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Motorists do not believe the government's claims that road taxes help cut carbon dioxide emissions and boost public transport investment, according to an MPs' report released today which recommends a voluntary 'pay as you drive' scheme.The report, by the Commons transport committee, urges ministers to revive the idea of giving motorists the option of being taxed per mile driven - one of the most controversial government proposals of recent years. The recommendation comes with a warning that says the motoring public has become 'mistrustful' of taxes on road users.The committee's chair, Louise Ellman, Labour MP for Liverpool Riverside, said recent increases in vehicle excise duty had been handled so badly the image of environmental taxes had been tarnished.The report says: 'The government has been inconsistent in the way that it has justified motoring taxes. Fuel duty has been presented, at different times, as a tool to reduce carbon emissions, a source of general revenue, and a means to

An essay based on the life of Olaudah Equiano and his attachment to the European culture, and his self identity as a European. Source: Michael LuchiesPublished: Jul 23, 2009

Epcot has released the itenarary for the popular International Food & Wine Festival dining experiences, including Party for the Senses, signature dining, etc. Source: Amanda M. RosePublished: Jul 23, 2009

Ruby Gettinger is a woman in season two on her show 'Ruby' that chooses to fight morbid obesity and regain her health the natural way . As a side-effect of her journey she is charming her viewers.Source: Dana Stinson-Cumby M.A.Published: Jul 23, 2009

Roger Goodell has decided on Michael Vick's punishment after meeting with the suspended quarterback Wednesday. The NFL commissioner could suspend Vick for the first four games of the 2009 season, a source told ESPN's Sal Paolantonio.

According to multiple sources, the long-anticipated meeting between NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and suspended quarterback Michael Vick occurred Wednesday afternoon at a small security firm in Allendale, N.J., where both men were seen leaving the premises separately.

Company acquiring provider of real-time data integration software for an undisclosed amount. GoldenGate tech will help customers pull timely data from different sources.

Despite his criticism of the Argos coach and quarterback, receiver wants to stay, although sources say he'd be happy to move on in the right scenario

Ubuntu's upcoming Karmic Koala edition, which will include the UCSB-developed Eucalyptus cloud-building software, will be the first Linux distribution to include a do-it-yourself cloud kit. Eucalyptus adds a number of new functions to Ubuntu, such as end-user customization, self-service provisioning, legacy application support, and automated power controls. - SAN JOSE, Calif. -- A National Science Foundation grant project developed largely by graduate students at the University of California, Santa Barbara has resulted in Eucalyptus Systems, a three-month-old startup which has produced new open-source cloud infrastructure software that is a key component...

Suppose you want to run regular statistical analyses on your Web site's traffic log data -- several hundred terabytes, updated weekly. (Don't laugh. This is not unheard of for popular Web sites.) You're already familiar with Hadoop (see InfoWorld's review), the open source distributed processing system that would be ideal for this task. But you don't have time to code Hadoop map/reduce functions? Perhaps you're not the elite programmer that everyone in the office thinks you are.