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Power Consumption Calculation
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Can a Fish Tank Interfere with a Wireless Network?
I just installed a 20 gallon fish tank, filled it with tap water, gravel, and some live plants. It is lit by an Incandescent bulb and has a water filter - no fish yet. It seems that ever since I installed the tank my home wifi signal is flaky. Signal strength has gone down throughout the house.
Ayn Randian blogger Pamela Geller endorses Chuck DeVore for US Senate in California GOP primary
From Eric Dondero:
Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs, a contributor to NewsMax and frequent guest on Fox News, has come out for libertarian-conservative Republican Chuck DeVore in the California primary for US Senate; the Barbara Boxer seat. Republicans Carly Fiorna and former Rep. Tom Campbell are also in the race. Campbell has come under fire recently for having once accepted a $500 contribution from a jailed Islamic Jihadist.
Wrote Geller in a blog post two days ago:
Forgive me for not talking up Chuck DeVore earlier. I have been watching him for awhile and I love him. He is going against that car alarm of a politician, Barbara Boxer, and RINO Carla Fiorina.
He is a tea party favorite and an Atlas favorite as well.
Geller was particularly impressed with Assemblyman DeVore's strong criticisms of Muslim students at UC-Irvine who recently tried to block a speech on campus by Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren. 11 Members of the Muslim Student Union were arrested. DeVore also criticized the group of supporting the terrorist organization Hamas, and actively fundraising for the organization.
Geller's previous endorsements include her longtime friend and ally Lt. Col. Allen West, an economic libertarian and staunch critic of radical Islam, running for Congress in Florida. DeVore, is also a Military Veteran, officer in the Army Reserves.
In the legislature DeVore has been a champion tax fighter and budget cutter, as well as a fierce opponent of nanny-state laws such as smoking bans and bans on trans fats.
Geert Wilders party PVV expected to make big gains in local elections
Campaigns for Dutch culture and against illegal immigration from the Middle East
The Hague is the second largest city in all of the Netherlands. The official royal home of the Dutch Queen, the city also serves as both the seat of the Dutch government and the provincal capitol. Additionally, The Hague serves as the judicial capitol for the United Nations.
The city population is 480,000. The metro area includes nearly 1.1 million inhabitants.
On March 3, the Dutch libertarian party (PVV - Party For Freedom) could become the second largest party in the municipality.
The Dutch News, Feb. 27:
The PVV is tipped to emerge as the biggest party in Almere and second biggest in the Hague.
Wilders was campaigning last week in Almere emphasizing pride in distinctly Dutch culture and strong opposition to Muslim women wearing the burqa in government buildings and at government-subsidized events.
Continuing:
'Almere must become the safest city in the Netherlands,' he said. 'There will be an end to subsidies for Turkish macramé and Arabic finger painting. Not just the Netherlands but all of Europe will look to Almere.'
Almere is a planned city in the central Netherlands with 184,000 residents. Both The Hague and Almere have been plagued by an influx of illegal immigration in recent years from Turkey and the Middle East.
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Russian Nanotechnology Corporation Participates in Production of Scanning Probe Microscopes
The Supervisory Council of RUSNANO has approved the corporation's participation in a project to widen production of measuring-analytical equipment for nanotechnology in material sciences, biology, and medicine.
Nanoscale heart imaging doesn’t miss a beat
A European team of researchers has developed a novel nanoscale scanning technique that gives experts a detailed look at how heart failure impacts the surface of a person's heart muscle cell.
Exploring the implications of nanotechnology
When Arizona State University researchers talk about the nanorevolution, they mean more than something limited to the technological realm.
NRC Report on NASA’s Suborbital Program
"The Space Studies Board (SSB) was requested by NASA to conduct a review of the suborbital mission capabilities of NASA in the NASA Authorization Act of 2008 (Section 505). The act expresses the sense of Congress that suborbital flight activities, including the use of sounding rockets, aircraft, and high-altitude balloons, and suborbital reusable launch vehicles, offer valuable opportunities to advance science, train the next generation of scientists and engineers, and provide opportunities for participants in the programs to acquire skills in systems engineering and systems integration that are critical to maintaining the nation's leadership in space programs. Further, the act finds it in the national interest to expand the size of NASA's suborbital research program and to consider it for increased funding."
Sprint Cuts Palm Pixi’s Price to $50 [PalmPixi]
Capitalism! Sprint was cool offering Palm Pixi for $100, until Verizon's Palm Pixi Plus slid in underneath at $79. Well Sprint's having none of that, slashing the original Palm Pixi's price to a mere $50 for new customers, after all of the rebates and contracts and what have you. Remember, the candybar Pixi doesn't have Wi-Fi and has a slightly smaller screen than the Pre, but if you or someone you know isn't quite ready for a big boy phone, a $50 Pixi could be hard to resist. Also remember, hard times ahead for Palm. [Sprint]
Variable Speed Reliance Drive for DC Motor
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For Massachusetts, awaiting a decision by Bob Hedlund, but libertarian-conservative Jeff Perry jumps in
The southern Massachusetts Congressional seat of Democrat Rep. William Delahunt has been in the news, with yet another Kennedy making noises of a run - Robert Kennedy III, grandson of RFK - on the Democrat side. (AP article)
Longtime Libertaian Republican Bob Hedlund, is still weighing a run for the Congressional seat of the embattled representative.
From the Boston Herald, Feb. 3:
Hedlund, an 18-year senator and part-time radio host, said internal polls done by his campaign show him “within striking distance” of beating Delahunt in a head-to-head race. But the polling also shows a bruising battle in a three-way GOP primary against Perry (R-Sandwich) and former state Treasurer Joseph Malone, who is also weighing a run...
Meanwhile, Hedlund's friend and political ally in the Legislature has decided to jump in. Upon announcing State Rep. Jeffrey Perry said:
"They need someone who will stand up for the things they believe in and fight for action on issues like real health care reform without mandates, better job opportunities, checks on illegal immigration, national security, lower taxes and less national debt, and an end to the insider and special-interest dealing that permeates Capitol Hill. People across the South Shore, Cape Cod & the Islands are tired and frustrated with what they see as a system in Washington that’s broken and that’s incapable of progress on issues that matter to them. I want to be someone who changes that."
Perry is viewed as one of the two most conservative members of the Massachusetts Legislature. He's on record in favor of denying illegal immigrants state benefits that "cost Massachusetts legal residents millions of dollars every year."
I was wrong……AHEM
Ok,
I was wrong. When GC said: “The GET Conference 2010 marks the last opportunity in history to gather a majority of individuals in the world with public personal genome sequences in a single venue,”
I said:
"That is a pretty heady statement by Dr. Church. Does he really think 2010 will be the year that 1000s of people will get whole genomes done?
I say, maybe a little hype. How about hundreds? Maybe...."
I said this with some conviction because I was uncertain that the companies out there would be able to use the genome samples as useful tools, like the exomes Church did or Watson's sequence from the Rothberg team........BTW, Nice release on the Ion Torrents stuff Jonathan. Will you be deploying it with 23andMe?
In all seriousness the AGBT meeting is proving me wrong.
We will have 1000s of Genomes. Keith Robison took me to task too......but I still maintain that the spirit of what I said remains.
The quality of Genomes will not be such as that of Jimbo and the Boys and XXs up there on stage.......
However, I am paying attention to Ion Torrent and Rothberg's ability to juice this thing up quicker than we can imagine........check here on the 27th for an update.
Seriously, he is going to prove me dead wrong. When I met with him in sleepy 'Ol guilford out by the sound he had some exciting stuff going on. I only wish we could have spent more time together so I could learn about it.......
So my question remains, will George be right or will I? That's the challenge to the scientists in the space........prove me wrong! Crank out 1000 genomes of high quality. Crank out so many quality genomes that we can finally do something with them......I beg you JR.
Prove the Sherpa Wrong!
Acts of Desperation
Charlie Precourt: ATK's astronaut fights Obama space plan, Orlando Sentinel
"As reported on these pages earlier this week, some folks inside NASA and in Congress say ATK has been behind the sniping at NASA's deputy administrator Lori Garver. The not so-thinly veiled broadside against her in Precourt's email appears to lend further credence to the charges. It's hard to understand how this will help ATK going forward as some could see it as a declaration of war on NASA's political leadership and is almost certain to strengthen Garver's hand. Perhaps ATK decided that with the shuttle being retired and Constellation on the brink it has nothing left to lose."
Keith's note: It is openly known here in Washington that ATK has been overtly encouraging anti-NASA gossip and has been trash talking the White House, Charlie Bolden, and Lori Garver - especially Lori Garver. How ATK management can possibly expect this thinly disguised attack behavior to be good for business escapes me. Indeed, it sounds more like sheer desperation on their part.
Sen. Vitter Has Been Drinking the Koolaid, earlier post
What’s Ahead for Earth and Us
“Three of nine boundaries – climate change, biodiversity and nitrogen fixation – have been exceeded.”
Unnaturally heating and cooling the planet (Image: Mauri Rautkari/Rex Features)
A hotter earth is a situation that that will lead to many other issues very soon, like lack of water and food, extinctions, change in air quality, and more. In a new article in New Scientist these issues are separated into nine individual challenges that people will have to soon deal with. (Never mind getting some people to even admit they exist). This particular list is about Earth’s nine “support systems” and how they are being threatened by human activity.
Every year or so someone puts together a list like this to bluntly point out to people, very clearly, what is at stake. In 2008 there was a list of the 9 critical tipping points we are approaching with climate change, and I have read others that are similar.  Which list is more important to you is probably based on whether or not you are concerned about the future effects of climate change, or are worried about the planet, or are worried about animals, etc. I like this list because it emphasizes the bottom line of climate change: how far can we push the earth’s systems before they will no longer support human life? Personally, I’m not as worried about the particular animals or fish or trees as I am about people. The planet will likely be OK no matter what we do to it, with new species evolving to take the place of others that go extinct, but it’s very possible that humans will cause their own extinction. If we ruin this planet, our only home, to the point where it can no longer support us, that’s it for us. We have no where else to go.
Because there are so many people who deny climate change is even happening right in front of their eyes and therefore pushing for no action at all, things could get very ugly in a few years. The saddest thing of all is that it doesn’t have to be that way. If we were taking aggressive steps now to prepare for climate change’s worst effects and strongly curbing emissions, we could transition into a hotter world a little easier, and there would be less loss of life. But it’s not happening that way. Here is what to look out for in the coming years. Each segment leads to its own article.
EARTH’S NINE LIVES
From New Scientist
UP TO now, the Earth has been very kind to us. Most of our achievements in the past 10,000 years – farming, culture, cities, industrialisation and the raising of our numbers from a million or so to almost 7 billion – happened during an unusually benign period when Earth’s natural regulatory systems kept everything from the climate to the supply of fresh water inside narrow, comfortable boundaries.
This balmy springtime for humanity is known as the Holocene. But we [...]