Universal Power Adapter Provides Convenience and Less Waste (Scientific American) - You cannot plug your laptop into an electrical outlet or recharge your cell phone, iPod or cordless tools without each item’s custom DC adapter. Wouldn’t it be handy if one little black brick covered them all? “My family has 42 DC devices in our house,” says Frank P. Paniagua, Jr., founder and CEO of Green Plug in San Ramon, Calif. “We have adapters and wires everywhere. Instead we could have a ...
Gov Considers Many Scenarios with Bailout Tools (GlobeSt.com) - The markets are only beginning to learn the extent of the financial system's rescue package that was hastily signed into law more than a week ago. The crux of the plan is the Treasury Department's new power that allows it to buy the toxic debt now chocking the flow of credit.
Public Safety 10/10/08 (The Pantagraph) - Public Safety for Oct. 10 POLICE, FIRE, RESCUE Food, tools taken in burglary McLEAN -- An air compressor, chainsaw, drill, power saw, a 30 pack of beer, some ribs and Popsicles were stolen Tuesday or Wednesday from the garage of a residence in the 100 block of East Elm Street, McLean County sheriff’s police said.
