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free image and photo editing 2007-08-24 13:48:00 one of my all-time favs:)Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins.It started development as an undergraduate college senior design project mentored by Microsoft, and is currently being maintained by some of the alumni that originally worked on it. Originally intended as a free replacement for the Microsoft Paint software that comes with Windows, it has grown into a powerful yet simple image and photo editor tool. It has been compared to other digital photo editing software packages such as Adobe® Photoshop®, Corel® Paint Shop Pro®, Microsoft Photo Editor, and The GIMP. ITS FREEWARE http://www.getpaint.net/Powered by ScribeFire. ...

Con-way completes $750M acquisition of CFI 2007-08-23 17:25:00 Con-way Inc. announced Thursday, Aug. 23, that it has completed its $750 million acquisition of Contract Freighters Inc. (CFI), a privately held North American truckload carrier based in Joplin, Mo. Con-way says the acquisition adds to its portfolio a respected, well-managed company with significant market share and a substantial presence in the truckload market with its 3,000 employees and a fleet of more than 2,600 tractors and 7,000 trailers.sourcePowered by ScribeFire. ...

Autopatcher 2007-08-22 03:16:00 A very cool utility:)How many times did you have to leave your computer, after a format, todownload the updates you had before it? How many times did you have togo do something else, leaving your friend's computer download the loadof updates with their poor little dial-up modem? How many times haveyou wished for the updates to be portable from one computer to anotherand not require but a few mouse clicks to install? If you're the "computer guy" of the pack, no doubt the answer to theabove questions was "I've lost count"! And if you have one or twocomputers you should consider yourself lucky as well. Think of whatwould happen if you had to update ten or twenty computers daily! read more herePowered by ScribeFire. ...

DOT forging ahead with Mexican truck plan 2007-08-20 18:24:00 WASHINGTON -- The Department of Transportation announced that after reviewing thousands of public comments on the matter, it would resume its plans to allow 100 Mexican trucks to operate throughout the U.S. as part of a pilot project.According to Bloomberg, the announcement, published in Friday's Federal Register, means that DOT is ready to greenlight the project that was blocked by Congress earlier this summer.The program was originally scheduled to kick-off in April, but the House voted 411-3 to restrict the pilot granting about 1,000 Mexico-domiciled trucks access to U.S. highways beyond the 20-mile commercial zone they are currently bound by.The provisions ordered the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) to obey a number of safety and administrative requirements. At the time, Congress also mandated that the DOT's inspector general review the program.The FMCSA says the pilot will not proceed until the IG has approved the agency's amendments and reports to Congress. ...

pectin - kills prostate cancer cells 2007-08-20 15:28:00 A new University of Georgia study finds that pectin, atype of fiber found in fruits and vegetables and used in making jamsand other foods, kills prostate cancer cells. The study, published in the August issue of thejournal Glycobiology, found that exposing prostate cancer cells topectin under laboratory conditions reduced the number of cells by up to40 percent. UGA Cancer Center researcher Debra Mohnen and hercolleagues at UGA, along with Vijay Kumar, chief of research anddevelopment at the VA Medical Center in Augusta, found that the cellsliterally self-destructed in a process known as apoptosis. Pectin evenkilled cells that aren’t sensitive to hormone therapy andtherefore are difficult to treat with current medications. “Whatthis paper shows is that if you take human prostate cancer cells andadd pectin, you can induce programmed cell death,” said Mohnen, aprofessor of biochemistry and molecular biology. “If you do thesame with non-cancerous cells, cell death doesn’t occu ... Cancer

The Real Center of the Country 2007-08-19 22:25:00 Eight miles south north of Belle Fourche, South Dakota is a red-tipped fence post marking the smack-dab middle of the U.S. The spot was dedicated in 1959 (when Hawaii became a state -- if you thought the center was somewhere in Nebraska, you forgot to include Hawaii and Alaska) Story herePowered by ScribeFire. ...

crack down on outlaw truckers 2007-08-19 22:13:00 INDIANAPOLIS - State lawmakers want to crack down on outlaw truckers. There is an effort that could lead to more inspections, higher fines and more state troopers. Tuesday Wyss began hearings designed to spark a crackdown on outlaw truckers. With photos of crash scenes in front of them, lawmakers heard from a retired judge who suggested a new statewide court set up to deal only with the drivers of commercial vehicles. But they also heard that in most accidents involving trucks, its not the truck driver's fault. story herePowered by ScribeFire. ...

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San Andreas Fault Likely Much More Destructive Than Current Models Predict 2007-08-19 12:02:00 High-speed ruptures travelling along straight fault lines could explain why some earthquakes are more destructive than others, according to an Oxford University scientist. In this week’s Science, Professor Shamita Das suggests that ruptures in the Earth’s surface moving at 6km per second could make future earthquakes along California’s San Andreas fault much more destructive than current models predict.Professor Das compared data from the 1906 California earthquake withdata from a similar earthquake that occurred in 2001 in Kunlunshan,Tibet. The comparison suggests that, in both, the long straightportions of the fault enabled ruptures to travel twice as fast as theoriginal ‘shear’ wave travelling through the rock. Such‘super-shear’ waves were once thought to be impossible butcould now explain why similar magnitudes of earthquake can cause muchgreater devastation in some areas than others. ‘Long straight faults are more likely to reach high rupturespeeds,’ said Profess ...