In Engineering Live I read an interesting article titled, "How manufacturers can prepare for post-recession profitability." David Hatrick, a technology and innovation consultant with PA Consulting Group in Cambridge, UK, recommends that manufacturing companies adopt a three-pronged strategy in order that they can emerge from the downturn as winners.

I recently decided my little cabin in the woods needed some help in the heating department. Self sufficiency and reliability have become my mantra lately, so I needed a dependable heat source that my own two hands could supply the fuel for.

I devoted a sizeable chunk of July to chasing the Speckled Trout, Redfish, and Blue Crabs of Grand Isle, Louisiana. My eagerness to fill my freezer with fish fillets and lump crab meat would have been better served by learning how the tides and moon phases effect fishing in coastal areas. I've heard old fishermen talking about how good the fishing gets when the tides and moon are just right, but I always wrote that off as superstition and mumbo jumbo. I've learned it's not.

One of the principles that we talk about a lot in the security field is that "security by obscurity" is a delusion; systems that depend on proprietary or otherwise secret methods generally turn out not to be secure at all. The latest system to be successfully broken is the Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications [DECT] standard, used to encrypt radio transmissions between cordless telephones and their base stations.

Newspaper and magazine stories related to cancer are biased towards optimism, according to a research study conducted at the University of Pennsylvania. The study, which was reported in the March 22 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, involved the review of 436 cancer-related stories that were published in national magazines and large-scale newspapers from 2005 to 2007.

Part of the reason that Daniel Snyder continues to bring in coach after coach, free agent after free agent, and losing season after losing season is because its profitable for him.

Ample bike parking, lit bike paths, and the Smart Ways to School program are just three of the reasons Eugene has been named No. 5 among America's Top 50 Bike-Friendly Cities in a recent article by Bicycling magazine.

One loudly touted possible result of the Obama administration's endless assaults on Israel and the Netanyahu government was the possible collapse of said government. The badly kept secret around Washington being that neither Obama, Rahm Emmanuel, nor Hillary Clinton have much love for Benjamin Netanyahu.

The Thai government, which has been under-siege by pro-democracy protesters for nearly a month, has finally started to clamp down after protesters broke from their mostly nonviolent tactics yesterday to smash through the parliament compound gate with a truck.

President Kurmanbek Bakiyev in Kyrgyzstan -- who came to power in the Tulip Revolution in 2005 -- appears to have been ousted by massive protests that began on Tuesday in the provincial center of Talas and have since spread across the country.

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