Liberal artists join with Muslim Terrorists in support of Gaza
Book Excerpt: The Art of Affirmation
Robert Furey on affirmation as an act of kindness.
Chris Christie quotes rock group The Eagles in criticizing Teachers Unions
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"This is not about teachers... my argument is not with the teachers of New Jersey. My argument is with the Union... who collects $730 a year in mandatory dues. And if you don't want to join the Union, here's your option. You can be out. You pay 85% of that $730 to be out of the Union.
It's like the Hotel California, you know. You can check in any time you like, but you can never leave."
(laughter)
See the full video at YouTube.
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I guess you would need to establish BTU requirement through heat loss calculation.
Out of (16) units, I would guess that no more than (8) units would
Rex Bell Wins the 2010 Thomas Paine Award at the LP National Convention
Libertarian Party of Indiana leader, candidate, and frequent LPIN.org blogger Rex Bell Rex Bell has won the National Libertarian Party’s Thomas Paine Award for his literary efforts in communicating libertarian ideas.
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WHO Swine Flu Experts 'Linked' with Drug Companies
From BBC News:
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Awesome Space Shuttle Time Lapse
From Neatorama:
This might very well be the coolest time-lapse video I've ever seen. Move over Koyaanisqatsi - you've got company from NASA!
Watch the video
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It cannot be bargained with. It cannot be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear.
Taken at the Kelvingrove Museum, Glasgow
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From Retro Thing:
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DNA Logic Gates Could Bring Injectable Biocomputer
From Gizmodo:
DNA-based logic gates that could carry out calculations inside the body have been constructed for the first time. The work brings the prospect of injectable biocomputers programmed to target diseases as they arise
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£2Bn Offshore Windfarm Goes Ahead
From BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition:
Construction work will begin next year on one of the largest offshore windfarms in the world, an energy firm has announced. The £2bn Gwynt y Mor windfarm will have 160 wind turbines around 10 miles off the north Wales coast nea
why neutral earthing is required for DG.
1.why neutral earthing is required for DG. Explain please.
2.For DG synchronized Panel neutral is coming from DG terminal box or take from earth pit. explain please.
Rogue Asteroid, Not Comet, Smacked Into Jupiter
From SPACE.com:
The culprit in a cosmic collision on Jupiter last year was most likely a rogue asteroid and not a comet as scientists originally suspected, a new study suggests. A close analysis of the July 2009 impact on Jupiter in photos from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope led
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From SPACE.com:
The age of private spaceflight is almost upon us with a veritable fleet of new commercial spaceships rolling out to the launch pad. As NASA iconic space shuttles retire for good, here's a look at new private ships soon to be reality.
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Steve Ballmer: General-Purpose PC Isn't Going Away
From Yahoo! News: Personal Technology:
Apple CEO Steve Jobs may believe that the personal computer--Mac and Windows PCs--will be diminish in importance in the near future, but Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer sees thing differently. Ballmer, during a Thursday morning interview at th
With CarMD, You Can Heal Your Wheels
From BusinessWeek.com -- Technology:
I just delivered some bad news to a colleague about a cherished family member: His wife's 1999 Honda Accord (HMC) is looking at a $1,000 repair bill. The diagnosis comes courtesy—if that's the right word—of CarMD, an easy-to-use devi
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Respect for a Battered Beauty
Tom’s post yesterday about the asteroid hitting Jupiter got me looking at the Jovian system, and since my mind was on impact craters (I’ve been looking at Mercury) I went straight to Callisto. Here’s a really cool image of Callisto taken by Cassini December 7, 2000. Callisto is the lower left, and that’s Europa by the Great Red Spot.
NASA/JPL Cassini 12/07/2000 Jupiter, Europa, Callisto
What’s with Callisto, anyway? From a distance she doesn’t look too bad, but close up the poor thing looks beat to pieces. Battered though Callisto may be, it’s easy to see the ghostly beauty of Jupiter’s 4th Galilean moon.
NASA/JPL Galileo 05/2001 Callisto
As it happens, Callisto’s surface is extremely old. Scientists estimate its surface age is about 4 billion years old. It doesn’t experience plate tectonics or vulcanism, which would work to smooth out impact craters (like it does on Earth). Its surface is a pretty faithful record of its battered past. Callisto has the oldest surface in the Solar System.
Now, before you start thinking of Callisto as a dead and boring hunk of rock (with a lot of potholes), get this; NASA has good reason to believe there is a subsurface salt-water ocean on Callisto.
It also has a thin atmosphere of carbon dioxide and molecular oxygen.
NASA/JPL Icy spires on Callisto surface
Callisto is distant enough from Jupiter that it doesn’t receive as much radiation from the planet as the other Galilean moons. If we ever establish a residential base in the Jovian system, it’ll probably be on Callisto. Can you imagine exploring the surface? That’s a 4 billion year old record of activity in our solar system.
NASA/JPL CalTech Callisto surface structures - Galileo
The enlargement of this image is spectacular, by the way.
In spite of its liquid ocean, Callisto is not considered to be a good candidate to support life. We’ll still look to Europa for that, and we’ll probably be sitting on Callisto while we’re looking.
I’d say it’s far from being a dead, boring hunk of rock.
Grid integration of Wind turbine- Matlab simulink Modelling
Hello friends
I am quite new to matlab Simulink, I have started designing of Grid integration of wind turbine
I have used 1. Wind turbine block (have input of speed,pitch angle, generator speed & torque as o/p)
2.the torque is used as input to drive the asynchron