a switch, or operate it by a remote control.
Main Advantages
- Easy to install and use.
- Reasonably priced. In-line duct booster fans are available in both plug-in and hard-wired models and retail for $30 to $150. Vent and register booster units plug into a nearby electrical outlet or can be hard-wired. Register and vent duct booster fans cost $40 to $100.
Main Disadvantages
- Less powerful (and cheaper) in-line units have a lighter-gauge housing that is more prone to rattling.
- Duct or vent booster fans may not make a significant cooling difference if your ductwork or overall cooling system is inefficient, sized improperly or faulty.
Search online for ?in-line duct booster fan? or ?register duct booster fan? to find dealers. (These fans can also be used to increase the flow of warm air through ducts during the winter months.)
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Brussels unveils Single Resolution Mechanism for banking union (Video)
Despite strong German opposition, the European Commission on Wednesday unveiled plans to set up a single body to deal with failing banks. Regarded as a pillar in Europe's so-called banking union, the new plan would allow the Commission to shut down any of Europe's struggling banks, even if the national authorities disagree.
The proposal is seen as an attempt to break the vicious link between indebted national governments and problematic banks. 'There is like an obvious interdependence in the Euro zone between States and banking institutions. In the Dexia and Fortis cases just to mention them as an example, we saw that we didn't have the necessary decision process to resolve a bank and we are going to put an end to that fragmentation. We are going to equip ourselves to provide in advance to decide together and resolve together', said EU commissioner for Internal Market and Services Michel Barnier.?
Under the Single resolution Mechanism?, a resolution fund worth 55 billion euros would also be set up.
However, the new proposal may put the Commission on a collision course with Germany. The biggest eurozone economy believes that such a mechanism is not compatible with EU treaties.
'We put on the table of Heads of States, governments and MEP's, a capital requirement fund, a single supervision and now we are putting on the table the tools and means to organise well-prepared resolution and repair', said EU commissioner for Internal Market and Services Michel Barnier.?
Earlier in June, EU leaders agreed to make a decision on the mechanism by the end of 2013, leaving time to be adopted before the end of the current European Parliament term in 2014.?
Date: Thu, 2013-07-11 10:56
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Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Deployment Options for vCenter Server in a Horizon View Pod ...
Andre Leibovici shows you how in Horizon View 5.2 you can use a single vCenter Server to manage up to 10,000 desktops in a single Horizon View Pod.
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Sunday, July 7, 2013
Solar Impulse airplane takes it slow on last leg of American odyssey
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Solar Impulse
Solar Impulse chairman Bertrand Piccard flashes a thumbs-up sign as he greets pilot Andre Borschberg after the plane's landing Saturday night at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport. The two men are wearing yellow scarves to pay tribute to Antoine de Saint-Exupery, author of "The Little Prince."
The Swiss-built Solar Impulse airplane ended its two-month-long, solar-powered trip across America with a nail-biter of a flight from Washington to New York on Saturday.
"Maybe if I didn't have 10 cameras pointed at me, I would cry," Swiss adventurer Bertrand Piccard, one of the pilots for the coast-to-coast journey, said just before the 11:09 p.m. ET landing at New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport.
The extra drama came from the discovery in the trip's final hours that the ultra-light airplane had suffered an 8-foot-long (2.5-meter-long) tear in the fabric on the lower side of the left wing. Andre Borschberg, who was filling the pilot's seat for the Washington-to-New York segment of the "Across America" journey, noticed a balance issue with the wings on Saturday afternoon ? and pictures taken by a helicopter flying nearby confirmed the damage.
Neither Borschberg nor the plane were thought to be in danger; nevertheless, the Solar Impulse team did everything it could to reduce the risk. That meant considering all the options for ending the flight, including the possibility of bailing out over the Atlantic. It meant passing up a Statue of Liberty photo op and working out a deal with air traffic controllers to land the plane three hours earlier than originally planned. And it meant changing the landing procedure.
Borschberg brought the airplane in low and slow, without air braking, to reduce the stress on the wing. The spindly craft seemed to float to a stop on the runway ? prompting cheers at JFK as well as at Solar Impulse's mission control center in Switzerland. Moments later, a stepladder was set up so that Piccard could greet Borschberg in the cockpit. And despite what he said, Piccard could be seen wiping at his eyes after the two men hugged.
"This was supposed to be the shortest and easiest leg," Piccard said later. "It has been the most difficult one."
Early takeoff, late landing
The "Across America" odyssey began on May 3 with a flight from Moffett Field, near San Francisco, to Phoenix, and continued with hops to Dallas-Fort Worth, St. Louis, Cincinnati and Washington. Piccard and Borschberg, co-founders of the Solar Impulse venture, traded turns piloting the single-seat plane. For most of those flights, the plane had to leave early and wait until late to land, so as to reduce the potential for disrupting commercial air traffic.
Solar Impulse
A tear in the fabric on the underside of the Solar Impulse airplane's wing forced a slightly early end to the final flight of its two-month-long "Across America" odyssey.
Saturday's trip began with a 4:46 a.m. ET takeoff from Washington's Dulles International Airport. The solar-powered plane's top speed is around 45 mph (72 kilometers per hour), but even at that speed, there were plenty of hours to spare for the 228-mile (336-kilometer) trip.
While Borschberg flew in circles off the coast of New Jersey, waiting for clearance to land, he participated in media interviews and a video hangout with such luminaries as James Cameron, the famed film director and ocean explorer; and Erik Lindbergh, the grandson of aviation pioneer Charles Lindbergh.
Before the wing's damage came to light, Borschberg also had time to reflect on the meaning of Solar Impulse's odyssey: Swiss corporate backers have put up ?90 million ($115 million) over the past decade for the project, which is aimed at demonstrating technologies ranging from solar-power generation and storage to ultra-light composite materials.
Ultra-light, and powered by light
Solar Impulse weighs as much as an automobile, but has the wingspan of a Boeing 747 jumbo jet. Scooter-type electric motors drive the single-seat plane's propellers. All of the power comes from almost 12,000 solar cells installed on its wings and horizontal stabilizer. Excess electricity is stored in 800 pounds' (363 kilograms') worth of batteries, so the plane can theoretically fly day and night.
"We have an airplane which has almost unlimited endurance," Borschberg told NBC News. "This airplane could have flown directly from California to New York, so it?s fully sustainable in terms of energy. The limiting factor is the pilot."
Piccard is already in the record books for the first-ever nonstop balloon flight around the world in 1999 (which he flew along with Brian Jones). He and Borschberg have been flying the Solar Impulse prototype in Europe and Africa over the past couple of years, but with the end of the "Across America" trip, this particular prototype will be retired. A more advanced solar-powered plane is being built for an even more ambitious series of flights around the world in 2015.
Clean tech on the ground
Piccard has said that solar-powered planes could conceivably go commercial within five years or so, but Borschberg emphasized the potential applications for clean-energy technologies on the ground.
"All the partners who are involved with this project developed technologies not for the aviation world, but for their own customers," Borschberg told NBC News. "The customers are maybe homebuilding, maybe the automobile industry, maybe appliances. That?s what they are looking for, and that?s what?s slowly taking place. So if part of the legacy could be to show a way how to increase the efficiency of what we do and reduce the energy consumption but keeping the same quality of life, that would be a wonderful achievement for the project."
Cameron, who is as proud of his ocean adventures as he is of his blockbuster films "Titanic" and "Avatar," paid tribute to Borschberg and Piccard during Saturday's Google+ Hangout.
"What Solar Impulse stands for is renewable energy ? not just electric aircraft, but use of solar power in general, and this is something that?s going to be fundamental and critical to the survival of the human race," Cameron said. "You've got people that are standing for something, committing themselves, putting their personal asses on the line to make a point for the betterment of human civilization, and I greatly applaud that."
The consciousness-raising is due to continue after Saturday night's landing: Borschberg and Piccard will participate in a NASDAQ opening-bell ceremony and are to meet with U.N. Secretary General Ban-Ki Moon on Tuesday.
More about the Solar Impulse odyssey:
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Tuesday, July 2, 2013
HP exec says company will re-enter smartphone market, is working on a device that offers a unique experience
HP and phones? It's not over, apparently. The company's Senior Director of Consumer PCs and Tablets for Asia-Pacific, Yam Su Yin, has told The Indian Express that HP isn't done with smartphones and is already working on a new device. While its focus (for now) remains on tablets, laptops and its all-in-ones, it's wisely decided not to ignore the ever-increasing influence of smartphones, despite that whole messy Palm saga. When asked about a chances of a future HP smartphone, she said: "The answer is yes but I cannot give a timetable. It would be silly if we say no. HP has to be in the game."
"Being late you have to create a different set of proposition[s]. There are still things that can be done. It's not late. When HP has a smartphone, it will give a differentiated experience." We'd put money on an Android device being in the works, given several of HP's recent product launches, but to compete an the increasingly two-horse smartphone race, HP will have to ensure that its "differentiated experience" offers something pretty pervasive to win over customers.
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