The Role of a Designer? Encourage More People to Become Designers (Fast Company Magazine)
It's fun being a designer. We designers use our hands, heads, and hearts. We get to invent things and then make them into real things--things that we want. We use our heads for strategy, tactics, science, and thinking ahead. We actually make things with our hands: drawings, models, and samples. And we use our own emotions to connect with the hearts so that people will want what we created. The ...

US seeks progress in high level trade talks with China (AFP via Yahoo! Canada News)
WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President Barack Obama's administration wants progress in its first ministerial trade talks with China on issues such as copyright piracy and clean energy, officials said Wednesday.

Ultra Electronics DNE Technologies Selects Spirent Federal For Multiplay Testing (TestandMeasurement.com)
Spirent Federal Systems, the leading provider of network, device and services testing solutions, announced today that Ultra Electronics DNE Technologies, a provider of tactical voice and data networking solutions for military communications, has selected Spirent TestCenter to validate its latest offering, the PacketAssure iQ Series Service Delivery Managers

Holstrom, Makowski And Grosenick Earn Weekly Honors (OurSports Central)
Chicago, IL - The United States Hockey League today announced the weekly award winners for the second week of the 2009-10 USHL regular season.