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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) ? A firefight broke out between U.S. forces and their Afghan army allies in eastern Afghanistan Sunday, killing two Americans and three Afghan soldiers and pushing the number of U.S. troops killed in the long-running war 2,000.

The fighting started Saturday when what is believed to have been a mortar fired by insurgents struck a checkpoint set up by U.S. forces in Wardak province, said Shahidullah Shahid, a provincial government spokesman. He said the Americans thought they were under attack from a nearby Afghan army checkpoint and fired on it, prompting the Afghan soldiers to return fire.

The Afghan Defense Ministry said the gunbattle was the result of a "misunderstanding" between international forces and Afghan soldiers manning a checkpoint in the Sayd Abad district.

NATO's International Security Assistance Force, commonly referred to as ISAF, provided a different account.

"After a short conversation took place between (Afghan army) and ISAF personnel firing occurred which resulted in the fatal wounding of an ISAF soldier and the death of his civilian colleague," the coalition said in a statement. It said the three Afghan soldiers died "in an ensuing exchange of fire."

NATO did not say whether it considered this an "insider" attack on foreign forces by Afghan allies.

There has been rising tide of such attacks in which Afghan soldiers or police assault their international allies. The killings pose one of the greatest threats to NATO's mission in the country, endangering a partnership key to training up Afghan security forces and withdrawing international troops.

While it may be days before it becomes clear who fired on whom first, the incident illustrates how tense relations have become between international troops and their Afghan allies.

Officials on both sides went into damage control mode, arguing that Saturday's violence did not mark a new low in Afghan-U.S. relations and urging patience while investigators tried to figure out exactly what had happened.

The deputy commander of NATO's military force in Afghanistan, British Lt. Gen. Adrian Bradshaw, called a last-minute news conference in Kabul to address the incident, even though he had few details to give.

He said the initial report of an insider attack should be amended to note that the incident "is now understood possibly to have involved insurgent fire," and tried to stress that relations between international troops and their Afghan allies "are very strong and very effective."

A spokesman for the Afghan Defense Ministry, Gen. Zahir Azimi, also sought to downplay the incident.

"In a misunderstanding shooting broke out between Afghan army and ISAF forces. As a result of the shooting, three army soldiers were killed, three other soldiers were wounded and number of ISAF forces were killed and wounded," Azimi said in a statement.

One U.S. official confirmed that the service member killed was American, while another confirmed that the civilian was also American. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because the nationality of the dead had not yet been formally announced.

The number of American military dead reflects an Associated Press count of those members of the armed services killed inside Afghanistan since the U.S.-led invasion on Oct. 7, 2001.

In the south meanwhile, three Afghan police officers were killed when insurgents attacked a checkpoint in Helmand province Sunday morning, provincial police spokesman Fareed Ahmad said.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/us-afghan-forces-clash-leaving-5-dead-154456247.html

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In this Sept. 18, 2008 photo, Danny Bonaduce poses as he arrives at NBC's Fall Premiere Party, in Los Angeles. Former child TV star Danny Bonaduce says a crazed fan bit him during an event at a Washington state casino. The former "Partridge Family" actor tells The News Tribune of Tacoma that the woman asked him if she could kiss him and then sank her teeth into his cheek for about a minute until others pulled her off. Bonaduce, who works these days as a radio disc jockey in Seattle, said the woman was taken into custody Friday, Sept. 28, 2012, but he doesn't plan to press charges. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) ? Former child TV star Danny Bonaduce says a crazed fan bit him during an event at a Washington state casino.

The former "Partridge Family" actor tells The News Tribune of Tacoma (http://is.gd/u3wfjM ) the woman asked him if she could kiss him and then sank her teeth into his cheek for about a minute until others pulled her off.

Bonaduce, who works these days as a radio DJ in Seattle, said the woman was taken into custody Friday, but he doesn't plan to press charges.

His face had a bright red mark a day later, when he said what he was thinking during the attack, "Bath salts," he said, referencing a designer drug linked to bizarre and violent behavior in users.

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When you run as many services as Google does, every once in a while you're going to have to do some pruning. Evidently Mountain View's got the secateurs out, having just announced the next batch of its projects that will be ~~getting axed~~ wound down. For the chop are: AdSense for Feeds, Classic Plus, Spreadsheet Gadgets, Places for Android, and +1 Reports in Webmaster Tools. Other services are being merged into existing properties to prevent overlap, such as Google Storage for Picasa and Drive -- which are now consolidated -- and Insights for Search is now part of Google Trends. Naturally, the search giant claims this is all about streamlining, and improving other core products. If the retired service involves a paid subscription, or legacy data, then you'll need to check the specifics on the official blog to find out how this will affect you, which fortunately for you, is just a tap of the source link away.

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SEABOURN ADDS SEVENTH CONTINENT ON ?ULTIMATE ANTARCTICA & PATAGONIA? VOYAGES

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Seattle, August 30, 2012? ??More than twenty years after the company pioneered an entirely new style of small-ship, ultra-luxury cruising,?Seabourn?plans to extend its repertoire of highly desirable cruising destinations to include Antarctica for the first time in 2013. Seabourn Quest, the newest ship in Seabourn?s award-winning fleet, will begin a series of four 21- to 24-day voyages sailing between Valpara?so, Chile and Buenos Aires, Argentina starting in November of 2013.

?Seabourn is already renowned for our extensive portfolio of worldwide itineraries,? noted Seabourn?s president Richard Meadows. ?Antarctica was the only continent that Seabourn did not feature in our itineraries. This expands our global reach to all seven continents and builds on our already impressive list of exotic destinations. Seabourn is very proud to be bringing our highly rated ultra-luxury cruise experience to Antarctica.?

The all-suite ship will cruise the Chilean coast, including visits to Puerto Montt for the Chilean Lakes District, Castro on the huge island of Chilo?, and Puerto Chacabuco, from where guests can tour the magnificent Torres del Paine National Park. Then the intimate ship will thread the glaciers, peaks and channels of the Chilean Fjords, culminating in a transit of the Beagle Channel and its spectacular Glacier Alley. Weather permitting, following a call at Ushuaia in Argentina?s Tierra del Fuego, Seabourn Quest will cruise by Cape Horn bound for the Southern Ocean. Guests on board will experience five days in Antarctica, including scenic cruising of highlights such as the breathtaking Lemaire Channel, picturesque Paradise Bay and the Gerlache Strait. An experienced Antarctic expedition staff will ensure that guests enjoy the best of the numerous available sites for landings and cruising in smaller inflatable boats, based on real-time weather and wildlife reports during their Antarctic adventures. Scientists, naturalists and other lecturers in a number of disciplines will speak on board and accompany guests ashore to add insights to their once-in-a-lifetime experiences.

During the South Atlantic portion of the voyage, guests will enjoy visits to Port Stanley, in the Falkland Islands, and Montevideo, Uruguay?s capital, en route to or from Buenos Aires.

A 24-day Holiday version will include two days exploring the sub-Antarctic wildlife Eden of South Georgia Island, renowned for its beauty and its vast, teeming rookeries of king penguins and other seabirds, as well as breeding elephant and fur seals.

Seabourn?s new Ultimate Antarctica & Patagonia sailings open for sale on Tuesday September 4, 2012 for sailing beginning in November of 2013.

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While many college graduates are struggling to find jobs, alumni from certain schools are regularly pulling in six-figure salaries.

For the second year in a row, Princeton University's students have been pulling in the biggest paychecks, according to new data from salary research site PayScale.com. This year, Princeton graduates with at least 10 years of experience in their field of work are earning an average salary of $137,000.

Rounding out the top 10, are Harvey Mudd College, California Institute of Technology, the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, the United States Military Academy at West Point, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lehigh University, the Polytechnic Institute of New York University, Babson College and Stanford University.

Graduates from these schools earned an average mid-career salary of $122,500 -- up 5 percent from last year. This year's increase follows three years of declines, according to PayScale.

The schools with the highest-paid graduates typically fall into one of two categories: They're either engineering schools, since engineering is the highest-paid major, or they're very prestigious, so companies tend to recruit these grads first -- and pay them handsomely -- when making hiring decisions.

"Not only do (the most prestigious schools like Stanford) offer high-paying majors as well, but there's a level of notoriety that allows people to move into jobs more easily and get higher-paying jobs, and there's also a strong alumni network that helps you get jobs," said Katie Bardaro, lead economist at PayScale.

Graduates earn the highest starting salaries at the United States Military Academy at West Point, where alumni with five years of experience or less make an average of $76,000. The United States Naval Academy at Annapolis and Massachusetts Institute of Technology follow, with average starting salaries of $72,200 and $68,400.

Among the 10 schools with the lowest-paid graduates, the average mid-career salary remained steady this year, at $44,490. The five schools with the lowest-paid graduates were The Art Institute of Pittsburgh (the online division), Benedict College in South Carolina, Mississippi Valley State University, University of the Cumberlands in Kentucky, and Bethel University in Tennessee.

Lower earning potential is common among schools that offer traditionally low-paying majors, like art, said Bardaro. These schools are also often located in areas with lower cost of living, and many don't carry the same level of prestige as the top schools on the list, so it can be hard for students to stick out in a big stack of resumes.

Majors with the biggest pay-offs: The highest-paying majors this year were petroleum engineering, with an average mid-career salary of $163,000, followed by aerospace engineering, which pays an average $118,000. Meanwhile, child and family studies majors can work for more than 10 years in their field and still only earn an average $37,700. Social work is the next lowest-paying major, with a mid-career salary or $45,300.

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UCLA researchers say last year's Carmageddon improved air quality
Air quality near the closed 10-mile portion of the 405 Freeway reached levels 83% better than typical weekends, according to a team at UCLA's Institute of the Environment and Sustainability.The reprieve lasted for only one weekend, but UCLA researchers say that last year's Carmageddon closure of the 405 Freeway rid Los Angeles of both traffic and another notorious problem: pollution.

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Avalanna Routh, dubbed "Mrs. Bieber," dies of brain cancer at age 6

Remember that sweet little girl who got to ?marry? Justin Bieber? Avalanna Routh, who stole the hearts of just about everyone who knew her, died on Wednesday morning at the age of 6. The LA Times reports that upon hearing of her death, Bieber tweeted, ?just got the worst news ever. one of the greatest spirits i have ever known is gone. please pray for her family and for her. RIP Avalanna. i love you.?

Avalanna died of a ?rare and very aggressive cancer,? according to The LA Times. The little girl was known for her vivacious and upbeat personality, even in the midst of her terminal illness. Avalanna earned the nickname ?Mrs. Bieber? when staff at the Dana-Farber/Children?s Hospital Cancer Center staged a pretend wedding for Avalanna to Justin Bieber. The party included flowers, a wedding cake and singer, and a red shirt for Avalanna that read ?Future Mrs. Bieber.? The celebrity spent an evening with Avalanna for Valentine?s Day, where they played board games and signed autographs for each other. Today.com reports that Bieber tweeted after their date: ?That was one of the best things I have ever done. She was AWESOME. Feeling really inspired right now.?

Avalanna inspired more than just Justin Bieber. ?She was one of the most vivacious, outgoing, engaging, precocious kids I?ve ever known,? said Dr. Charles Roberts, a pediatric oncologist who worked at Dana-Farber/Children?s Hospital Cancer Center, in an interview with the Los Angeles Times.

The following Tweet report, later confirmed by several media outlets, announced her death on Wednesday: ?Our darling Avalanna went to Heaven this morning. Oh Avalanna, the brightest star?? you took our hearts with you, our greatest Love.?

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Thanks to the HomeAways and Airbnbs of the world, more and more people are looking to rent their apartments and homes. There are currently some six million active vacation rentals in the U.S. and Europe, and this number is growing. However, the problem is that the vast majority of vacation rental owners aren't taking advantage of the available technology to market, manage or share their properties. MyVR, a San Francisco-based startup that graduated from Y Combinator in March, sees a big opportunity to help owners and operators alleviate the offline pain of managing their vacation rentals and help bring them new (or at least more regular) business.

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Windows on Evolution - can you create the iconic image of this extraordinary idea?

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Charles Darwin?s grand discovery of evolution by natural selection (oh and hey ? what?s up, Wallace!) has been with us for over 150 years and transformed medicine, society and any number of scientific disciplines. Paleoart and nature illustration are thriving, lively fields.

So why are we still stick with the Ascent of Man, March of Progress imagery as the iconic image of evolution? (I hesitate to call it Ascent of ?Humans? ? the gender bias of the image is as outdated and iconic as the linear path it suggests.)

The original "March of Progress" (1965) by Rudolph Zallinger for Time-Life books. This image should totally be a jumble of primates jockeying for position and way more crowded. Someone fix this.

It?s speaks volumes that even an inaccurate and tongue-in-cheek version of this image can cause such dissonance in?creationists when the successive primates would like to be a Pepper too.

Really creationists? *Really??*

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Science-Art Nature, a group with one of the shortest and most elegant mission statements I?ve ever read, wants to see if today?s generation in the burgeoning field of science-art can do better than a line-up of sexist apes or evolution-via-soda.

From the Windows on Evolution site:

?Science Art-Nature invites you to participate in a juried virtual exhibit,?WINDOWS ON EVOLUTION:? An Artistic Celebration of Charles Darwin, commemorating Darwin Day, February 12, 2013.

The top 40 entries will be posted on Darwin Day, but all qualifying works will eventually be added.

The exhibit will remain accessible through the Science Art-Nature website indefinitely.

?We intend to have the exhibit announced through various websites including that of the Darwin Day Organization.? Darwin Day, as described there, is ?an international celebration of science and humanity.?? Visit their?site to see videos, lectures on evolution, and information on Darwin, evolution, Darwin Day events and more.

?As always, our aim is to display and promote the best contemporary Science Art and to encourage discourse between the scientific and artistic communities.?

(More information and the forms here.)

Deadline for entries is October 15th, and there?s a small fee to enter. They?re also taking donations to help make this exhibit free to view and giving away swag to donors over certain thresholds ? the standard crowdsourcing-for-awesomeness model.

Have you got what it takes to describe evolution and fire the imagination of the masses? A painting almost done, an image in your sketchbook, an idea noodling around in your head that you?ve never gotten to? Now?s the time to create and add to the grandeur of modern science art and communication.

Make sure to hover over this image at the Windows on Evolution page to reveal all the species! ? Carel Brest Van Kempen.

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From Chick-fil-A to Apple, more and more major companies are taking policy positions on gay marriage. Arguably, there's a business case for supporting it. Google, Starbucks, Nike, General Mills, and other big brands have all opened themselves up to both the potential risk and opportunity of supporting LGBT equality. Even Lloyd Blankfein, CEO of Goldman Sachs, announced his support in a Human Rights Campaign public service announcement: "America's corporations learned long ago that equality is just good business and it's the right thing to do."

There has been a steady increase in the number of large employers including sexual orientation in non-discrimination policies and offering same-sex partner benefits. A 2010 Mercer survey of about 3,000 companies found that same-sex benefits were offered by 72 percent of companies employing more than 20,000 people. Americans align themselves with brands that reflect their values ? and according to recent opinion polls by Gallup, ABC, and CNN, marriage equality is now supported by a majority of mainstream Americans.

Surely no company wants to discriminate, and all should consider the growing support for one of the last frontiers of federal civil rights. But there are also concrete business reasons for a company announcing its support of LGBT equality ? all tied to the bottom line.

It boosts employee recruitment and retention. The 15th Annual PWC Global CEO Survey (2012) section titled "The Talent Challenge" focused on the impact talent recruitment and retention has on business growth and competitive differentiation. The study also highlighted the increasing recognition of the importance of employee engagement in improved performance and retention. As a recognized and critical success driver, it is not surprising that some companies have cited talent as a key argument for supporting LGBT equality. Additionally, with LGBT employees making up 5-10% of the working population, companies neglecting to promote an inclusive culture will likely miss out on the opportunity to attract top talent from this segment of the workforce.

Former President Bill Clinton emphasized this point with a message to North Carolinians earlier this year, urging them to vote against the state's proposed ban same-sex marriage. He said: "What it will change is North Carolina's ability to keep businesses, attract new jobs, and attract and keep talented entrepreneurs." Microsoft echoed Clinton's argument with a post on the company blog in January 2012 announcing its alliance with other Washington State-based businesses taking a stand in support of marriage equality: "As other states recognize marriage equality, Washington's employers are at a disadvantage if we cannot offer a similar, inclusive environment to our talented employees, our top recruits and their families."

Corporate cultures where diversity and openness thrive will more likely attract top talent, especially young, creative, and entrepreneurial candidates. For example, when Dow Chemical received recognition from the Human Rights Campaign for its support of LGBT rights, the company agreed with this sentiment: "We have long believed that the ability to present a truly diverse and inclusive workplace is critical to our success and integral to our strategy to attract, develop and retain the best and brightest talent." This kind of inclusive environment not only warms the LGBT talent base to your company, but also their friends and family, who happen to make up 60% of the population according to a recent CNN poll.

The marketplace demands it. Back in 1991, a Wall Street Journal article included a chart entitled, "A Dream Market," comparing gay households to the national average, noting the relative potential advertising appeal for a variety of industries. The two decades that have followed have seen an increase in marketing and advertising to the LGBT market that Marketing firm Witeck-Combs estimated at $800 billion in 2011.

LGBT marketing is on the rise. In May, JCPenney released a Father's Day ad featuring two dads and their kids; the ad debuted several months after the organization One Million Moms attempted to boycott the department store for selecting Ellen DeGeneres as its spokesperson. In June, it was reported that Apple's new mobile operating system, iOS6, will include gay and lesbian couple icons as emoticon selections. Kraft Foods and its Oreo brand celebrated 2012 Pride Month with a colorful (and ultimately controversial) Facebook posting and tweet of the iconic sandwich cookie. And GM received a nomination from the 2012 Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation Amplifier Awards for an advertisement that targeted LGBT consumers with a Chevy Volt "coming out" as an electric vehicle.

In this vein, many companies are taking a stance based on economic competitiveness and business opportunity. After Macy's came under attack for releasing a catalogue featuring a same-sex couple atop a wedding cake, the department store released this statement: "Macy's proudly serves a large and diverse marketplace, including customers with a wide range of needs and preferences. We strive to embrace customers of all ethnic backgrounds, ages, races, faith traditions, genders and lifestyles through the products we sell and the content of our marketing." Fred Keeton of Caesars Entertainment ? which is listed as a platinum member of the International Gay and Lesbian Travel Association Foundation ? put it simply: "The LGBT community is an incredibly important market segment for our properties."

Public corporate support for LGBT equality brings with it both business risk and opportunity. But the last five years have seen a significant increase in the number of companies deciding to embrace the reward rather than the risk of voicing support for LGBT rights. The rationale is clear ? supporting marriage equality makes business sense, and according to many companies, it's also the right thing to do.

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SAN DIEGO (AP) ? The San Diego County Water Authority announced a tentative agreement Thursday to buy the entire output of what will be the Western hemisphere's largest seawater desalination plant, clearing a major hurdle for construction to begin.

The plant in Carlsbad will produce 50 million gallons a day, enough to supply about 7 percent of the San Diego region in 2020.

The agreement is subject to approval by the water authority board. Upon the board's approval, the developer ? Poseidon Resources LLC ? would sell bonds to finance 82 percent of the project, which is estimated to cost about $900 million to build.

The water authority expects the plant in the north San Diego suburb and a 10-mile pipeline to be completed in 2016.

Under the pact, San Diego would pay Poseidon $2,042 to $2,290 for an acre-foot of water, more than twice what it pays to buy water from outside the region. For supporters, the premium is well worth the price to make the region less dependent on imported water from the Los Angeles-based Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, which supplied almost all its water in the early 1990s and still provides nearly half.

"The story of San Diego has always been about the quest for reliable water," said Dennis Cushman, the San Diego agency's assistant general manager. "The history is drought and water supply shortage and being subject to decisions made by a board of directors in downtown Los Angeles ... This is about water reliability."

The water authority, a wholesaler to 24 cities and agencies including the city of San Diego, says the average household water bill will increase about $5 to $7 a month when deliveries begin. It estimates the cost is comparable to other new, local sources of drinking water, like treated toilet water or briny groundwater.

The 30-year purchase agreement calls for the San Diego agency to purchase between 48,000 and 56,000 acre-feet of water a year from the plant, or enough to supply about 100,000 homes.

Poseidon, based in Stamford, Conn., was plagued with cost overruns and delays at its desalination plant in Tampa, Fla., which produces up to 25 million gallons a day.

Ken Weinberg, the San Diego agency's water resources director, said Poseidon underestimated costs on the Tampa plant and had problems with its contractor that he is confident will not be repeated.

"In the front of our minds was to Tampa-proof this project," Weinberg said recently.

Poseidon spokesman Scott Maloni said the company learned from the Tampa project and that the San Diego agency is fully protected if the plant fails to perform as promised.

"This is definitely an important milestone, one that we've been looking forward to for a long time," Maloni said.

Tom Pankrantz, editor of Water Desalination Report, said the Carlsbad plant will easily become the hemisphere's largest seawater desalination plant, surpassing one in Trinidad and Tobago that produces up to 40 million gallons a day.

Desalination has helped quench demand in Australia, Saudi Arabia and other countries lacking fresh water, but it has struggled to catch on in the United States.

The plants can blight coastal landscapes, require massive amounts of electricity and dump millions of gallons of brine back into the ocean that can, if not properly disposed, be harmful to fish.

"The (Carlsbad) project will be somewhat of a bellwether or indicator of how desalination progresses in the U.S.," said Pankrantz. "Some say it will be the last one. Others say the dam will burst and the floodgates are open."

Poseidon proposed the project more than a decade ago and has been negotiating with potential buyers since shortly after the California Coastal Commission approved it 2009, clearing the last major regulatory hurdle. Last year, Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners LLC agreed to pay up to $150 million for an 18 percent stake in the project.

Poseidon has also proposed a desalination plant of the same size in Huntington Beach, near Los Angeles.

San Diego began to consider desalination in the early 1990s, when a drought led it to conclude that it needed a more diverse, reliable water supply. In 2003, it brokered a deal to buy Colorado River water from California's Imperial Valley in the nation's largest farm-to-city water transfer.

The agency is also considering desalination plants at Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base and Playas de Rosarito, Mexico, just south of the U.S. border.

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A dragster powered by biofuel brewed from cheese-making waste has set a blistering land-speed record for a one liter, two cylinder engine of 64.4 miles per hour.?

?That, in that class, is fast,? Lance Seefeldt, a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at Utah State University, told NBC News on Tuesday.

Since no record existed for that size engine prior to Seefeldt's cruise down the Bonneville Salt Flats earlier this month, the the professor and his colleague first?set the ?record with petroleum-derived diesel.

?Then we backed it up with the biodiesel we made from the waste cheese process,? Seefeldt said.?

The waste is sugars that a yeast strain converts into oils that are then developed into biodiesel with a patent-pending procedure, he explained.

The team is also making biofuels with bacteria as well as microalgae, which convert carbon dioxide into fuel with energy from the sun.?

They?ve tested all three in the lab and found them to ?match commercial biodiesel in every way and, in some ways, they are even superior to petroleum diesel,? Seefeldt said.

For example, they burn cleaner and thus produce fewer air pollutants such as nitrogen oxides, he said.

While the process to create the fuels is currently at the lab, proof-of-concept stage, the team can produce the yeast-derived version in gallon quantities.

That?s enough, they reckoned, to test the fuel in a small engine, so they built the Aggie-A-Salt dragster and raced at the Utah Salt Flats Racing Association?s 2012 World of Speed event.?

Check out the video below for raw footage from the speed test.

Now that the record is set, the team is back in the lab scaling up the bacteria and microalgae processes to produce enough fuel to race with them next summer.

?We want to run them head-to-head against each other at our top speeds, which we?re confident will be much faster next year,? Seefeldt said.

If all continues to go well, he added, the raw materials to produce these fuels at commercial scales is readily abundant.

The cheese factory where the team sources their waste material, for example, produces enough in a day for 66,000 gallons of fuel.

?You could multiply that across the country and different waste streams and, so it is infinitely scalable,? Seefeldt said.?

If the?technology is also able to compete in price with fossil fuels, then our future really could be cheesy.

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.

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NBC NEWS - African American youth culture is steeped in alcohol. References to booze have long been rife in rap music, and Jay Z, Sean ?P. Diddy? Combs and Ludacris are among the hip-hop luminaries who have promoted alcohol.

A new study?puts some fresh data behind long-standing concerns about alcohol marketing to black kids. Young African Americans ages 12 to 20 see far more alcohol ads on television and in magazines than youths in general, according to the report published Thursday by the Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Researchers said two key factors are at play: Many alcohol ads specifically target African Americans and African American youth consume more media than youth overall. For example, African American youths watched 53 percent more television than youths in general in 2010, according to Nielsen data cited in the study.

Frank Coleman, senior vice president of the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States, a leading trade group, said he hadn?t seen the study and couldn?t comment on it. But he said the industry does not target youth. ?The beer, wine and spirits industry (is) totally opposed to underage drinking and spends millions of dollars a year fighting it,? Coleman said.

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ADTRAN receives TMC?s 2011 Communication Solutions Product of the Year Award for its innovative, groundbreaking ONE solution

HUNTSVILLE, Ala.?(BUSINESS WIRE)?Sep. 25, 2012? ADTRAN?, Inc., (NASDAQ:ADTN, news, filings), a leading provider of next-generation networking solutions, today announced that TMC, a global, integrated media company, has named ADTRAN?s Optical Networking Edge (ONE) solution a recipient of the 2011 Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award. The 2011 Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award winners are published on the INTERNET TELEPHONY and Customer Interaction Solutions Websites. Recognized for its vision and leadership, ADTRAN?s ONE provides service providers with a flexible and efficient network architecture that easily scales to support bandwidth-intensive applications and services for residential and business subscribers. As a result, service providers are able to improve their market responsiveness to the ever-changing service and network requirements caused by growth and changes in traffic patterns within the network.

?ONE has the ability to tackle the critical need for an efficient solution that can successfully address multiple broadband markets while continuing to deliver superior customer experience,? saidMano Nachum, Packet Optical Networking Product Line Manager for ADTRAN?s Carrier Networks Division. ?ADTRAN has a continued commitment to providing solutions that simplify operations, accelerate time-to-revenue and reduce costs. ONE is allowing service providers to unleash next-generation service capabilities through a solution with unprecedented scalability to address new subscriber markets and maintain critical quality-of-service for a better bottom line.?

ONE is the only solution on the market that combines and accommodates Packet Optical Transport System (P-OTS) functions with advanced access and aggregation capabilities within a single device. By merging multiple optical services into a single platform, ONE helps service providers to eliminate the need for capital-intensive overlay builds usually required to support multiple service offerings. ONE?s service separation approach, for example, enables important service isolation for each mobile network operator that may share single cell sites or concurrently offer residential and business customers Ethernet as well as wholesale backhaul services.

In addition to addressing the effects of services growth on the access and aggregation points of the network, inAugust 2012ADTRANannounced an expansion to the solution?s agile photonic capabilities. The new transport capabilities reduce operational complexity deeper into the network extending the ONE solution benefits from the access and edge down to the metro and middle-mile.

?ADTRAN was chosen to receive a 2011 Product of the Year Award for creating outstanding advancements in communications,? saidRich Tehrani, CEO, TMC. ?ONE has proven benefits for its customers and provides ROI for the companies that use it. Congratulations to the entire team atADTRAN. I look forward to more innovative solutions from them in the coming year.?

The 2011 Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award winners are published on the INTERNET TELEPHONY and Customer Interaction Solutions Websites.

About TMC

TMC is celebrating its 40^th anniversary as a global, integrated media company that helps clients build communities in print, in person, and online.TMC publishes the Customer Interaction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY, Next Gen Mobility, and Cloud Computing magazines. TMC is the producer of ITEXPO, the world?s leading B2B communications event. TMCnet.com, which is read by two million unique visitors each month, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. In addition, TMC runs multiple industry events: Cloud Communications Expo; Cloud4SMB Expo; CVx (ChannelVision Expo); DevCon5; HTML5 Summit; LatinComm Conference & Expo; M2M Evolution Conference & Expo; Mobility Tech Conference & Expo; MSPAlliance MSPWorld; StartupCamp; Video World Conference & Expo and more.

For more information about TMC, visit www.tmcnet.com.

About ADTRAN

ADTRAN, Inc.is a leading global provider of networking and communications equipment. ADTRAN?s products enable voice, data, video and Internet communications across a variety of network infrastructures. ADTRANsolutions are currently in use by service providers, private enterprises, government organizations, and millions of individual users worldwide. For more information, please visit www.adtran.com.

For more information, contact the company at +1 866 633 3358,?prompt 3, or via email at info@adtran.com. On the Web, visit www.adtran.com.

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