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From Eric Dondero:
Republican State Senator and nominee for US Senate in the special election to replace Ted Kennedy, Jan. 19, appeared on Fox's Hannity show last night. Among the topics discussed Health Care reform. Sen. Brown vowed to be the 41st vote against the measure when it comes up for final passage, thus blocking the bill.
"I would actually stop it, and ask them to go back to the drawing board..."
During his comments he brought up an issue that has been highlighted here at Libertarian Republican in the last couple days - Military TriCare. Said Brown (approx. 2 minutes in):
"It's not good for Massachusetts. We already have 98% of our people insured. We're going to cut a half a trillion from Medicare, and then cut TriCare for Military people, and then have higher taxation, about a trillion-plus to pay for it..."
Lt. Col. Brown is a 30-year Veteran of the Massachusetts National Guard.
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"The Suborbital Scientist-Astronaut Training Course has been developed by The NASTAR Center and is organized by Dr. Alan Stern and Dr. Dan Durda of the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI). This partnership provides an opportunity for the scientific community to become educated about the potential to perform low-cost, repeatable, hands-on projects and experiments in space in the near future. Dr. Alan Stern said: We are very much looking forward to the NASTAR course next week [Tuesday/Wednesday, 12-13 Jan], which will be our first dedicated spaceflight familiarization activity. Were already preparing research experiments for suborbital spaceflight and look forward to soon seeing these experiments scheduled for flight."
Keith's note: Miles O'Brien and I will be covering this training session on Tues and Weds at NASTAR. We hope to bring you live streaming video of suborbital scientists as they ride inside the centrifuge and engage in other training activities. In addition, we'll be twittering and blogging - as will the course participants. Information on training coverage will be posted on NASA Watch and also at OnOrbit.com/suborbital
- NASA Solicitation: Commercial Reusable Suborbital Research Program - CRuSR - Request for Information, earlier post
- List of Speakers Announced for the Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference, earlier post
- NASTAR Suborbital Scientist Training Program Student Patch Contest, earlier post
The Boston Herald is reporting that no matter what the outcome of the January 19 special election to fill the Senate seat of the deceased Ted Kennedy, Democrats will still pass the Health Care legislation.
From the Herald:
It looks like the fix is in on national health-care reform - and it all may unfold on Beacon Hill.
At a business forum in Boston today, interim Sen. Paul Kirk (photo behind Kennedy) predicted that Congress would pass a health-care reform bill this month.
“We want to get this resolved before President Obama’s State of the Union address in early to mid-February,” Kirk told reporters at a Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce breakfast.
The longtime aide and confidant of the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, who was handpicked by Gov. Deval Patrick after a controversial legal change to hold Kennedy’s seat, vowed to vote for the bill even if Republican state Sen. Scott Brown, who opposes the health-care reform legislation, prevails in a Jan. 19 special election.
This smacks against precedent in the Bay State. In 2007, Rep. Nick Tsongas was sworn in two days after she had been elected in a special election for the seat of Rep. Martin Meehan. She was hurriedly sworn in to beat the threat of a Presidential veto by George Bush, ironically over expansion of the Children's State Health Insurance plan.
The delay is being pushed by both the Democrat-controlled Secretary of State's office, and from the office of Acting Senator Paul Kirk. Continuing:
Today, a spokesman for Secretary of the Commonwealth William Galvin... said certification of the Jan. 19 election by the Governor’s Council would take a while.
Another source told the Herald that Galvin’s office has said the election won’t be certified until Feb. 20 - well after the president’s address.
Since the U.S. Senate doesn’t meet again in formal session until Jan. 20, Bay State voters will have made their decision before a vote on health-care reform could be held. But Kirk and Galvin’s office said today a victorious Brown would be left in limbo.
The possibility of Democrat Martha Coakley being sworn in immediately if she prevails in the election, has been left open.
I won't call this a trend, but it seems a lot of products that are already on the market have some clones lurking at CES 2010.
One product that I have seen a few kinds of are eBook readers. These readers look very much like the kindle, but come from company names most hav
I'll admit it: I haven't taken my Christmas tree down yet. I was feeling guilty, too, until I realized that just means I still have a chance to strap 32 rocket engines to it.
Turns out all it takes to launch your Douglas fir 100ft. into the air is a car battery, 32 engines wired in parallel, and a wee bit of differential calculus. It's like my grandpa used to say: the holidays aren't over until you say they're over, or until something explodes. [The Awesomer via The Daily What]
All the U.P.S distribution panels are being provided with busbars of TP+2N ie., the neutral size is 200% of the phase busbar. Why?
With oil becoming more cost prohibitive everyday, all branches of the U.S. Military have been ordered to go green. Geothermal energy is the power of choice as evidenced by the China Lake, 270-megawatt geothermal power plant in California. The site, and others, will produce 600 MW annually according
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger asked for $6.9 billion in federal funds in his state-budget proposal Friday and warned that state health and welfare programs would be threatened without the emergency help.
Mr. Schwarzenegger's proposed $82.9 billion general-fund budget for the 2010-11 fiscal year would close a $19.9 billion gap over 18 months. In addition to the federal aid, he called for $8.5 billion in cuts and $4.5 billion in alternative funding to balance the budget.
"It's time to enact long-term reforms that will change the way the most populous state and the federal government work together," Mr. Schwarzenegger said. He and state legislative leaders plan to visit Washington to lobby for bailout money. White House budget officials weren't available for comment on the governor's request.
Federal bailouts of state governments are insane not just because they reward profligate state spending. These bailouts also come with strings attached - dictates on how states can run education, welfare, transportation, and so on - and thus quickly destory any remnance of federalism in the United States.
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Transportation Security worker called a "model employee" by TSA Union Official
From Eric Dondero:
His name is Ruben Hernandez. No other information has been released yet on him, except that he lives in Newark. An unofficial representative from the Union seeking to represent TSA employees commented that he's been a "model employee."
Hernandez has been identified as the TSA Agent at Newark International Airport who left his post, and allowed an immigrant Chinese man to breach security. The incident led to a 6 hour lock-down of the busy airport during the Holiday Season. Flights were delayed. Passengers were stranded.
One report found that Hernandez was "talking on his cell phone," when the breach occured. Another media source described Hernandez as "chatting" with some ladies while the Chinese man lifted up the security rope and "hotfooted it" into the secure area.
From the NY Post:
The stunning breach was missed by TSA guard Ruben Hernandez, who left his post, but was called a "model employee" by a union official.
The NY Daily News reports:
The air-headed TSA guard who left his post was identified as Ruben Hernandez. He reportedly is on administrative leave and faces possible disciplinary action.
Grad Student Chinese Immigrant to US identified as Culprit
The Post and other news sources are also reporting this morning on the Chinese man who caused the altercation:
Cops have caught the notorious kissing bandit who caused a major security scare at Newark Airport Sunday when he strolled through a checkpoint the wrong way to give his girlfriend a smooch goodbye, sources said.
Haisong Jiang, a 28-year-old Rutgers bio-medical research grad student, brought the busy airport to a standstill and sparked a weeklong manhunt, sources said.
Turns out he's a biology molecular "grad student," at Rugers University. He's been in the US for 5 years. His roomate said, he didn't "think it was such a big deal," so he purposely avoided turning himself in.
Then this priceless comment:
Hui said Jiang was giving a goodbye kiss to his girlfriend Qianqun, who was visiting him for Christmas break and was heading to LA to work as a statistician.
"We know that he's very excited to have a real woman," Hui said. "His girlfriend is very upset. I think she will be here in two days to face this with him."
Jiang is now facing a $500 fine for "defiant trespess."
Illegal Aliens working for TSA?
Curiously, the TSA has been completely silent on the immigration and/or citizenship status of TSA Employee Hernandez.
TSA has been criticized recently for hiring illegal aliens from Mexico and Central America. And the problem appears to be particularly accute in airports up in the Northeast.
From The Thinker blog:
In the latest of many shameful lapses, the federal agency in charge of securing the nation’s transportation system approved background checks for a dozen illegal immigrants working in sensitive areas of a busy U.S. airport.
The illegal aliens, from Central America and Mexico, worked in operational areas of Stewart International Airport, a 2,400-acre facility located about 60 miles north of New York City. Stewart is a major passenger airport for the state’s mid-Hudson region that also handles large quantities of cargo and serves as a military field.
The illegal aliens all had security badges approved by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), the agency created after the 2001 terrorist attacks mainly to protect airlines. The TSA’s national background check failed to detect the fake Social Security numbers and other bogus documents provided by the illegal immigrants to obtain clearance.
Unionized, TSA empoloyees would be better protected from background searches and immigrant status. Republican Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina believes it would be disastrous to allow TSA to Unionize, for precisely this reason. On a recent segment of CNN the Senator commented:
"And many other federal employees, including those who deal with national security like border patrol agents and customs officers, have the right to collectively bargain..." And later added, "We do have 12 million undocumented aliens in our country..."
Coal mining does great harm to human life — not just in the mines, but in the surrounding communities.
In what may be a death blow to the coal industry, a large group of scientists tested water and studied peer-reviewed environmental and health data in Appalachia, and gave their opinions on coal mining last week in the journal Science. (Abstract here). Science is a peer-reviewed publication of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and one of the top journals in the world. Their findings explode the myth of “clean coal” and finds that mountaintop removal is so damaging it should stop. The scientists said they were puzzled the media doesn’t report on this damage more often, despite the “debates”.
The 11-author study, “Mountaintop Mining Consequences” found in the conclusion that: Research priorities to reduce Appalachian health disparities should focus on reducing disparities in the coalfields. The human cost of the Appalachian coal mining economy outweighs its economic benefits. They also found that reclamation and reforestation of a mined site to pre-mined conditions has never happened, despite claims by coal mine owners.
Their recommendation amounts to: shut the coal mines down. Coal mining is irreparably damaging the environment and harming, sometimes killing, the people of Appalachia; men, women and children. The health risks are across the board. The environmental damage is permanent. Their conclusion doesn’t even include the burning of the coal and the storage of the coal sludge waste, which are also toxic and very dangerous to human health. A couple of excerpts of the paper follow. First, in a press release titled, Eminent Group of Scientists Call for Moratorium on Issuance of Mountaintop Mining Permits:
“Based on a comprehensive analysis of the latest scientific findings and new data, a group of the nation’s leading environmental scientists are calling on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S Army Corps of Engineers to stay all new mountaintop mining permits. In the January 8 edition of the journal Science, they argue that peer-reviewed research unequivocally documents irreversible environmental impacts from this form of mining which also exposes local residents to a higher risk of serious health problems.
The authors — hydrologists, ecologists and engineers — are internationally recognized scientists, including several members of the National Academy of Sciences. They argue that the U.S. should take a global leadership role on the issue, as surface mining in many developing countries is expected to grow extensively in the next decade.
“The scientific evidence of the severe environmental and human impacts from mountaintop mining is strong and irrefutable,” says lead author Dr. Margaret Palmer of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science and Department of Entomology, University of Maryland, College Park. “Its impacts are pervasive and long lasting and there is no evidence that any mitigation practices successfully reverse the damage it causes.”
One thing is clear (and was before this study) — coal is dirty and harmful to human health. We need to stop mining it and burning it because it’s killing [...]
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Google Nexus One Carries $174.15 Materials Cost, iSuppli Teardown Reveals El Segundo, Calif., January 8, 2010-With its new Nexus One, Google Inc. has taken many of the latest smart-phone innovations and combined them in a single product that manages to be both cutting edge and cost competitive, according to a teardown conducted by iSuppli Corp.
The Nexus One, sold with the Google brand name but manufactured by HTC Corp., carries a Bill Of Materials (BOM) of $174.15, based on a preliminary estimate from iSuppli's Teardown Analysis Team. This total comprises only hardware and component costs for the Nexus One itself and does not take into consideration other expenses such as manufacturing, software, box contents, accessories and royalties.
Google Nexus One Carries $174.15 Materials Cost, iSuppli Teardown Reveals
El Segundo, Calif., January 8, 2010-With its new Nexus One, Google Inc. has taken many of the latest smart-phone innovations and combined them in a single product that manages to be both cutting edge and cost competitive, according to a teardown conducted by iSuppli Corp.
The Nexus One, sold with the Google brand name but manufactured by HTC Corp., carries a Bill Of Materials (BOM) of $174.15, based on a preliminary estimate from iSuppli's Teardown Analysis Team. This total comprises only hardware and component costs for the Nexus One itself and does not take into consideration other expenses such as manufacturing, software, box contents, accessories and royalties.
Google is selling unlocked versions of the Nexus One at an unsubsidized price of $529, or at $179 with a two-year service contract from T-Mobile.
"With the Nexus One, Google has taken the most advanced features seen in recent smart phone designs and wrapped them up into a single sleek design," said Kevin Keller, senior analyst, competitive analysis, for iSuppli. "Items like the durable unibody construction, the blazingly fast Snapdragon baseband processor and the bright and sharp Active-Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode (AM-OLED) display all have been seen in previous phones, but never before combined into a single design. This gives the Nexus One the most advanced features of any smart phone ever dissected by iSuppli's Teardown Analysis Service-a remarkable feat given the product's BOM is similar to comparable products introduced during the past year."
The attached table presents the preliminary results of iSuppli's teardown analysis of the Nexus One. iSuppli will conduct a finalized and more detailed analysis later this month.
Return of the Snapdragon
At the heart of the Nexus One is Qualcomm Inc.'s Snapdragon baseband processor that sports a blistering 1GHz clock speed.
"The Snapdragon was first noted in a previous smart phone torn down by iSuppli-the Toshiba Corp. TGO1-which is based on Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Mobile operating system," Keller said. "However, the Android 2.1 operating system used in the Nexus One better capitalizes on the Snapdragon's fast performance, making the user interface and applications run very quickly.
This processing muscle also gives the Nexus One some advanced capabilities, most notably high-definition 720p video playback."
iSuppli estimates the cost of the Snapdragon at $30.50, making it the most expensive single component in the Nexus One. With the inclusion of the Snapdragon and the associated power-management and Radio Frequency (RF) transceiver chips, Qualcomm commands 20.4 percent of the Nexus One's BOM, giving it the biggest dollar share of any component supplier in the design.
AM-OLED display
One of the Nexus One's signature features is its 3.7-inch AM-OLED display, which is superior to the conventional LCDs used in most smart phone designs in a variety of ways. Compared to LCDs, AM-OLEDs deliver a larger color gamut, a faster response time, a thinner form factor and reduced power consumption.
Prior to the Nexus One, AM-OLED technology appeared in another smart phone, Samsung's I7500, which features a 3.2-inch display. However, the Nexus One uses a larger display, marking the first use of a 3.7-inch OLED that iSuppli's Teardown Analysis Service has seen.
"The 3.7-inch AM-OLED display on the Nexus One delivers a stunning picture," Keller said.
With an estimated cost of $23.70, the AM-OLED display is supplied by Samsung Mobile Display Co Ltd.
Heavenly unibody
The Nexus One also sports a unibody design, which means that the smart phone's enclosure comprises a single part. Such a design approach provides greater structural rigidity, providing more protection to the internal electronics in case the phone is dropped. On the other hand, a unibody tends to drive up manufacturing costs.
Besides Apple Inc.'s iPhone, this marks the first unibody smart-phone design that iSuppli's teardown analysis team has noted.
With the Nexus One, HTC has taken a major cue from Apple in the enclosure design, making it the most "Apple-like" product yet seen from any in the competition, and others are likely to follow suit.
Noises off
The Nexus One also features a dual microphone design used for cancellation of background noise. This feature also was noted in Motorola's Droid, another Android-based smart phone. To implement the noise cancellation function, the Nexus One employs a specialized audio voice processor chip from Audience Semiconductor, the first time iSuppli's Teardown Analysis service has observed a part from this manufacturer in any electronic product.
Lost memories
The Nexus One includes a large quantity of DRAM, employing 4Gbit (512MByte) of Samsung Semiconductor's Double Data Rate (DDR) DRAM. This compares to 1Gbit or 2Gbit for comparable smart phones. The large quantity of DRAM is required to store executable code to support the fast performance of the Snapdragon processor, and allows for better application performance.
While the Nexus One features 4Gbit of internal NAND flash memory, the same amount as the Droid and the Toshiba TG01, it is bundled with a comparatively small MicroSD card of 4Gbyte. NAND flash is used for storage of user content and media on the smart phone. The Droid and TG01 are supplied with 16Gbyte and 8Gbyte, respectively. This allows Google to keep its overall BOM costs down, yet still allows the user to upgrade as needed. And while the 4Gbyte of internal flash pales against the iPhone's whopping 16Gbyte, it has the advantage of expandability afforded by the MicroSD card slot where the iPhone has no external storage facility.
Samsung Semiconductor is the supplier of all the memory in the Nexus One, giving it $20.40, or 11.7 percent, of the product's total BOM.
Synaptics gets in touch
Other notable design winners in the Nexus One include Synaptics Inc., which supplies the phone's capacitive touch-screen assembly. iSuppli estimates the cost of the assembly at $17.50, or 10 percent of the total BOM. While the module and the Android operating system support multitouch input, the capability is deactivated on the Nexus One.
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Through the photonic assault, I saw a patch of green in a booth. I walked up and touched it. The grass, it was real, and cool and fresh for the moment. I could not have smiled more broadly. Happy Moments...
...at CES are rare for attendees, in my experience. It's hard work and a monumental commercial achievement at the expense of sanity, holiday vacations and sleep. But these moments of joy do exist.
Dell showed a 5 inch Android tablet. It's too small to be more useful than a smartphone, and can't be pocketed as easily, but for some reason, I found it sexy. And that one of the most mainstream makers of PCs made something so cool, well, I was impressed. I'm not sure I would buy one, but it made me happy.
I miss my dogs. They're being watched in Japan for the month by Lisa's parents, and I'm going back to pick them up in a week. They're black and brown, and these mascots also happen to be black and brown. I guess they reminded me of my pets without me realizing it, and I decided to give them a hug. Cozy.
I made fun of 3D HDTV a lot. Then I tried it on a really good set with fast refresh rates, by Panasonic. I loved it and to me the difference between 2D and 3D is as profound as the difference between black and white and color TV. I got excited at the thought of playing games and watching movies with lots of explosions and lush scenery (Planet Earth, HD!) with a third dimension.
Another great moment of happiness came when I felt we were hitting our stride, as a team, covering the show. No trailer, no booth, no place to set up and write in peace. But since we were all here, together, I was able to ask everyone how they were doing without typing it. It's nice to communicate without a keyboard, once in awhile.
We bought pizza for ourselves and since the lunches were cold, got some for our pals in the press room.
Seeing the Gizmodo junior team learn so much so fast has been inspiring. I got especially happy watching Don and Kyle nail their shorts and Rosa, well, Rosa found the best story of the show. And the veterans are just so good, they're always surprising me with astounding finds and speed of insightful writing.
I bumped into a lot of friends here, not only those I work at Gizmodo with. Chris Null, Sean Captain, Leander Kahney, Charlie White, Dylan Tweeney, Joe Brown, Steve Leckart, Danny Dumas, Ryan Block, Veronica Belmont and Pete Rojas, naming a few. And this is actually the first time I've worked side by side with Joel Johnson, who returned to Giz only last month.
In a few hours, this show will be largely done for us. Everyone who worked on the blog will have a nice dinner together. Then I'll go home. That will be my most happy moment.
*We noticed these people were having a good time at CES, too. If you look closely, most of them have to do with people interacting with each other, not the machinery.
