laptops or cell phones

So many of us power our electronics overnight, and this product could help consumers use only the electricity they need. Once the surge protector senses that a device is charge, it cuts off the power to it. How much energy a consumer saves depends on how he or she charges their laptops or cell phones. But iGo says it can cut as much as 85% of the power that goes to waste during the charging process.

This begs the question, in a society that claims to be going green, shouldn’t this be where we’re headed? Shouldn’t this become a part of our culture: finding ways, big and small, to cut back on the wasteful power we use?

The Power Tower is retailing at $79 for an 8-outlet surge protector and $29 for a 4-outlet surge protector. It may be a while before this catches on. But if iGo and its competitors can prove that you save more on the electric bills than the tower costs, it may take off.

Here’s another technology for charging gadgets at CES. This one comes from Powermat. The company makes mats with a current that can charge your phone or laptop. You may have seen these in Target and Best Buy catalogs during the holiday season.

Stork Craft built the recalled cribs

The commission, Health Canada and Stork Craft have received reports of a combined 110 incidents in which the drop sides detached. Fifteen children were trapped and four of them suffocated, the commission said. Another 20 children fell from cribs, which resulted in bumps, bruises and concussions, the statement said.

Stork Craft built the recalled cribs from January 1993 to October 2009. The Fisher-Price branded cribs were manufactured from October 1997 to December 2004, the commission said.

Calls to Stork Craft weren't returned Monday.

Major U.S. and Canadian retailers sold the cribs, including Wal-Mart, Kmart, Sears, JCPenney, USA Baby, Meijer and BJ's Wholesale Club, the statement said. The cribs also were sold online by Amazon .com, Babiesrus.com, Costco .com, Target.com and Walmart.com from January 1993 through October 2009.
Around the same time, Dee and Rich Cefola decided to buy Dee's father's coffee company, Fortunes Coffee Roastery. Although the company was headquartered in Pittsburgh, and some specialty coffees were roasted in the Strip District shop, the majority of the coffee was roasted in New York and only packaged here.

But in the '80s and early '90s, specialty coffee began to grow, encouraging roasters to expand production and cafes to open in new locations. In 1992, the Cefolas decided to bring the roasting operation home.

Today, they've just completed a new $1 million roasting facility in Stowe, one that will allow them to roast not only more coffee each year, but also will improve the quality of the finished product.

"The new roasting plant can bring out better nuances in flavor because it controls the roast so much better than older roasters," explained Rich Cefola. "We've always had a reputation for excellent coffee, but now we can even take the next step."

The Cefolas' new roaster is also a tribute to Pittsburgh sports teams -- the space is decked out in black and gold.

The call for Monday's demonstrations

Paris-based Reporters Without Borders said in statement Saturday that 28 journalists and bloggers are currently being held _ including two arrested last week: a blogger supporting women's rights and a reporter for a business daily.

The group said reporters have been repeatedly threatened, summoned by the intelligence services and given long prison sentences after questionable judicial proceedings.

Largely swept off the streets, the opposition relies on the Web and cell phone service to organize rallies and get its message out.

The call for Monday's demonstrations was put out on dozens of Web sites run by supporters of opposition leaders Mousavi and Mahdi Karroubi, who both ran against Ahmadinejad in the June 12 election. Most of those sites have been repeatedly blocked by the government, forcing activists to set up new ones.

Monday's demonstrations mark the anniversary of the 1953 killing of three students at an anti-U.S. protest during the rule of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, a close American ally.

Since the 1990s, that anniversary has served as an occasion for protests by those urging Iran's Islamic leadership to allow more social and political freedoms.

Signs have mounted in recent days of a potentially explosive confrontation, especially if the protesters take their demonstrations off campuses. Extra police and other security personnel were deployed around Tehran University Sunday, and the nation's police chief, Gen. Ismail Ahmadi Moghaddam, warned that security forces will crush any protests.
The joint forces also detained seven Taliban fighters during the operation over the past three days, he further said.

Meanwhile, Taliban purported spokesman Qari Yousuf Ahmadi in talks with media via from undisclosed location claimed that the outfit's fighters have blown up three tanks of foreign troops and killed over a dozen soldiers, a claim rejected by Ahmadi as groundless.

The operation, dubbed "Cobra's Anger", began Friday morning in Nawzad district with the involvement of some 1,000 U.S. Marines and 150 Afghan soldiers to disrupt Taliban supply routines and communication lines in the former Taliban stronghold.

the Nine Network.

His arrival into Melbourne yesterday by private jet from Shanghai was televised by Sky News. John Brumby, premier of Victoria state, today took his seat alongside Woods at a media conference that went live to the nation on the Nine Network.

“It’s not normal. Trust me: it’s not,” Woods said. “Thank God it’s not normal.”

Woods is being paid a $3 million appearance fee, local media reported. His presence has already helped the Masters sell out and organizers said they expect more than 100,000 spectators to attend the tournament’s four days.

Ticket Only

A capacity crowd and the probability of first-time golf watchers at Kingston Heath prompted a warning on the tournament’s Web site that spectators won’t be allowed to bring cameras and onto the course. They’ve also taken out radio advertisements telling people not to come to the venue if they don’t have a ticket. The event starts in two days.

“Never before has a golf tournament so completely captured the imagination of Australia,” Brumby told reporters. He added that the event will boost Victoria’s economy by more than A$19 million ($17.6 million).

For Woods, the quality and uniqueness of Kingston Heath, which is nestled among the eight golf courses in Melbourne’s so- called Sandbelt, is the reason for his visit.

“It’s an unbelievable golf course,” Woods said. “As I’ve always said and always alluded to, I’ve always been a huge fan of the Sandbelt golf courses, the bunkering is just phenomenal. You never get a chance to see bunkering like this in any other place in the world.”

random dialing of cell-phone numbers

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