Methods For Cable Laying

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When it comes to distribution of energy via cables, Electrical failures like tripping of switchgears/motors/panels in general arises due to cable failures/cable faults/cuts on cable etc. At my work place 80% of the cable is laid in under ground cable trenches/buries cable trenches. Also being a coas

Tonight! Morbid Anatomy in Conversation with Stephen Asma, Author of "On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears," Bryant Park Reading Room

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Tonight at Bryant Park Reading Room! Stephen Asma and I talk monsters, within and without, as investigated in his recent book On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears. Full details follow; Hope to see you there!!

Word for Word Université at Bryant Park
In cooperation with Oxford University Press

Presents

Stephen Asma, author of On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears

In conversation with

Joanna Ebenstein, Morbid Anatomy Blog and Library

“Real or imagined, literal or metaphorical, monsters have exerted a dread fascination on the human mind for many centuries. Using philosophical treatises, theological tracts, newspapers, films, and novels, author Stephen T. Asma unpacks traditional monster stories for the clues they offer about the inner logic of our fears and fascinations throughout the ages.” – Amazon.com review

Please join us for a fascinating discussion of the monsters in our lives and our need to classify them. Stephen Asma is the distinguished scholar and Professor of Philosophy at Columbia College Chicago. Joanna Ebenstein is the creator and writer of the Morbid Anatomy blog and the related Brooklyn-based Morbid Anatomy Library.

Place: Bryant Park Reading Room*
Date: July 21, 2010
Time: 7pm

This program is free to the public. For more details, visit http://www.bryantpark.org.

*The Bryant Park Reading Room is located on the 42nd Street side of Bryant Park, between 5th Avenue and Sixth Avenue. Look for the big burgundy/white umbrellas.

Directions to Bryant Park: Subways B, D, F, V to 6th Ave. @ 42nd St. 7 line to 5th Ave.@ 42nd St.; Bus M1, M2, M3, M4, Q32, to 5th Ave.@ 42nd St.; M5, M6, M7 to 6th Ave.@ 42nd St.

More information about the event and the venue can be found here. You can find more about Stephen Asma's books here and here and more about he and his work here.

Image: As used in Asma's book, and as seen in the Anatomical Theatre exhibition: Museum of Anatomical Waxes “Luigi Cattezneo” (Museo Delle Cere Anatomiche “Luigi Cattaneo”): Bologna, Italy "Iniope–conjoined twins" Wax anatomical model; Cesare Bettini, Early 19th Century

Pen Drive Data Corrupt

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My 16GB Kingsten pen drive contents 4GB of data. But due to mis handling by other person with other PC, the major data suddenly disappeared.

The data is not deleted. But is not visible.

How can I recover my data? Please Help.

Losing Our Way to the "Final Frontier"

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Well its been 41 years since the Apollo 11 landed on the Moon. These days we can only just get into near earth orbit with any sort of regularity. So I'm going to pose the question.

Why (or How) did we lose our way to the "Final Frontier"?

As a child of the 60's filled with the promise

Who’s the Greatest? It’s a Poll!

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Who do you think is the greatest astronaut of all time?  The good folks at Sky at Night Magazine have launched a poll to find out.  The poll is in the August issue which by the way is on sale now.

Graham Southorn, Editor of the magazine made the comment: “We are setting out to honour those brave explorers who have journeyed beyond Earth, with a poll to find the greatest astronaut. We had to make some tough choices, but in the end we’ve narrowed the selection down to 15 people. Now we need your help to select the greatest of all time.”

Notably absent from the “short list” is John Glenn which kind of surprised me, not that I’d necessarily vote for him, but I’m not sure I’d have excluded him especially after looking at the list.

Still, it’s quite a group:

1) Anousheh Ansari
2) Buzz Aldrin
3) Neil Armstrong
4) Frank Borman
5) Michael Foale
6) Yuri Gagarin
7) Sergei Krikalev
8) Jim Lovell
9) Alexei Leonov
10) Bruce McCandless
11) Valeri Polyakov
12) Story Musgrave
13) Harrison Schmidt
14) Alan Shepard
15) John Young

Go on over to Sky at Night Magazine to read about the choices and cast your vote!!

Beware of weasly Democrats pretending to be like Republicans in this down-Dem year

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by Dave Nalle

It always fascinates me how politicians who are running for office find ways to warp and spin their records to appeal to every audience regardless of what their past positions and actions really were. Ambiguous votes on peculiar bills, supporting legislation they know will get voted down just to get it on their resume, authoring hopeless bills which die in committee to pander to a single-issue constituency, trading endorsements with other candidates which are full of qualifiers which can then be quoted out of context — all of these are fair game when it’s time to hoodwink the voters.

Here in the Austin area, Democrat Mark Strama (Texas House District 50) (see permanently sneering image to right) has been particularly adept at trading favors and distorting his record to try to strengthen his position in a district which is fairly evenly split between Democrat and Republican voters. To win and hold his seat he has had to make deals with Republicans and do everything he can to win Republican votes, but since he doesn’t actually vote much like a Republican that means misrepresenting the substance of his record on key issues. He’s clearly feeling the pressure from insurgent Republican Patrick McGuiness and the resulting mendacity is enlightening.

To win over Republican voters, Strama has made use of supportive quotes from Republican Representative Jim Keffer (Tecas House District 60) to look like a model of bipartisanship. In 2006 Keffer said that Strama “worked with Republicans to cut property taxes and keep our public schools open.” Yet further investigation demonstrates that Strama really didn’t do either of these things.

The truth is that Strama did not work on or support any major education initiatives and actually voted against property tax reductions twice in 2006. I can’t imagine how voting against property tax reductions can possibly be defined as working for them, except maybe by a definition broad enough to classify opposing legislation as an important collaborative role.

What Strama actually did do in 2006 was to support Keffer’s anti-business, job destroying and tax increasing franchise tax bill, one of the most negative pieces of legislation to come out of the Texas legislature this decade. This is a classic example of a corrupt bargain. Keffer needed votes from Strama and other Democrats to pass his tax increase, and as payback he provided Strama with a supportive quote to use in his next campaign to hoodwink fiscally conservative Republicans into voting for a tax and spend leftist.

So not only did Strama not cut property taxes as claimed (though the legislature did it without his support), he helped create a whole new strongly anti-busienss tax structure with the collaboration of big government Republicans. Yes, this was certainly bipartisan, but is being bipartisan a good thing when it sells out the best interests of the voters? Bad legislation doesn’t become good just because unprincipled legislators from both sides of the aisle support it.

Despite Strama’s attempts to draw Republican votes by presenting himself as a tax cutter, what we learn from the facts behind his claims is that he opposed tax cuts and supported tax increases, and what’s more that there are some Republicans like Jim Keffer who maybe ought to be looked at with a skeptical eye. Keffer not only authored the franchise tax, but also opposed the indian gaming bill which would have brought in substantial additional revenue for the state without imposing new taxes on the public. Someone with more authentic Republican principles ought to think about running against Keffer in the GOP primary in 2012.

For voters in Texas House District 50 the maxim “fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me” ought to apply. Strama may have fooled them through his tit-for-tat with Keffer and by misrepresenting his record in the past, but in this election Republicans and moderate but fiscally sensible Democrats ought to know better and vote for Republican challenger Patrick McGuinness instead.

Editor's Note - Dave Nalle is National Chairman for the Republican Liberty Caucus (RLC). He is also Communications Director for the Travis County (Austin) Republican Party.

South Carolina’s favorite son Alvin Greene: Wrong Party affiliation?

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Winning the Country back from the "Terrorists and Communists" in charge

From Eric Dondero:

Alvin Greene, US Army Veteran and now Democrat nominee for US Senate in South Carolina, challenging incumbent Republican Sen. Jim DeMint is speaking a bit of a conservative tone, some might even say radical right. He gave his first major speech over the weekend to about 300 gathered supporters, mostly with the NAACP in a Manning high school gym.

According to the Political Wire, Greene made the following comment in his speech:

"Let's get South Carolina back to work from Alvin, South Carolina, to Greenville, South Carolina. Let's reclaim our country from the terrorists and the communists."

Interestingly, the local press described Greene as being surrounded by full-uniformed retired Master Seargants during the speech.

Quico Canseco gains after Ciro Rodriguez outburt on constituent

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From Eric Dondero:

Democrat Congressman Ciro Rodriguez of San Antonio has some anger management issues. Last week at a meeting with constituents at a local Mexican restaurant, Rodriguez lashed out at a lady who asked him a question. Being challenged by an attendee on the accuracy of his CBO numbers, he banged his stack full of papers on a table in front of her, and said:

"Let me finish, otherwise... if you're not willing to dialogue then... Ma'am don't accuse me of not saying the truth... It's not a (unintelligible) ego... If you're not going to dialogue... I'm not going to take this any more."

See the video at YouTube.

Rodriguez was forced to apologize. According to MySanAntonio.com he issued an apology:

"for losing my temper"

Rodriguez's outburst has now given under-dog Republican Quico Canseco an unexpected boost in his campaign.

"Quico Canseco had already outraised Rodriguez on the finances this quarter, and was running neck and neck with him in the polls," said Republican Party of Texas spokesman Bryan Preston. "But that video of Rodriguez losing it when a voter just asks him to tell the truth - that's so explosive that it may change the whole campaign. And though Rodriguez has tried to somehow blame it on Canseco, the fact is it's entirely his own fault for voting for Obamacare and believing anything that the Obama administration told him about that bill. Ciro is mad because he know's he's been had - by his own party."

Canseco also responded to the outburst saying Rodriguez:

“has a history of cursing and yelling at people who disagree with him.”

Canseco has gained additional strength on his tough on border control stance.

From Hispanic Trending:

We've haven't secured the border," said Francisco "Quico" Canseco, who is running for the Texas district Rep. Ciro Rodriguez, a Democrat, has held, on and off, since 1997. "Arizona acted because of a failure on the part of the federal government."

cansecoforcongress.com

Obama now more unpopular in Arizona than any other State

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AZ about to go fully GOP?

From Eric Dondero:

Stunning new poll numbers just released from an Arizona polling firm. Reported on by the Arizona Daily Star, July 18:

PHOENIX - Most Arizonans no longer think Barack Obama is doing a decent job as president.

A new Behavior Research Poll released Sunday shows that nearly four out of every 10 Arizonans now rate Obama's performance as poor or very poor. That's up 5 points from the same survey taken in January.

What's different is that the number of those who think he's doing an excellent or good job has plummeted.

Three months after taking office, fully 51 percent of Arizonans gave Obama positive ratings, even though the state went for hometown favorite John McCain in the 2008 election.

A 28% approval rating beats even hardline Republican Red States like Idaho, Utah and Alabama.

In the crosstabs other stunning info: Only 52% of all registered Democrats now support Obama. His support among Independents is down to 22%. Only 8% of self-described Republicans still give him a positive job approval.

Note - Arizona has three Democrat Congressmen. The three of them are in tight races for reelection. With two GOP Senators, a Republican Governor, and Republican control of both legislative bodies, the State could go all GOP in November.