Makes a good case for taming and befriending our negative emotions and seeing them as allies rather than as enemies.
Book Excerpt: Transforming Our Painful Emotions
Evelyn Eaton Whitehead and James D. Whitehead on the need for a robust spirituality of anger.
Cathodic Protection V/s. Wrapping and coating
Please somebody tell me that when to go for Cathodic Protection and when Wrapping and coating is beneficial I want the answers with value w.r.t. to some physical parameter regards
Obama Heads To The Space Coast
Obama plans Florida space summit to defend his vision for NASA, Orlando Sentinel
"In the latest sign that his NASA vision is in peril, President Barack Obama will announce today his plans to host a space summit in Florida on April 15. The move follows weeks of criticism from Congress about his proposal to cancel NASA's Constellation moon-rocket program in favor of an approach that would push NASA engineers to develop new technologies while using commercial rocket companies for future astronaut missions."
President Obama to Host Space Conference in Florida in April, White House
"The President, along with top officials and other space leaders, will discuss the new course the Administration is charting for NASA and the future of U.S. leadership in human space flight. Specifically, the conference will focus on the goals and strategies in this new vision, the next steps, and the new technologies, new jobs, and new industries it will create. Conference topics will include the implications of the new strategy for Florida, the nation, and our ultimate activities in space."
Al Qaeda Spokesman calls for Muslims in America to Attack targets in the US
Says to Brother Muslims, Attack Americans wherever you can
A new video has been released by Al Qaeda spokesman Adam Gadahn. The American-born (California) Gadahn called on American Muslims to emulate the example of Ft. Hood shooter Major Nidal Malik Hasan. But he also said, attacks need not be limited to Military installations.
From MyWay.com:
"Brother Nidal is the ideal role-model for every repentant Muslim in the armies of the unbelievers and apostate regimes."
Later in the Video:
"You shouldn't make the mistake of thinking that military bases are the only high-value targets in America and the West. On the contrary, there are countless other strategic places, institutions and installations which, by striking, the Muslim can do major damage."
He seemed to suggest possible soft targets such as shopping malls, advising attackers to find ways to bring down "consumer confidence and stifle spending" in the economy.
UPDATE!!!
The Associated Press and MSNBC are reporting that Adam Gadahn has been captured by Pakistani troops. CNN is saying "mixed reports" on capture of Al Qaeda spokesman.
False Alarm! All media outlets now retracting the story...
DIY Pixel Qi Kits Arrive Q2, Bring Transflective Displays to Old Laptops [Pixel Qi]
Were you as impressed with the Pixel Qi display as we were? Good news: There's a DIY kit coming late this year that will allow you to swap out 10-in. laptop screens with a transforming Pixel Qi transflective combo screen.
Better news: The folks at Pixel Qi contend that switching out the old display with a shiny new one is only "slightly more difficult that changing a lightbulb." Naturally, you'll be voiding whatever semblance of a warranty you may have had on your present laptop by doing this, but for many the sunlight-friendly transflective e-ink-like/LCD combo displays Pixel Qi provides might make it worth the headache should things go awry down the road. We just hope you can uninstall the screen just as easily as it goes on however, should our concerns about this tech being "one or two generations" from true usability pan out when the kit launches later this year.
Watch for the kit in Q2. No pricing info given , but if you find it updated somewhere be sure to get your citizen journalism on and let us know. [Pixel Qi via Engadget]
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is 3O/C+1E/F protection necessary at the primary side of delta-star transformer?
Muslim Men came to San Francisco to hunt down Gay people
LR FOLLOW-UP
Shot SF victim in the face because he was Gay
New details emerging in the case of the three Muslim men who shot a Gay man outside a bar on Guerrero Street last week.
From the SF Appeal online newspaper, March 5:
spokesman Officer Samson Chan said... while officers were interviewing him [the victim of the crime] outside the bar, he spotted the same vehicle again driving by...
Police pulled the car over and found three men inside with a "rifle-style" BB gun and a video camera, which investigators later discovered had recorded the shooting, according to Chan.
The three men, Shafiq Hashemi, 21, Sayed Bassam, 21, and Mohammad Habibzada, 24, the driver, were arrested.
"The suspects did make a confession, basically stating that they came to San Francisco to target gay people," he said.
International Fatwa to Attack Gays
The Gay press from California to the East Coast has been reporting on the story, yet it has yet to break into the mainstream media outside of the Bay Area.
From Boston The Edge, "Three Arrested for Anti-Gay Attack" March 5:
The men, all 24 years old and all cousins, videotaped the attack, which was carried out at about 10:00 p.m. on Feb. 26. The victim was shot in the face... Authorities said they believed the men targeted the victim because of his sexuality.
A tenet of the Muslim religion as interpreted by some Islamic scholars is that active homosexuals should be put to death.
U.K.-based Muslim cleric Anjem Choudary, whose past sermons have included warning Muslims to "protect" their families from Christmas or face "hellfire," told the media last year that the religion prescribes death by stoning not only for sexually active gays, but also for heterosexual adulterers. Choudary indicated that being gay was not in itself sinful, saying, "If a man likes another man, it can happen, but if you go on to fulfill your desire, if it is proved, then there is a punishment to follow." However, the cleric said, "You don’t stone to death unless there are four eyewitnesses. It is a very stringent procedure." Choudhury then compared gay intimacy to bestiality, saying, "There are some people who are attracted to donkeys, but that does not mean it is right."
Tumbleweed Rover Ball Could Be Key to Exploring More of Mars [Mars]
Martian rovers with wheels are so 2009, man. And they get stuck in the sand way to easily. What we need is an army of tumbleweed beach ball robots surveying hundreds of miles of Martian surface. NASA's on the case.
The concept is mind-numbingly simple: It's a big, bouncing ball that's light enough to be pushed around Mars by nothing but the planet's wind. Wind that's known to be strong enough to create dust devils and clean Spirit's solar panels from time-to-time, so this little sucker could really get moving if conditions are just right.
That's precisely the idea—get moving; get moving fast; and get moving into wide swaths of the Martian landscape so humanity can start doing the kinds of surveys that will be necessary should we ever hope to actually set foot on Mars with a limb that's decidedly human, and not robot.
Test designs have already been deployed to Martian-like environments in Antarctica and Greenland, where they successfully traversed hundreds of miles of terrain without incident. These were inflatable designs that had the ability to deflate and remain stationary (to perform experiments), before re-inflating and continuing on.
So, exciting news for us here on Earth, and super exciting news for whatever might live on Mars—you guys could soon be on the receiving end of your very own ball pit. It'd be like Chuck E. Cheese's, but with less color and more NASA branding. And probing. Oh, the probing! [MSNBC]
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First Kiss | The Intersection
Reader Luke Vogel first suggested inviting everyone to submit photos to the Science of Kissing Gallery, so this morning I’m especially pleased to feature his contribution. Here’s Luke giving a first kiss to his beautiful niece, Jaylee.
Submit your photograph or artwork for consideration and remember to include relevant links.
Boron carbide nozzles (focusing tubes)
Dear friends,
We need Boron carbide focusing tubes for our wJ machine.
If anybody knows who produce them?
Wonders of the solar system | Bad Astronomy
Starting tonight on the BBC, a new series premiers called "Wonders of the Solar System". The host is some guy named Brian Cox. He’s a particle physicist! I don’t see the BBC hiring me to do a show on the Large Hadron Collider, so this doesn’t seem fair. And I’m a little concerned about how much Brian knows about the LHC, anyway.
Still, it looks cool. Here’s the trailer:
Seriously, this will be awesome. I can’t wait to see it!
Book Excerpt: A Little Book for Lovers
Georg Feuerstein on the nature and true meaning of love.
Going Green is Business as Usual
For those who think that turning your HVAC business into a green shop means abandoning old business practices for new ones, listen to my dad. A 74 year old upstate NY contractor who works a 60 hour work week, produces an ear-to-ear grin every time he receives an RFQ for a LEED-financed commercial co
Google Gigawatts
It's hard to deny the positive value Google provides with its Internet search engine. Now, they're fast creating footholds in many mega-markets (online books, social networks, fiber-optic broadband networks). Google's latest giga-move was their request to be a utility; they asked for, and received,
Quality Comes and Goes
Product quality, or the lack thereof, has dominated the news lately, with Toyota as exhibit one. But quality seems to go in cycles — companies that were once derided for poor quality later became synonymous with the best, only to fall again. And it's not just true in the auto industry. What ca
Taking Responsibility?
The past few months haven't been kind to Toyota. More than 8 million cars recalled world-wide, including popular Corolla and Prius models, a Congressional investigation, and other public-relations reversals. The company says difficulties stem from trying to grow too quickly. How do you react? Did th
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How to fined a induction motor's insulation good or spoiled by testing
Euro-Libertarian Geert Wilders interviewed by American Libertarian Bruce Bawer
From Eric Dondero:
Today we are running a three-part series over at our sister site Worldwide Liberty, of a recent interview conducted by American journalist Bruce Bawer with Dutch Member of Parliament Geert Wilders.
Bruce is a former liberal reporter for the NY Times, who turned right-libertarian after 9/11. He authored the best seller, "While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within." (Which I have read 5 times over, and is one of my all-time top 5 if not my number one favorite book). The book chronicles what life was like in Western Europe (Denmark, Netherlands, France, Belgium, Sweden, Germany, Norway), immediately after 9/11. He goes into detail about the deep predjudice European Muslims have against Gays, and the violence they've committed against Homosexuals throughout Europe. He also describes the murders at the hands of Islamist assassins of film maker Theo van Gogh (photo - left), and Dutch MP and Presidential candidate Pym Fortuyn (photo - right).
Writes Bawer in the book's intro:
The European political and media establishment turned a blind eye to all this, selling out women, Jews, gays, and democratic principles -- even criminalizing free speech -- in order to pacify the radical Islamists and preserve the illusion of multicultural harmony.
Pym Fortuyn, Theo van Gogh murdered by Muslims on the Streets of Holland
Pym Fortuyn was the longtime Dutch MP, and leader of the Livable Netherlands Party (the forerunner of Wilder's Party of Freedom). An open homosexual, Fortuyn was a former leftwinger who turned rightwing libertarian after watching his beloved Netherlands being taken over by an increasingly radical Islamist element. He was considered the frontrunner for Dutch President in 2002. He was assassinated in the city of Hilversum, in North Holland by Volkert van der Graaf. Van der Graaf was described by the Euro-media as a "radical environmentalist." Yet covered up by the Euro-media was his conversion to Islam, months before the assasination.
Theo van Gogh, great-grand nephew of the famous Dutch painter, was assasinated in 2005 on the streets of Amsterdam. He was a friend of Pym Fortuyn and a member of the Dutch Republican Society. Van Gogh was a radical atheist, who despised all religion. In 2005, he produced a short film titled "Submission," which criticized Islam for its treatment of women. He was murdered by Mohammed Bouyeri, a 26-year-old Dutch-Moroccan citizen. As he pleaded for his life, Bouyeri stuck a long knife in his chest and twisted it, to the horror of passers-by.
Wilders was originally aligned with Fortuyn in the Dutch Parliament. Today he is widely considered the heir to the Fortuyn legacy.
Bawer, one of America's great libertarian authors, ignored by the official Libertarian Movement
His current work "Surrender: Appeasing Islam, Sacrificing Freedom" (available at Amazon) continues in the same vain as his previous work. From Booklist:
Narrowing his scope from While Europe Slept (2005) but retaining its theme of radical Islamic assault on Western civil liberties, Bawer files a hefty brief of case reports on Muslim campaigns against free speech, primarily in western Europe but also in Canada and the U.S. Official infatuation with political correctness (PC), the determination that no one ever be offended, and multiculturalism, the dogma that all cultural perspectives are equally and universally valid...
Amazingly and very dissapointedly, Bruce, who lives in The Netherlands and part-time in Norway, is shunned by the American libertarian movement; No feature write-ups at Reason, no invites to address the Cato Institute, no meetings with top leaders of the Libertarian Party. This despite the fact that he's a self-avowed "libertarian." But his views, that Islam represents the greatest of threats to the liberties of Americans, don't fit the template of the left-leaning on foreign policy Libertarian establishment. To give credence to Bawer (or Wilders for that matter), would put these Left-Libertarians in the uncomfortable position of acknowledging the threat to our Liberties from Radical Islamism.
But Bruce is an absolute hero to Right libertarians. His activism, and certainly the activism of Geert Wilders, serve as a great inspiration to this website, and our movement of pro-defense libertarianism.
Geert Wilders: The World's Greatest Defender of Liberty
From Bruce Bawer (Intro to Video series):
Geert Wilders, a member of the Tweede Kamer and head of the Freedom Party, is a target for countless individuals in the Netherlands who would murder him in the name of Islam, and is obliged to spend his life behind all these layers of protection in order to avoid the unthinkable. In the last decade, after all, there have already been two assassinations of famous Dutch critics of Islam, Pim Fortuyn in 2002 and Theo van Gogh in 2004. And yet Wilders’s opponents in parliament, whose lives are shaped by the impact of the high-level security procedures that have become an everyday routine at their workplace, act as if the very threat that makes these procedures vitally necessary is a chimera. Indeed, to listen to them, and to the media, and to the great majority of the professors and commentators and business leaders who make up the Dutch establishment, is to acquire the distinct impression that it is Wilders himself, and not his Islamic would-be murderers, who represents a danger to Dutch society.
In the interview that follows, I cite an opinion piece that appeared on Thursday in Trouw, a major Dutch newspaper (I mistakenly refer to it as having been in De Volkskrant), in which Thomas Mertens, a law professor at universities in Nijmegen and Leiden, argues that Wilders, by seeking so urgently to clarify for the general public the truth about Islam, is actually undermining the central precept that underlies the Dutch social contract which has been in place for centuries: namely, the agreement among members of different faith traditions to tolerate their theological differences – to close their eyes, as it were, to one another’s truth claims. What Mertens and others like him refuse to acknowledge is that the willingness of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Catholics, Calvinists, Lutherans, and others to agree to disagree about theological abstractions has no relevance whatsoever to the present situation, in which the Netherlands, and the West generally, are confronting a faith tradition for whose most committed adherents theological abstractions have calamitous real-world consequences – not only terrorist attacks but such appalling practices as polygamy, forced marriage, honor killing, and the execution of apostates, gays, and adulteresses.
Indeed, what we are speaking of when we speak about Islam is a religion whose holy book calls for the conquest of infidel-run territories in the name of Allah – a religion, that is, whose guiding beliefs leave no room for the kind of live-and-let-live mentality that Mertens and his ilk think, or pretend to think, can still be relevant in a country whose largest cities will soon have Muslim majorities. In a nation whose guiding philosophy for centuries has been “don’t rock the boat,” Wilders has dared to challenge this traditional attitude and address these terrible realities, and it is for having done so that he is now on trial for speaking his mind – and speaking the truth.
For more information on Bawer's books and activities as well as links to the European right libertarian movement visit: BruceBawer.com
