Thin Air

Source: blog.washingtonpost.com --- 31 days ago
Let's put this into the "It's Not A Lot Of Money But" file. The small U.S. office responsible for beaming news and other information into Cuba awarded no-bid contracts worth more than $1 million, without sufficient justification, according to a new GAO report. Apparently the folks at the Office of Cuba Broadcasting (no, dear, I'm not making this up) felt they needed to ramp up radio and television broadcast rapidly after Fidel Castro fell ill. So they followed the lead of much of the rest of the federal government in recent years and simply awarded deals for the work, nevermind the regulations requiring competition and such. The manager of the awards was International Broadcasting Bureau, or IBB. "In certain respects, however, IBB did not document in its contract files key information or assumptions underlying its decisions to not seek competitive offers, limit the number of potential providers it considered, ...

Source: gizmodo.com --- 3 days ago
Researchers at the University of Tokyo have demonstrated a device that can create touchable, creepily invisible floating "objects" using focused ultrasound waves. Though the technology is early... ...

Source: www.theage.com.au --- 28 days ago
Police have not ruled out the possibility that missing nine-year-old Yadav Munohur was abducted on his way to a Hawthorn park three days ago. ...

Source: onthescene.blogs.foxnews.com --- 30 days ago
As I sit here in Islamabad, beads of sweat permanently residing on my forehead thanks to a temperature hovering around 100 degrees and Florida- like humidity, its hard to believe that just a helicopter’s flight from here three mountain climbers were plucked off an icy mountain face after one of the deadliest days in mountaineering [...] ...

Source: feeds.nydailynews.com --- 1 day ago
A 23-year-old schoolteacher disappeared from her Manhattan apartment days before classes started - and family and friends have launched a frantic search to find her. ...

Source: www.freerepublic.com --- 11 days ago
Riverside, California--The first witness with personal knowledge of what allegedly happened at Fallujah, Iraq in 2004 is expected to testify today against his former squad leader in US District Court. Former Lance Corporal Corey Carlisle was a Mormon missionary working in Indiana last year when he told a Naval Criminal Investigative Service investigator he heard and saw events that indicated several of his squad mates killed enemy prisoners in the opening hours of the battle. Carlisle told NCIS Special Agent Mark O Fox that his former squad leader Sgt. Jose L. Nazario, his fire team leader Cpl. Ryan Weemer, and... ...

Source: forum.myredbook.com --- 34 days ago
Into Thin Air: Did Steve Fossett fake his own death? Last September, America's great aviation daredevil took off on a routine solo ...

Source: www.detnews.com --- 24 days ago
After a three-year hiatus, Detroit Public Schools students are back on the airwaves of the district's 60-year-old radio station, touting the positive things happening in the city school system. Students' voices haven't been heard on WRCJ (90.9 FM) since Detroit Public Television assumed management operations in 2005. At the time, the district ran into financial trouble and sought outside help to reduce operating costs. ...

Source: upcoming.yahoo.com --- 18 days ago
he Thin Air Summit is an intimate in-depth educational conference on creating and understanding New Media. In person attendance will be limited 100 people making this event real opportunity to connect with the other attendees, share ideas and learn more about creating new media in depth. The event itself will start on Friday night, November 7th with an introductory workshop. The workshop will be about “Everything You Wanted to Know About New Media but were Afraid to Ask”. Saturday we transition to the conference with the focus on in-depth educational sessions and panels on creating, promoting and understanding new media. ...

Source: www.edn.com --- 8 days ago
The latest in a series... 10 days ago, when I last held forth on this particular topic, we'd figured out at least one reason why my VHF reception ... ...

Source: www.edn.com --- 29 days ago
Thanks to all of you for your feedback on last Wednesday's over-the-Air television reception two-part series and my last-Friday follow-up piece. La... ...

Source: www.lasvegassun.com --- 23 days ago
Thin Air = big heads at UNLV training camp ...

Source: www.edn.com --- 21 days ago
The latest in an ongoing series… As I mentioned last Friday, I've been temporarily using Antennas Direct's CPA 19 amplifier in an attempt t... ...

Source: www.denverpost.com --- 29 days ago
What promises to be red, white and blue — and short on O2? ...

Source: www.wait-till-i.com --- 34 days ago
I love the YUI loader as it is a great way of including the YUI on the fly. The coolest bits about it is that it gets the YUI components from the CDN and knows the dependencies so I don’t have to. So if I need the YUI for something, I don’t need extra SCRIPT [...] ...

Source: www.edn.com --- 18 days ago
The latest in an ongoing series… Near the beginning of the report I filed after KTVN chief broadcast engineer Jack Antonio's first visit to... ...

Source: www.etre.com --- 3 days ago
Yikes! If you thought that the Novint Falcon was a massive leap forward in terms of 3D haptic user interfaces, brace yourself for this... Researchers at the University of Tokyo have demonstrated a device that uses focused ultrasound waves to create touchable, invisible floating "objects" out of Thin Air! The technology is still in its infancy, but think of the possibilities...like "holograms you can feel" , for example! ...

Source: www.gizmodo.com.au --- 3 days ago
Researchers at the University of Tokyo have demonstrated a device that can create touchable, creepily invisible floating "objects" using focused ultrasound waves. Though the technology is early testing stages, its designers have already expressed an interest in weaponi- I mean, commercialising it for possible use in gaming and design applications. For now, the team has only been able to simulate resistance in one direction, but say that forming complex shapes and textures is plausible. ...

Source: www.azdailysun.com --- 1 day ago
As a three-year starter, Danielle Singer realizes the first game of the season can set the tone for the rest of the year. ...

Source: www.pnwlocalnews.com --- 7 days ago
At dawn on the bluff of Ebey’s Landing State Park, the sun sends its rays horizontally over Admiralty Inlet, spotlighting the dewy cabbages and alfalfa of nearby farmland. Just before sunset, as tapered clouds darken against the western sky, a pinkish light tints the tips of sailboats. ...