Two-wheeled 'unicycle' simplifies the bike

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John Roach , NBC News

Owning and riding a bicycle in the crowded, urban streets of tomorrow could be delightfully simple, according to the inventors of?a futuristic bike that looks like a unicycle with a spare wheel.

Known as the Bicymple, the two-wheeler is chain free. Instead, direct-drive pedals are on the rear wheel; the seat is?just above the rear wheel. A short frame connects to handlebars positioned over the second wheel.

The compact, simple design is a head turner that comes with an added twist: the rear wheel can be unlocked, allowing both the front and rear wheels to turn, making the bike more nimble in tight urban spaces.

The video below showcases the bike cruising parking garages and sidewalks in Bellingham, Wash., home of Josh Bechtel and Scalyfish Designs, who created the Bicymple.?

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John Roach is a contributing writer for NBC News Digital. To learn more about him, check out his website. For more of our Future of Technology series, watch the featured video below.

Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/futureoftech/two-wheeled-unicycle-simplifies-bike-1C6370917

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Gunmen wounds teenage rights activist in Pakistan

MINGORA, Pakistan (AP) ? A Pakistani official says a gunman has shot and wounded a teenaged children's rights activist on her way home from school in the volatile Swat Valley.

Dr. Tariq Mohammad at a hospital in Mingora says 14-year-old Malala Yousufzai was shot twice but her wounds were not life-threatening.

Another girl was also shot and is in stable condition.

A police chief in the town, Rasool Shah, says a van was about to leave the school grounds when a bearded man approached and asked which one of the girls was Malala.

A girl pointed to Malala but when the activist denied it was her, the gunmen shot them both.

Yousufzai has been honored for her work documenting atrocities committed by the Taliban in the Swat Valley when they controlled the area.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/gunmen-wounds-teenage-rights-activist-pakistan-100010855.html

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Calif. gov. takes action as gas prices keep rising

Costco members fill up with discounted gasoline at a Costco gas station in Van Nuys, Calif., Friday, Oct. 5, 2012. Californians woke up to a shock Friday as overnight gasoline prices jumped by as much as 20 cents a gallon in some areas, ending a week of soaring costs that saw some stations close and others charge record prices. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Costco members fill up with discounted gasoline at a Costco gas station in Van Nuys, Calif., Friday, Oct. 5, 2012. Californians woke up to a shock Friday as overnight gasoline prices jumped by as much as 20 cents a gallon in some areas, ending a week of soaring costs that saw some stations close and others charge record prices. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Gasoline prices higher than $5 per gallon are posted at a Menlo Park, Calif., Chevron station on Friday, Oct. 5, 2012. Californians woke up to a shock Friday as overnight gasoline prices jumped by as much as 20 cents a gallon in some areas, ending a week of soaring costs that saw some stations close and others charge record prices. The average price of regular gas across the state was nearly $4.49 a gallon, the highest in the nation, according to AAA's Daily Fuel Gauge report. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

Lorena Delara takes a picture of the total she paid after filling up her tank with gasoline at a gas station Friday, Oct. 5, 2012, in San Diego. Delara paid $81.27 for a little over 15 gallons of gas. A 20-cent jump overnight in California gas prices has put the state ahead of Hawaii for the nation's most expensive gas. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Rudy Rocha delivers gas to a Costco gas station in Tustin, Calif., Friday, Oct. 5, 2012. A 20-cent jump overnight in California gas prices has put the state ahead of Hawaii for the nation's most expensive gas. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Lorena Delara fills up her tank with gasoline at a gas station Friday, Oct. 5, 2012, in San Diego. A 20-cent jump overnight in California gas prices has put the state ahead of Hawaii for the nation's most expensive gas. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Gov. Jerry Brown is taking action in an effort to drive down the cost of gasoline as California drivers cope with record-breaking prices at the pump.

For the second straight day Sunday, the statewide average price for a gallon of regular rose to an all-time high, hitting $4.655, according to AAA.

That topped Saturday's price of $4.6140, which broke the previous record high of $4.6096 per gallon set on June 19, 2008.

Due to a temporary reduction in supply, California gas prices in recent days have surpassed those in Hawaii to become the highest in the nation.

Brown on Sunday ordered state smog regulators to allow winter-blend gasoline to be sold in California earlier than usual to bring down prices. Winter-blend gas typically isn't sold until after October 31. Few refineries outside the state are currently making summer-blend gas, putting the pressure on already-taxed California manufacturers.

In some locations, fuming motorists paid $5 or more per gallon while station owners had to shut down pumps in others.

A station in Long Beach had California's priciest gas at $6.65 for a gallon of regular, according to GasBuddy.com. Meanwhile customers at an outlet in San Pablo paid just $3.49, the lowest price in the state.

The average for a gallon of regular was $4.69 in Los Angeles, $4.71 in San Diego and San Francisco, $4.55 in Sacramento and $4.90 in Santa Barbara, according to GasBuddy.com.

The dramatic surge came after a power outage Monday at a Southern California refinery that reduced supply in an already fragile and volatile market, analysts said. The refinery came back online Friday and prices were expected to stabilize in the coming days.

Patrick DeHaan, senior petroleum analyst at GasBuddy.com, predicted the average price could peak as high as $4.85 before coming back down.

Associated Press

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Every third child incorrectly restrained in cars, study suggests

ScienceDaily (Oct. 8, 2012) ? Car accidents are the main cause of serious injury and death among children in Norway. A new study from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health shows that 37 per cent of all children under 16 years are incorrectly restrained in the car. 23 per cent of children are so poorly restrained that a collision would have very serious consequences.

The study results were presented at a seminar on traffic accidents in Oslo on 8th October.

"With the correct use of safety equipment, fewer children will be injured and killed in traffic," says Dr Marianne Skjerven-Martinsen from the research project "Barn i Bil" (Children in the Car) at the Institute's Division of Forensic Medicine and Drug Abuse Research.

Incorrect use of seat belts most prevalent

From April to August in 2011, Skjerven-Martinsen and her project team members completed a total of six roadside studies where they stopped cars in weekend traffic and examined how children were secured. The studies were carried out in collaboration with traffic police along high-speed roads in south-east Norway. A total of 1260 children under 16 years were included in the study. The results show that:

• 37 per cent of all children under16 years were incorrectly restrained in the car.
• 23 per cent were incorrectly restrained in such a way that severe or fatal injury would have been caused by a car crash on a high-speed road.
• Safety errors are highest in children aged 4-7 years.
• The five most common mistakes, irrespective of age, are; misplaced seat belts, twisted belts, loose straps, belt under the arm instead of over the shoulder and young children (<135 cm) sitting in a seat without side support.
• Booster cushions are the safety equipment most likely to be used incorrectly. Over half of the children who sat on them were incorrectly restrained.

"We see that adults want to use the equipment to protect their children, but they may lack knowledge of what can go wrong if they do not use the equipment properly. The aim of this study was to evaluate the use of incorrect child restraint in the car, according to the child's height, age and type of equipment. Thus we can give advice to parents, authorities and especially to industry on how to avoid incorrect restraint," says Marianne Skjerven-Martinsen.

Studied car accidents to learn about injury risk

In a previous study that included the "Children in the Car" project, the researchers studied traffic accidents in south-east Norway between 2007 and 2009 in which someone in the car was seriously injured or killed, and where children were present in the car. Studies of the accident scene, the involved vehicles and child restraint systems were performed within 24 hours of the accident. Response personnel and potential witnesses were interviewed, and clinical examinations of the injured children and autopsies of the deceased children were performed.

"In this study we found that 52 per cent of the children who were injured or killed were not well enough restrained. Belts out of position or loose belts were the most common mistake, and were involved in several cases of serious injury or death. We also saw examples of loose objects in the car that could cause serious physical injury in an accident by hitting the children directly or through seat movement," concludes Skjerven Martinsen.

In the ongoing main study in the "Children in the Car" project, all serious car accidents in south-east Norway where children are in the car are being investigated. To date, over 100 accidents are included. The results of this study will be published in spring 2013.

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The IPKat: Should patent law imitate copyright? Posner explains

Should patent law imitate copyright? Posner explains

Debate concerning the optimal scope and duration of intellectual property rights is well-known. But when is?Richard Posner, the celebrated co-author of law & economics must-have classic?The Economic Structure of Intellectual Property Law, to speak out, well, then it is time to sit down and listen carefully.?
In a?post?published last Sunday on The Becker-Posner Blog (which has just been commented?also?on The 1709 Blog), Judge Posner addressed the following question: Do patent and copyright law restrict competition and creativity excessively? The?answer?seems to be affirmative, although the need for reform is less acute in copyright than is in patent law (but it is sufficiently acute to warrant serious attention from US Congress and the courts).? This conclusion is quite interesting, in that copyright has been increasingly (and constantly) criticised as being too wide, long, and having been reformed contrary to the central tenet in the relevant?clause?of the?US Constitution, that is "to promote the Progress of Science and Useful Arts". In comparison to copyright, patent law has been perhaps subject to less (or, in any case, more nuanced) criticism.

According to Ponser, patent law should be reformed by taking into account some historical (in the sense that they tend to disappear nowadays) features of copyright. In particular, the fact that copyright protection was (rather than ?is?) different depending on the subject-matter at stake is an important aspect which should be adopted also in patent law:

"Although there are some industry-specific differences in patent law, for the most part patents?are ?one size fits all,? so far as length of protection and criteria and?procedures for the grant of a patent are concerned. In contrast, copyright?protection tends to vary considerably across different media. For example, when?recorded music came into being, instead of providing it with the same copyright?regime as already governed books and other printed material, Congress devised a?separate regime tailored to what were considered the distinctive?characteristics of music as a form of intellectual property. Patent law could?learn from that approach." To evaluate optimal patent protection for an invention, one has to consider both the cost of inventing and the cost of copying; the higher the ratio of the former to the?latter, the greater the optimal patent protection for the inventor. The ratio?is very high for pharmaceutical drugs, but this is not the case for other products (like software) which, nonetheless, are subject to the same regime as pharmaceutical drugs. According to Posner, software industry?is a progressive, dynamic industry rife with invention. However,? "the?conditions that make patent protection essential in the pharmaceutical industry?are absent. Nowadays most software innovation is incremental, created by teams?of software engineers at modest cost, and also ephemeral?most software?inventions are quickly superseded. Software innovation tends to be piecemeal?not?entire devices, but components, so that a software device (a cellphone, a?tablet, a laptop, etc.) may have tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands,?of separate components (bits of software code or bits of hardware), each one?arguably patentable. The result is huge patent thickets, creating rich?opportunities for trying to hamstring competitors by suing for infringement?and?also for infringing, and then challenging the validity of the patent when the?patentee sues you."? Although copyright enjoys excessive duration and courts tend to interpret?fair use?in too a narrow manner,? "The problem of copyright law is less acute than the problem of patent law, partly because copyright infringement is limited to deliberate copying?[but only as far as damages are concerned:?see?17 USC ?504(c)(2). In general, innocent infringement is not a defence, unless under particular circumstances:?see?17 USC ?302(e). In?1931?the US Supreme Court established in fact that "Intention?to infringe is not essential under the [Copyright] Act."];?patent infringement does not require proof even that the infringer was aware of the patent that he was?infringing."? This Kat believes that, whilst one-size-fits-all rights guarantee a higher degree of legal certainty, they are a good idea when such rights: 1) are limited in scope, and 2) concern homogeneous subject-matter. For both copyright and patents this does not seem to be the case any longer. In addition, there seems to be a global tendency to harmonise upwards. This is certainly true if we think of copyright.?For instance, the EU has recently adopted Directive?2011/77/EU, which extended the term of protection for performers and sound recordings from fifty to seventy years. This is just an example which shows how copyright is becoming increasingly similar to patents, as far as one-size-fits-all trends are concerned.?

The stance adopted by Posner, who highlights the importance of taking into account the specific characteristics of a given copyright/patent subject-matter when devising the appropriate protection regime, is refreshing, especially in light of the fact that current reforms have been supported by different rationales/justifications?altogether.

As commented on?Ars Technica, "while Posner doesn't have the power to directly change patent law, he is widely known and respected both in academia and the judiciary. So his views are likely to have an impact on how policymakers?perhaps including Supreme Court justices?view patent law and policy." Historical account of innocent infringement defence under US copyright?here.

Source: http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2012/10/should-patent-law-imitate-copyright.html

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Holly&#39;s Hobbies and Darbee Days: Happy October

Good morning friends! Happy October! ?I just love this month. ?It is such a busy and fun month in our family. ?There are so many birthdays. ?There are also visits to the pumpkin patch, apple orchards, fall festivals, a few craft shows and let's not forget trick or treating! ?It's so exciting.

It's a dark and rainy day here. ?Would be perfect to welcome October except they are predicting severe storms and possible tornadoes this afternoon. ?Ugh...NOT what I want to hear. ?Hoping the storms bypass us.

Darbee and I have worked to add some fall and Halloween touches to our home. ?I thought I would share them with all of you today.

Enjoy...

I love this old metal bucket. ?Found it at a yard sale. My mom?

made all of the spooky folks inside as well as the pillow. :)

Mr. Jack stands in my hallway cubby. ?Notice the small

block of wood with two candles? ?My Darbee made that for me while

working in the workshop with Papa one evening. ?She wanted to

make me something "primitive." ?What a special treasure.

I made all of these little pumpkins. ?I put them in an old wooden box my

dad made. ?This sits in the middle of my coffee table. ?Love it.

I love this little "shelf." ?I bought it while on a girls trip to Pigeon Forge.

We visited the Hen where Ms. Betty Crowe works and I found it there.

I made these pumpkins as well. ?They are in an old dough bowl given to me by my

grandmother. ?They decorate my dining room table.

My creepy corner. :) ?

This sits in my dining room.

I just love this little pumpkin pouch. ?It is hanging on my hoosier cabinet. ?

Sitting on my hoosier cabinet.?

Our prim fall tree. ?

I hope you have enjoyed your visit into our home.

I hope you have a great day!

Until next time....

Source: http://hollyanddarbee.blogspot.com/2012/10/happy-october.html

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Microsoft Won?t Make Own-Brand Windows Phone Any Time Soon ? That?s A ?Last Resort Strategy?

It's Surfaced again: the rumour that Microsoft is developing its own smartphone hardware in a bid to drive wider adoption of its Windows Phone OS. Ever since Microsoft distressed its desktop Windows OEMs by unveiling its own-brand tablet PC, called Surface, the logical leap required to imagine an own-brand Windows Phone has apparently been shrinking. But just because you can imagine a Surface Windows Phone, doesn't mean it's about to be unboxed.

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