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Defense Secretary and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs To Brief

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Defense Secretary and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs To Brief

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Face of Defense: Squadron's Lone Female Gunner Aims High

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Face of Defense: Squadron's Lone Female Gunner Aims High

By Air Force Senior Airman Daniel Hughes
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NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nev., June 26, 2013 - Fresh out of training, Air Force Airman 1st Class Natasha Libby is the only female aerial gunner assigned to the 66th Rescue Squadron here.

Air Force Airman 1st Class Natasha Libby, 66th Rescue Squadron aerial gunner, stands next to an HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopter at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., June 20, 2013. Libby is the only female among more than 30 gunners assigned to the squadron. U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Daniel Hughes
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Libby, the younger of two children, bore great responsibility growing up and working on her family's farm in Yakima, Wash.

After graduating from East Valley High School in 2010, Libby said, she realized she couldn't afford college. She found a job at a sandwich shop, where she worked for 11 months. During that time, an Army recruiter contacted her about joining.

Libby said she developed a desire to leave her hometown and become something more. "I realized I wasn't going anywhere, ... so I made the choice to pursue a career in the Air Force," she added. She went to an Air Force recruiter, hoping to start a career that would be interesting and fulfill her childhood dream of flying.

Initially, Libby was designated to be an aircraft environmental systems apprentice. But two months before shipping out for basic training, her recruiter asked if she would like to be an aerial gunner.

"I was stoked," she said. "I thought that was the coolest job ever. I might have been excited, but my family had mixed emotions. My father was very proud, and my mother was scared."

While many see moving away from home for the first time as an obstacle, Libby saw it as a new beginning, providing her the opportunity to make the change in her life that she wanted. During training, she learned how to handle a weapon while flying, how to use different radios and how to survive during a crash or mishap.

"I was introduced to Libby in Aerial Gunner School at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas," said Air Force Airman 1st Class Kevin Lerner, a fellow 66th Rescue Squadron aerial gunner. "From the day I met Libby, I could tell she was a natural leader, and someone who you could count on. She always had her nose in the books, trying to learn as much as she could about the subject we were learning at any given time."

Libby operates weapons systems on an HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopter, but that is not her only responsibility. She also briefs passengers on safety and procedures and performs in-flight maintenance of airborne weapons systems.

Libby said she is dedicated to mastering her craft so that when a real-world mission comes, she will excel at the highest level. Being a woman never has added pressure, she added, but instead has given her motivation to work harder.

"Something I learned during training is I can achieve my goals as long as I use my mind," she said, "Everyone had to work hard during training, but I feel being a female, I had to work a little harder to maintain the same level or better than the males in my class."

Growing up on a cattle farm, Libby said, she grew physically and mentally tough at a young age. The work ethic and morals she learned on the farm are the same ones she applies to her job now. The Air Force's core values -- integrity first, service before self and excellence in all we do -- reinforce those morals.

"Those weren't new values to me," she said. "I was able to see what my parents taught me, what I learned in life, and what the Air Force has taught me, and I apply it in my everyday work environment. I don't take those values lightly."

Libby said it's "cool" that she's the only female aerial gunner in her squadron of more than 100 airmen, which includes 30 gunners. "But it doesn't change anything," she added. "I still come to work like everyone else."

Libby may be at the beginning of her career, but she doesn't see it that way. She already has goals and aspirations of becoming a chief master sergeant and counseling airmen to make a difference in their life.

"My whole life, I have been grateful for what I have been given. When I am ready, I want to pay it back," she said. "The goal of joining [the Air Force] was to better my life, and if I can better other peoples' lives, then that would be outstanding."

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Gizmo's Freeware: The Ultimate Desktop Customization Tool and It's Free Too

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The Ultimate Desktop Customization Tool and It's Free Too

Posted: 26 Jun 2013 12:18 AM PDT

Rainmeter is a product that has been around for a long time but continues to get enhanced. Additionally it also has a very active community. .The website describes Rainmeter as a desktop customization tool. These guys are not wrong! The program is basically a way to plaster any number of widgets and gadgets on your Windows desktop that can provide a constant feed of everything you might want to know. Your latest Twitter messages, the state of your PC's memory or hard disk, the weather where you are, your recommended word of the day, and just about anything else.

Rainmeter is not so much a desktop utility as a way of life. You'll either love the way it takes over your desktop with all the interesting new information, or you won't. Personally, I'm still undecided, but it's certainly a very impressive product. - Robert Schifreen

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The Daily Alert from Harvard Business Review

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Networking

Should I Accept that LinkedIn Invitation? by Alexandra Samuel

The "favor test" will tell you the answer.

Marketing

Why Consumers May Feel Awkward When You Give Them Gifts by Andrew O'Connell

It takes just one observer to make a gift recipient feel uncomfortable.

Innovation

What the Companies Winning at Big Data Do Differently by Satya Ramaswamy

Simply spending more is not a strategy.

Strategy

To Overcome Your Company's Limits, Look to Symbiosis by Rafe Sagarin

Symbiosis is a powerful force in business. Here are six guidelines for forming adaptable symbiotic relationships.

Business education

How Drucker Thought About Complexity by John Hagel III

In the forces driving our age of discontinuity, he saw the need for management to change.

Managing people

The Hidden Side of Meetings by Ron Ashkenas

The non-rational dynamics not covered in standard meeting manuals.

Entrepreneurship

Arab Entrepreneurs Spread the "Power of Yalla" by Habib Haddad

Tough conditions create more resilient, quick-thinking businesses.

IT management

The Escalating Cost of Software Malice by Andrew O'Connell

A graphical look at types of data breaches and their cost.

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B&N Surrenders in Tablet Wars: RIP Nook HD
After a series of disastrous quarters trying to sell its Nook HD tablets, Barnes & Noble has decided to call it quits when it comes to selling the devices. The company will sell off its remaining inventory of Nook HD and HD+ tablets through the holidays and will not another generation of tablets.

Barnes & Noble will, however, come out with a new set of dedicated e-reading devices. Like, Kobo, which invested heavily in e-readers when the rest of the industry was going tablet-crazy, B&N is planning to zig while everyone else zags - everyone but Kobo, that is.

But before we look to the future, questions about the past have yet to be answered. How did this happen? What could Barnes & Noble have done differently?

At an extremely high risk of editorializing, this is perhaps what B&N should have done: Copy Amazon's world class user and customer experiences. Supporting EPUB3, adding apps dedicated to kids and other niches - all a waste of time if the core experience is woefully inferior to the competition's.

And what should the ailing bookseller do now? This.

Barnes & Noble: Sell Nook, Go Private (DBW)
From an investor's perspective, it's the only way for the company not to tank.

Nook Weighing B&N Down (Forbes)
When you look at the numbers, it's clear that Nook is just killing B&N profits. The company doesn't look half bad without Nook.

Intro to Metadata for Books - Still Time to Sign Up!

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Bigger Trouble Brewing for B&N? (Publerati Blog)
At least one commentator thinks things will only get worse for B&N, saying that projections of bricks-and-mortar sales declines are too rosy.

BKS (Marketwatch)
B&N shares (BKS on the New York Stock Exchange) were down 17% at close yesterday. Follow along here!

When History Repeats Itself (DBW)
Some 200 years ago a 600 year tradition ended in the way people read books. Well, in the digital age it's making a big comeback. Related: Resurrecting the Multitext.

An Introduction to SQL - New Course from DBW!

Join DBW and Aerbook.com CTO Nick Ruffilo for a new course at DBW U! Beginning July 1, this course will help you analyze sales data, analyze website usage statistics, and do any other sort of data analysis. Anyone creating a website (a sales front-end, a marketing landing page, or simply a page of metadata for SEO purposes) will all benefit from knowing SQL. Sign Up Today!

Pew: 'Digital Natives' Love Print and Libraries (DBW)
Know how the kids are supposed to be 100% digital, fully hooked in and a glimpse into the exciting (or scary, depending on where you're sitting) future? Well, the kids like print and they like libraries even more than the rest of us, new data from Pew show.

Next Gen Library Platform (DBW)
Just in time for the big American Library Association conference in Chicago, 3M has released the next generation of its library platform. Expect many library-technology related announcements in the coming days.

Creating Great Digital Books (DBW)
Digital publishing continues to evolve. After several cycles of development and innovation, we've learned a lot. Now it's time to start making fantastic digital book experiences. Register for a free DBW webcast on the topic today.

HarperCollins Moves Operations Jobs to New Jersey (Pub Lunch)
A money-saving move that takes advantage of the new News Corp corporate structure.

Borders: Still in the News (AnnArbor.com)
You probably didn't see this already even though it was out Monday (apologies for not keeping it exclusively fresh here at the DBW Daily; we think it's worth it in this case). But a small milestone has been reached in the Borders saga: The final space in the former Borders flagship store has been leased. The University of Michigan School of Information will move 12 to 15 staffers in there in the fall. The school's motto? "Connecting people, information, and technology in more valuable ways." Irony!

HTML5 for Ebook Publishers

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Think Outside the Book: Transmedia Storytelling and Digital Publishing

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