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But internal divisions, disagreement about political tactics and Obama's 2012 re-election add up to uncertainty over whether Republicans will vote on a plan of their own before the 2014 elections, or if not by then, perhaps before the president leaves office, more than six years after the original promise.
Sixteen months before those elections, some Republicans cite no need to offer an alternative. "I don't think it's a matter of what we put on the floor right now," said Rep. Greg Walden of
Rep. Fred Upton of Michigan, who leads a committee with jurisdiction over health care, said, "If we are successful in ultimately repealing this legislation, then yes, we will have a replacement bill ready to come back with."
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With the rank and file growing more conservative, some Republicans acknowledge that without changes, they likely couldn't pass the alternative measure they backed when Democrats won approval for Obama's bill in 2010. Among other provisions, it encouraged employers to sign up their workers for health insurance automatically, so that employees would have to "opt out" of coverage if they didn't want it, and provided federal money for state-run high-risk pools for individuals and for reinsurance in the small group market.
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But Rep. Paul Broun, R-Ga., said, "We never did see a repeal and replace bill last time," referring to the 2011-2012 two-year term that followed the Republican landslide. "I hope we can this time, and I'll keep fighting for it."
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March 5, 2012. Alexandria 2010 Census Data Profile. A profile of the city in 2010 prepared by city staff based on a variety of U.S. Census sources is now available for on-line viewing or downloading. Based on the 2010 U.S. Census, 2006-2010 American Community Survey 5-year average data by census tract, and the 2010 American Community Survey, the report includes comparisons to the City in 2000 and earlier, to surrounding areas including the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, and to the U.S as a whole. Data on population and race dating from the first U.S. Census in 1790 is included. The report outlines the important and continuing influence of the postwar baby boom on growth and change in the U.S. and the city. Recent changes in race and ethnicity within the city are mapped. The report also includes data on income, education, housing tenancy, ancestry, commuting, disability, foreign-born population, geographic mobility, and many other characteristics that help define the Alexandria of today.
December 8, 2011. American Community Survey 2006-2010 5-year Average data has been released by the Census Bureau. The 5-year average data includes data to the block group level and information on a wide variety of topics such as income, employment, commuting, years at current residence and others not covered in the 2010 decennial census. Summary tables for the City of Alexandria are linked at the American Community Survey link above.
The most recent official Census Bureau estimate of the population of the City of Alexandria is 139,966 as of April 1, 2010, from the 2010 Census complete count. This count was published on February 3, 2011. Historic Census data and forecasts of future population, households and employment are included in the City's most recent Statistical Profile, linked below.
Previous estimates published by the Census Bureau indicated a population as high as 150,006 in 2009. The new count does not indicate a decline since 2009, but is an indication that the 2009 estimate was more than the City's actual population at that time. Intercensal estimates are based on secondary data and a small sample of the population, and in general cannot be as accurate as the complete Census counts. The City still needs to verify that the 2010 Census count is accurate based on City information on housing construction, occupancy and other factors.
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evaluate technology-driven solutions to improve the security and efficiency of national and local aviation. Prior to joining Symantec, Thompson had a distinguished career with the IBM Corporation where he held senior executive positions in
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Jerry Kaplan is widely known in the computer industry as a serial entrepreneur, executive, technical innovator, and author. Most recently, he was co-chairman of Egghead.com, Inc. Previously, Mr. Kaplan served as chairman
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degree in history and philosophy of science from the University of Chicago (1972), a Doctorate degree in computer and information science from the University of Pennsylvania (1979), and was a research associate in Computer Science at
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2002. Before PayPal, Mr. Musk co-founded Zip2 Corporation in 1995, a leading provider of enterprise software and services to the media industry, with investments from The New York Times Company, Knight-Ridder, MDV, Softbank and the Hearst
Corporation. He served as Chairman, CEO and Chief Technology Officer and in March 1999 sold Zip2 to Compaq for $307 million in an all cash transaction. Mr. Musk's early experience extends across a spectrum of advanced technology
industries, from high energy density ultra-capacitors at Pinnacle Research to software development at Rocket Science and Microsoft. He has a physics degree from the University of Pennsylvania, a business degree from Wharton and originally
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Kim Smith is co-founder and CEO of NewSchools Venture Fund, which she established in 1998 to transform public education by supporting education entrepreneurs. In NewSchools, Kim created a new "hybrid" approach to
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career as a consultant specializing in business-education partnerships. In 1989, she became a founding team member of Teach For America (TFA). She then put her TFA experience to work in the post of founding director of BAYAC AmeriCorps, a
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Shaw at the Annual Organizational Meeting on April 6, 1987 at the East Rockaway Village MAYOR SWORN IN. Beginning his second term as Chiet Executive of the Incorporated Village of Lynbrook, Mayor William P. Geler is sworn into office by Village Justice O'Connor at Organizational Night, April 6,1987 at Village Hall. Before a packed audience, the Mayor was given a standing ovation. New Principal At North The Special Meeting of the Lynbrook Board of Trustees was held at Village Hall on April 8, 1987 with Mayor Bill Geier explaining that the Board had been reviewing the Tentative Budget for 1987/88 in order to take care of the necessary increases and determine if it was possible to lower it. The budget rate of $256 per hundred and makes a tax increase 19 53%. Previous estimates had placed the anticipated in-crease at 25%. Shirley Moskowitz, Vil-lage Clerk and Chief Budget Officer explained was brought about by many fac-tors such as the loss of the usual $200,000 Federal Revenue Sharing for Lyn- -brook and the fact that many increases in thecost of running me village have gone up. She answered ques-tions from the floor and explained different pay increases for village person-nel etc. Joseph LaRocco, Ted Campbell, Louise Camp-bell, Gene Scarpato, Bill Smith, Ben Rashkin, Mrs. Annunciato, Bruce Lein, Tony Schuerman, Joan Fit7,gerald and others made comments or asked ques-tions about the budget. The Mayor and Trustees did not take an increase in salary. Many village employees will get an 8% pay rise due to a cost of living increase and also longevity pay in some cases. One sharp rise mentioned by the Mayor was the dispo-sal of solid waste which costs $28 per ton to dump with space running out all over the island for disposal of refuse and rubbish. The Board formally accepted and approved the budget after some lenghty discussion and questions from the floor about the figures. April 6,1987 The Lynbrook Board of Trustees Meeting, April 6, 1987 was highlighted by a p p o i n t m e n t s d u r i ng Organization Night and a Proclamation. Mayor Bill Geier and Trustees Norman Dreyer and Dominick DiCarlo, Jr. were sworn into office by Village Justice John O'Con-nor followed by the announcement of liasons for the ensuing year: Liason with the Volunteer Fire Dept, Mayor Geier; lia-son with Recreation Insu-rance and Non-Contractual Employees, Trustee Nor-man Dreyer; Trustee Ste-phen Grogan, Police, Build-ing, and Assessing Depts; Elaine Boll Seeks Reelection Superintendent of Schoo-ls Bern Seiderman announ-ces the appointment of Donald Slover as the new principal of Lynbrook North Middle School. Mr. Slover, a math teacher at the high school, will succeed James Lennon, who is retir-ing in June. A veteran of 20 years of service in the Lynbrook School District, Don Slover spent most of his "years teaching seventh and eighth grade mathematics at North. A summer high school principal for 10 of those years, he also served as junior high baseball coach and basketball ccach. When he attended St. Agnes High School, Mr. Lennon was his coach and Dean of Men. A graduate of Providence College with a degree in math education, Mr. Slover also earned a Masters Degree at Boston College and an Administrative Cer-tificate at Hofstra. He is married to the former Eliza-beth Rafferty Since 1969 and they have four children, James, 16, Kathy, 14, Colette, 12, and Bradley, 7. The Slovers enjoy family travel and spend most of their summers in Pennsylvania. The new principal sees computers as an integral part of all programs at North and makes that a number one priority. "This is a great school," he say^ golf, wishing he was better at it, loves to read, and take the family skiing. He is enthusi-astic about his new role in the district and looks for-ward to "getting started." Thrilled with the appoint-ment, he confesses that Jim Lennon "is a tough act to follow" but hopes with the help of the excellent staff, that he will be able to main-tain the standards "so admirably set" by the retiring principal. Elaine Boll has announced her candidacy for re-election to the East Rockaway Board of Education. Mrs. Boll has served the district as School Board Trustee since 1984. She has served as Vice Pres-ident of the Board for the past two years. Mrs. Boll states, "I am proud of the progress of our School District. We are moving in a positive and responsible direction. I would like to continue to serve our children and tax-payers for another three years." Mrs. Boll cites as major Board accomplishments the r e n o v a t i o n of Centre Avenue School and East Rockaway High School, the successful passage of a bond referendum to rebuild the Rhame Avenue School and improved coordination of curriculum. Elaine Boll, an insurance broker for an international insurance brokerage firm, is a graduate of Centre Avenue School and East Rockaway High School." She is active in the newly formed ERHS Alumni Association and serves as Treasurer of that organization. Elaine and her husband, Dick, are life-long residents-of East Rockaway and the parents of two sons, Richard and Brian, also ERHS alumni and a daughter, Karen, currently a sopho-more at the high school. "The present Board has worked well as a team to improve education in East Rockaway. I would like to see our progress continue," stated Mrs. Boll. "Our chil-dren are worth our very best efforts!" By Annette Ling T r u s t e e Leo Lanning, Department of Public Works, Library; and Trus-tee Dominick DiCarlo, Jr, Drug Abuse Council, and SafetyPSH Aand TVASNAQ. 1 he following appoint-ments were made for the ensuing year as the Mayor asked them to take the oath in a group; Deputy Treas-urer Carol Hansen; Village Attorney, Jay Korth; Dep-uty Village Attorney, Jack Libert; Secretary to the Mayor and Board, Mary Ann Hughes; Research Assistant to the Mayor and Board Len Llewelyn; Asses-sor, Ray Mathie; Acting Vil-lage Justice, Eugene Natale; Village Prosecuting Attor-ney, Philip Marino; Deputy P r o s e c u t i n g Attorney, Kevin Murtagh; Court Clerk, Marie Kehr; Superin- (Continued on Page 4) Health Fair The East Rockaway Kiwanis Club has announced that it will hold its second annual Health Fair on Sat-urday, May 2, 1987, at St. Raymond's School, located on Atlantic Avenue in East Rockaway. There will be a wide range of services available, includ-ing free blood pressure tests, hearing, diabetis, vision, dental and throat examina-tions. A chiropractor and at least six other physicians are planning to be on hand to offer any advise to those attending. All services and tests will be free of charge, as a public service from the Kiwanis Club. The Fair will be held in St. Raymond's cafeteria from 10 am to 4 pm, so stop by and stay healthy! Registration Days Donal Slover "and my job is to make sure it stays that way. It is effi-ciently run and the code of discipline set by Mr. Lennon is respected by the kids because it is fair and just." Mr. Slover is expecially happy with the fine teach-ing staff. "The students here get a really good education-when you walk through the halls you know that feeling that education is going on." Don Slover likes to play The East Rockaway Board of Education has announced that voter regis-tration for new residents and new voters will take place in the District Office, East Rockaway High School on: Tuesday, April 28, 1987 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Wednesday, April 29, 1987 from 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Thursday, April 30, 1987 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Friday, May I, 1987 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Any East Rockaway resi-dent who has moved from one address to another within the district must re-register on these days. New voters and new resi-dents must be Citizens of the USA, 18 years of age and residents of the district for 30 days. In addition, registration may be completed on the voting day, May 12th from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. in the gym-nasium for persons not reg-istered with the school dis-trict but who have voted in National, State or County (Continued on Fage 12) BATTLING DRUGS AT WAVERLY PARK SCHOOL. State Senator Dean Skelos recently visited Mrs. Solon's fifth grade class during their "say nope to dope" P.R.LD.E. seminar held by INassau County police officer Henning. Also pictured, school principal Barbara Hayes.
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What is the most awe inspiring fact you know?
Quite self explanatory really, To say one I love the idea that the carbon atoms in my fingers could have been part of a T-Rex at some point :)
French ette
May 29 2012: Growing up, my father told me the most important thing in life was to take action. If you are down, take some kind of action even if it is just walking around the block. Take action by setting a goal to change circumstances, take action by making a plan, read a book / learn something new… stand up for what is right... the possibilities are endless… Over the years I have found this to be literally the best advice I ever received. I have especially enjoyed learning that science backs up my father's advice…
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Karen G.
May 29 2012: Lucky you. Wise dad!Jun 2 2012: Actions ... taking actions ... great advice. thank you for sharing.Jun 3 2012: I teach this to my kids all the time, but I'm terrible at practicing it. I need to do this more.
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Gabo Moreno
May 28 2012: That my atoms formed in the bellies of stars. That I would not survive one femtosecond the conditions necessary for my atoms to exist. That my atoms traveled to places far beyond my most extravagant travels within this little planet. That just that makes me one with the universe. That I am an instance, and an instant, of this universe, this matter, this energy, thinking about itself. Thinking! That whatever time I have, I have, and it's astounding.
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May 29 2012: He surely does !May 29 2012: star born
our dust will be star blown
will in the womb of everything
breed stars
(Harry Smith, Poet)May 29 2012: That is indeed the big picture!
Adam MacGowan
Jun 9 2012: I think it is awe inspiring that we are all here together, right now, at this moment in time and space.
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The probability of a sun and "goldilocks" planet like ours ever forming seems to be really... well, rather small. That Earth has all the right geological and chemical conditions for life to begin also seem to be pretty darned lucky. The odds that self aware forms of life like us could ever evolve seems to be almost (but not quite) miraculous. Yet, here we are. Of course, in a century (or 2 perhaps :) everyone that we know and love will be dead and gone forever. Everyone you every loved, everyone that shaped who you are, or moved you to tears. In several billion years our planet will no longer support life, but the universe will stretch on continually for unimaginable epics.
When we look around at other people on the street we are looking at the culmination of a truly unimaginable set of circumstances. If we could ever truly understand how awe inspiring this is I imagine we would just drop everything and embrace eachother in the streets... clinging together like life rafts on a vast and endless ocean...
Knowing all this, it is still nearly impossible for me to chat to the stranger next to me on the bus.
Barry Palmer
Jun 10 2012: Wow! Print this out and take it with you when you ride the bus. When you are on the bus, read it, and pretend a stranger wrote it. Then you will realize what a precious moment you are sharing with that stranger sitting next to you. You might show them the paper, and just tell them look what someone wrote. Life is too short. Make the most of every opportunity.
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Lee Walls
Jun 12 2012: Adam, this is a wonderful view on life, i think we should all print it off and take it on the bus with usMay 29 2012: The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.
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Terry Haynes
May 29 2012: I guess that the coolest thing I ever learned and that was when I was nine years old and had a telescope that the futher you look out in space that the futher back in time you are looking at because of the speed of light and so on a starry night look up and you will be looking back in time. Been doing that ever since. Anyone can do it. Imagine looking at a star that took thousands of years for its light to reach here. That's looking back into time. Now that is a awe inspiring fact that we can look hundreds if not thousands of years back in time by looking out into space on a clear night.
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May 30 2012: Love that Terry..that was my first encounter with awe as well..my Dad bought a telescope to track Sputnick when I was 11. .One bitterly cold January night he put the telescope on Andromeda and as I looked at it through the scope , he told me it was so far away and the light took so long to get here to us that it might not be there anymore. I just became suspended, somewhere beyond analysis and comprehension, beyond the precision and math of our nightly collaboration of exact time, declination and azimuth.
May 30 2012: Thank you Lindsay for your comment to what I said. Its amazing what a little math and science can do with observation. Even the light from our own sun takes a little over 8 minutes to reach here.Jun 2 2012: And how does that make you feel ? the fact that you can look back in time and see things happening in millions of years ago and millions of light years away ... what does that mean ? I also feel the awww but my mind is trying to make some sense out of it ... what does that tell us ? - by the way thank you for sharing this great fascinating fact
Terry Haynes
Jun 2 2012: Thank you for replying Sina. I will try to answer your questions from the heart as well as the head. I was nine when my father explained to me about the speed of light and how to use that knowledge to look at the universe in other ways. I lived in and still live in a area where you can see the night sky really well even without a telescope so before I had one I would on clear nights just lay outside and was awed by what I seeing. All the different points of light. It was and still is awsome to do that. By knowing that with using the speed of light with distance that I was actually looking by into time as well made what I was already amazied by even more awe inspiring. I know that man has been gazing up at the universe since man has been arround with awe. For a nine year old to be able to realize that for all those objects in space there is distance and with distance comes time, It was a awe inspiring fact. That I could look back into time was awsome. How does that make me feel? More knowledgable about what I am seeing, still awestruck. The fact that we can with our best telescopes look back into time almost to when the big bang happened. For me its like a history book of our universe that we can check out. There are more questions than answers about our universe but with technology and math we are getting closer to understanding it and how it works.But anyway its still something awe inspiring to think about.
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Jun 2 2012: "its like a history book of our universe" ... I couldn't think of a better way of putting it. Thank you a million times for sharing this wonderful experience. I will view the night sky from this windows you created the next time I have the luxury of watching it outside the light pollution of city.May 29 2012: I think these are a few of the best unmentioned ones, we're only 1% different genetically from chimps, we're all related to the grass in your garden, if an alien in a different galaxy made a big enough telescope to see earth they would see it millions/ billions of years ago, don't think anyone mentioned the moon landing, if you took all the neurons in your body and unraveled them they'd go around the earth 2.5 times and would take 6 hours to send a signal the length of it,May 29 2012: that we know absolutely nothing about dark matter(25%) and dark energy (70%) of which most of the universe is comprised..trhat the part we know only a tiny bit about is such a small part of the universe.(5%).
May 29 2012: or dark energy,
Adam Cross
Jun 4 2012: The fact that a map of the universe looks very much like synapses in a human brain.
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Jun 5 2012: Some time ago I looked through a telescope and thought the same thing... I found it awe inspiring that something on such a large scale looks the same as something on such a tiny scale... I tried to explain this to someone with not much luck... you have just explained it so simply and elegantly. Thank you :)
www.thanknest.comJun 9 2012: What about all the things that don't look like a brain synapse?
What about all the other things that look like other things?
It is amazing we see patterns. Our brain is amazing
Gaurav Gupta
Jun 3 2012: This is also a realization.
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All reasoning individuals, those that reason everything, question their own belief system continuously. Because they do, they are always in doubt of what is "right".
All those who believe are never in doubt of what is "right".
This means that those who live in doubt, are always in a state of weakness. And those who are in a state of faith are always in a state of strength.
However, it is the reasoning doubting ones who are really strong because they can live in this weakness of strength and discovery. Just the fact that scientists have more cause to celebrate when a theory is disproved and a new paradigm is created.
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Jun 4 2012: Thank you for your comment.
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I agree with "it is illogical to make any claim about "all" people in any grouping". I really meant to point towards the majority that sustains a major idea, be it science or faith. There may still be a problem with generalization here, however the idea is to find a common distinction between the scientific group (that strictly believes in science) and the other group (that largely accepts science in the paradigm of faith).
So my understanding was, one would believe in something, only because there are reasons to believe in it.
Once reasons run out, we turn to faith. As a result, we try to reason away any uncertainty with "faith".
The advantage of uncertainty is, if we could learn to live with uncertainty, there is a greater chance that we would reach new answers and better questions, opposed to a situation where we do away with uncertainty with faith.Jun 9 2012: Depends if what you have faith in is anything close to the truth or is useful.
It is nonsense to state a made up an absolute truism like faith = strength.
Doubt = weakness.
Questioning has led to science and technology - medicine etc. What good has fundamentalism related to any dogma given humans.
Certainty about things not backed up with reasonable evidence is delusion. It may be useful, it may not.
Absolute faith in nonsense is potentially dangerous.
I suggest what takes us closer to the truth is more useful than believing in nonsense.
No issue with practical knowledge that can be proven e.g. I have two eyes.
Faith in claims that are extraordinary without reasonable evidence, without evaluation is locking in ignorance.
Give me healthy skepticism, reason and evidence any time over fundamentalist claims about what is true or right.
I will give you that in some circumstances it is better to rely on your intuition and make a snap judgement e.g. in times of immediate danger. The rest of the time you are wasting that brain of yours if you don't question, if you don't reason, if you don't look for evidence etc.
Your path of believing what you want to believe is true or right without evidence clashes with other equally ignorant assumptions. Sad really if you can not see that this stops us from learning, from dialogue and discussion about what is true and good etc.Jun 11 2012: Guarav - "This means that those who live in doubt, are always in a state of weakness. And those who are in a state of faith are always in a state of strength"
The opposite is true in my opinion. To have doubt is actually to have great strength.
Voyages of discovery are seldom made entirely with the comforting assurances of the 'known'.
"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore." (Andre Gide).
Faith and belief are not strengths. I think they are comforting, homely assurances for those who need to feel emotionally grounded somewhere, and who may NOT actually have the courage to leave that shoreline.
Jun 12 2012: Allan, I agree with you whole heartedly.
I could not have better summaried my sentiments.
I feel what you call "emotionally grounded" is what I meant by being in a "state of strength"... i.e. feeling strong, perhaps by feeling grounded, comforted or by believing in the fact that there is a god that is omniscient and therefore can protect from everything.
Owen Murphy
Jun 2 2012: The fact that when you walk around in any house, nearly every item was originally just an idea or figment of imagination in someone's mind.
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Jun 9 2012: Wow Owen, that is really an amazing insight, and something I had never even considered. I will try to use it as my new awareness overlay :)May 31 2012: That there is really something called subconscious mind ..and we can experience a lot of happiness if we program it positivelyMay 31 2012: This world is never 'black and white', it's just shades of grey.
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Joshua Smith
Jun 2 2012: That Honey Badgers existMay 31 2012: If we leave something alone the natural tendency is for it to go from a state of order to disorder as per the laws of thermodynamics. this explains the flawed nature of the entire universe. It has helped me to deal with the imperfections in human condition
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Rafi Amin
May 31 2012: 1) Even impossible has the word possible.
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2) You have lost the war even if you have won it.
Gaurav Gupta
Jun 16 2012: I just figured that a billionaire who had 30 Billion dollars had more money than 39 of the poorest countries put together.
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Also, he had more money than the whole nation of Democratic Republic of Congo earns in an year, and Congo has 72 Million people!!
Jun 16 2012: That's incredible
Robert Mayer
Jun 8 2012: That there are the same amount of numbers between 0 and 1 as there are between 0 and 2
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Jun 12 2012: Never knew that numbers could exist.
To my view all is one that you can divide as much as you please.
Rafi Amin
Jun 4 2012: that you are never too old to set new goals or dream new dreams. C.S. Lewis.
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Jim Moonan
Jun 4 2012: It is this: the more you know the less you know.
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Paul Palmer
Jun 2 2012: That light waves can travel for 13 billion years across the universe with its electric and magnetic fields continually interacting according to Maxwell's equations and they never even get slightly out of synch. It seems to me like the most exquisite example of physical exactitude, following a mathematical description, that I have ever heard of.
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Alex Longpre
May 30 2012: I read somewhere that they found worms in Tchernobyl, that ingest radioactive soil and reject a healty medium. That showed me the true strenght of nature and to me, THAT is truly awe inspiring.
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Gaurav Gupta
May 30 2012: Another one that I find awe inspiring is as follows:
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Our "Perceptual Contexts", the way it affects what we are able to see. Just like the limits of our senses ... the way we could only perceive a small part of the electromagnetic spectrum (and perceive that as reality... which, come to think of it, is another awe inspiring fact)
This perceptual contexts gives us reasoning as follows:
If we know that the space is expanding, we immediately start thinking that it must be expanding into something. Or what may lie beyond its current expanse?
This human perceptual context thrills me every day of my life, just as I think.May 29 2012: No matter what you know, or how much you've seen, there is something even better just waiting to be discovered.May 29 2012: The discovery that planets are common in our Galaxy really amazes me. Until two decades ago we had never observed a single planet outside our solar system; until last year we had observed a few hundred of them; and today we know there is around a billion planet in our own galaxy. That makes it really hard to believe we are alone in the universe.
I'm going to go watch MIB3.
John Maguire
May 29 2012: To expand on this, I am always amazed when I think about how many stars there are... there are (quite likely) more stars in the universe than there are grains of sand on Earth. Have you ever been to a Beach? There is a *LOT* of sand. Mathematicians at the University of Hawaii estimated there are 7,500,000,000,000,000,000 grains of sand on Earth. That is 7.5 x 10^18.
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Now, in our galaxy alone (the Milky Way), the most frequently stated estimate is approximately 400,000,000,000 (that's 400 billion) stars, with a 50% error plausible in either direction. So somewhere between 200,000,000,000 and 600,000,000,000 stars in our galaxy. The Hubble Space Telescope can detect about 80,000,000,000 (80 billion or 8 x 10^10) galaxies, however this does not account for all galaxies.
Assuming that our galaxy has a normal number of stars with conservative estimates (2 x 10^11), and use the amount of galaxies the HST can detect (8 x 10^10)... (2 x 10^11) x (8 x 10^10) = 16 x 10^21.
Going back to our estimate of grains of sand on Earth, that was 7.5 x 10^18. Dividing (16 x 10^21) / (7.5 x 10^18) = 2133.33...
That means for every grain of sand on Earth, there are over 2,000 stars in the universe.
Peter Law
May 29 2012: Someone also calculated this required the formation of an average of 30,000 stars PER SECOND from the estimated time of the Big Bang.
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:-)May 29 2012: This is the greatest moment that you and I have ever lived !
As long as we believe there was a better yesterday or that tomorrow holds for us some guarantee, we are missing out on the greatest moment that we will ever have and that is right now.
May 29 2012: YES Mwenjew...YES, YES, YES to this moment:>)
The most awe inspiring fact I witness in this moment, is that the gardens are beautifully washed with the gentle rains all night.........GORGEOUS...in my humble perception:>)
Yesterday and the day before were perfectly sunny and I had the opportunity to plant more vegetables. Today is perfectly rainy to water the new seedlings and seeds....how perfectly awe inspiring is that???
May 29 2012: Just sitting here wondering...... who came up with this "weekly number of ratings for a user"
thumbs up ! ( they cant max these out ) ;-)
May 29 2012: HA!!! I still have some thumbs up left for you this week, and THAT my friend, is AWESOME...the MOST AWESOME thing in this moment:>)Jun 10 2012: We experience a model of reality.
Brian Cox
Jun 7 2012: Loving all the posts thus far...couple of my favorites:
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1. Humankind has experienced 0.004% of the Earth's total history.
2. The presence of dark matter suggests there may be a multiverse.
3. We've only explored 5% of the ocean.
4. Tesla. Was. Awesome.
Jun 7 2012: Hydrogen formed shortly after the formation of the universe. What began as little imperfections while the universe was small, later created extra areas of density that later evolved into strings of galaxies each of which contain billions (I mean BULLIONS!) of stars.
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Every star goes through a life cycle where through fusion new elements are created, form in their cores, then themselves become the fuel of still denser elements, until we get to iron. At the end of its life, the star has shells of iron, silicon, nitrogen, oxygen, carbon, helium, and hydrogen. Shortly thereafter the balance between heat and gravity swings wiildly until the star dies and explodes. The energy released in the final explosion outshines the rest of the galaxy and simultaneously creates all of the rest of the elements in the periodic table (the supernova elements!).
But from our perspective, here's where the story gets interesting. The shells explode through one another and mix together. Also the denser elements at the core of the star don't travel as far as the lighter elements. This explain why the inner planets have iron cores and why the Oort Cloud has so many comets that contain water. Somehow the giant gas cloud collapses back into itself again and we get our Sun. While the gas cloud is forming it flattens into a disc. Heavier elements create pockets of density that eventually become gravitational distortions. These distortions spin more slowly than the rest of the disc and eddy forces build up until they spin in opposite direction of the disc. Then one day the center of the new gas cloud becomes dense that gravity implodes it into a new star. Then the shockwaves explode outward clearing out the planetary disc leaving planets made of heavier elements.
All of the elements the Earth and we are made of were first forged in a previous star. We are literally star dust!Jun 7 2012: A generation is about 30 years. A line of people 67 generations long stretch back to the time of Christ. Not a very long line.
Jun 6 2012: Many spiders use a technique called 'ballooning' they stand at the tip of a leaf or other precipice and release a strand of silk into the air, once this strand is long enough and the wind exerts enough pull on the spider, it releases its grip and floats away. Spiders can travel 100's of kilometres this way and as a result are often the first to colonise volcanically born islands.
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Jun 7 2012: This is why I hate spiders
Barry Palmer
Jun 6 2012: This is another fact that I find mind-boggling: Our human species has been around for at least 400,000 years. And by pure luck, I happen to be living in what is probably our most critical century. In the next several decades, we the have the opportunity to create a global civilization free from hunger, depravity and indignity. And we just might destroy our species; possibly by degrading our environment in some tiny, critical way, like destroying the bees.Jun 4 2012: All my life I've had experienced "out of body" stuff but didn't know it was unusual or natural until I grew up and shared viewpoints with others. When I was stabbed in the heart yrs ago, everything now came to a culmination so to speak, everything which came before was clarified. So I came to know that anger and war is caused by the person/s who made the thought or agreed with the thought already existing. And further, NOT being responsible for that thoughts creation, persistence and thus blames its creation or persistence in time on SOMEONE else. It all starts in the mind and it all ends in the mind. Yet I sense we are ALL within the mind of God and so God is NOT the author of these thoughts which bring about a condition of being separate from each other and the universe as a whole, it is and always has been US. We protect what we create and it applies to our thoughts good or bad. I do know God does not condemn, only we are capable of those type of judgements. We are spiritual in nature, and not a physical body and so we are eternal and changeless and nothing of this world can hurt us, to believe otherwise is seeing ourselves wrongly.
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Jun 6 2012: To be so positive of that could be considered seeing yourself wrongly as well.
Jun 7 2012: Hi Eric you know what I have experienced is self evident, yet when others have also experienced similar events it brings about a condition of understanding simply because there is greater reality or agreement established, there is greater interchange or communication about it established and there is greater affinity or less distance established. May you experience more
Jun 7 2012: To experience this first hand would be the only way to not be a skeptic of this. I'm sure many could understand that. I do consider this to be very possible but no one would ever know for sure unless they experience it themselves, mostly because it is very hard to research the science that could explain it.Jun 10 2012: When we are young we are taught the concept of right and wrong passionately and the lessons are re-inforced with punishment quite often. When we are wronged as children we appeal to our parents as they take the role of judges and we want justice to be served and punishment delivered. What is a paradox to the lesson of right and wrong and what I think is difficult to teach is a willing forgiveness. It means that we have to let go of the self concept that we are victims. To remain a victim all our lives is to remain broken, or to become a victim again over and over and to remain in the 'hurt child' ego state. It's very healthy to forgive. It heals. The bigger the injury the harder it is to forgive, but the theory is the same. Religion talks about this but I had to see it from the science of psychology. That's a beautiful story Robert.
Jun 11 2012: Hi Greg
You hit it right on the head, it IS all about forgiveness, I think it's the reason why we are here. To forgive ourselves our brother and God for the imagined wrongs we perceive they have done to us. I think that is the lesson "God is Love and being changeless and eternal, only that, thus Love does not condemn" we are here to learn.Jun 3 2012: I find it awe inspiring that with just a click of a mouse and a few stroke of a keyboard I can communicate with someone across the world. One person, a group, or a global audience is with in reach of listening to my ideas, even though I'm sitting in my home office, possibly in my PJ's. All of this is absolutely dumbfounding and it has only existed for a relatively short period of time. My grandparents never dreamed of this ability and in 30 years what we know about global communication will be completely different from how we view it today.
Jun 6 2012: I agree with James. I find myself continually awed by the technology of the last few decades, when I can recall the first time I used a Macintosh 64 computer, or the first cell phones, and even when we moved from casette tape to CD. Video recorders and boom boxes. Now we have internet, broadband, cellphones you can hook on your ear! We have skype so that we not only talk to people across continents, we can see them too! Things we took for granted, like letters and the postal service, are all but obsolete because of email. We do our banking online, we shop online, we talk to people online, we connect to this Global village in a way that our ancestors would not have been able to comprehend. Wow!
Jun 10 2012: I see that man has developed the same skills that made him successful as a caveman. Communication skills, hunting and gathering with the advent of the assembly line and now global marketing, job and role specialization of individuals to benefit the collective, tool invention, food production, healthcare, organized education and knowledge, and the benefits of symbiotic relationships.
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I've found myself to reread Discworld books a lot lately because a lot of the other stuff tends to be very depressing (I recently read Metro 2033, talk about a downer ending...) and I don't need that right now. I'm looking for the sort of books that give you a heartwarming feeling, hope for humanity and maybe some philosophical "life is great and has a purpose" arguments without being kitschy (like most in the genre "women's literature", yuck!). Of course there can be dark stuff, conflict and so on, but with a positive outlook, please. Most of what I read the past years made our world look like a hellhole.
So, does anyone have recommendations for books that do not make you wish to put a bullet to your head after finishing them?


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Attempting to put its recalls and unintended acceleration imbroglio into the rear-view mirror, Toyota called upon its deep reserves of cash, launching a bonanza of incentive spending in March which, naturally, obligated other carmakers to do the same. The subsidized leasing and zero-interest financing, combined with a hefty shot of fleet sales, juiced the market, driving new-car sales up 24% over the dismal March 2009 total. The March figures portend full-year new-car sales of 11.7 million, which is a lot better than last year, when industry watcher were speculating whether the year would end up below 10 million (it actually finished at 10.4 million). But step back a bit, and you realize that even 11.7 million is still a long way from the 16.8 million average annual sales the industry was enjoying in the decade ending in 2007.
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Greggs has launched an integrated marketing campaign designed to reinforce its value and freshness credentials.
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Well pushing Surface is also a major push for Windows 8 and Windows 8 Tablet (RT) so you can expect them to push the device well in excess of their supply. We won't know what the real numbers are like until we get them. There are a lot of things that need to be vetted about any sales figures. Such as:
How many have sold?
How many have been returned?
What is the defect rate?
Is the Surface cannibalizing tablets from other OEMs?
We will get all of these details with Q4 2012 and Q1 2013 numbers.
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You really can't stop yourself from commenting in every Surface thread, can you?
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How can it cannibalize something that doesn't exist ?
Posted 07 November 2012 - 17:25
Advertising =/= Sales
Ex. Microsoft's Kin
Not saying Surface is doing as poor as the Kin however.
Posted 07 November 2012 - 17:26
I think you have to look at things beyond the scope of Surface alone. Every Surface commercial is also publicity for Windows and the company as a whole.
You can't watch a single channel, open many magazines, listen to many radio stations or surf many websites without seeing an advertisement for the Surface. If Microsoft "only" planned on shipping 1-3 million this year, isn't this advertising a little crazy for those numbers?
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I think you have to look at things beyond the scope of Surface alone. It's also a great way to generate awareness about Windows 8 and Microsoft's new identity.


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01/19/2014 1:22pmEfforts to clean up the air along the Wasatch Front received a funding boost Thursday from the Utah Clean Air Partnership, including money to promote anti-idling, support the Clear the Air Challenge and develop an air quality video game.
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01/19/2014 9:00pmWith the availability of devices like electronic readers, one library director in North Logan said he and his staff hope to "bridge the gap between physical and digital," and other libraries also are working to fill that chasm.
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The department of Neurology and Psychiatry will host Joint Grand Rounds from 8-9 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 1, in Lecture Hall 1 in Schwitalla Hall. Gerald Hickson, M.D. ,will present "Communicating Unexpected Outcomes and Errors with Patients and their Families."
Gerald Hickson is the Joseph C. Ross Chair of Medical Education and Administration, Professor of Pediatrics and Associate Professor of Family and Health Systems Nursing at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. Hickson joined the faculty of the Department of Pediatrics in 1982 and served six years as Chief of Pediatric Outpatient Services for the Vanderbilt Clinic.
In 2003, Hickson was appointed associate dean for Clinical Affairs and director of the Center for Patient and Professional Advocacy. In 2005, he was named director of Clinical Risk and Loss Prevention and Chairman of the Self-Insurance Trust Committee. Currently, Hickson holds the additional roles of Assistant Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs and Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs.
Since 1990, Hickson's research has focused on why families choose to file suit, why certain physicians attract a disproportionate share of claims and how to identify and intervene with high-risk physicians. His work has resulted in over 100 peer review articles and chapters; the development of PARS(R) peer-review system and several educational initiatives to promote disclosure of medical errors and address the disruptive professional.
Hickson currently serves as the vice chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Patient Safety Foundation and has served as the chairman of the National Patient Safety Foundation Board of Governors. He served as chairperson of the Quality Care Committee for the National Association of Children's Hospitals and Related Institutions (NACHRI) and was a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics' Committee on Quality Improvement.
Hickson received an award for Excellence in Research and Teaching from the Ambulatory Pediatric Association, the National Healthcare Patient Advocacy award from the Society for Healthcare Consumer Advocacy and the Vanguard Award for the Advancement of Patient Safety from the Doctor's Company Foundation. In 2007, Hickson was named Joseph C. Ross Chair of Medical Education and Administration.
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Love of Corvettes knows no boundaries—or borders. That's why you see America's Only True Sports Car owned, collected, restored, and enjoyed on every continent on Earth (except Antarctica).
That includes Australia, where owning late-model Vettes (or anything less than 30 years old) has a special condition. Australian law dictates that, in order to be legally registered, all cars imported into the country must either be righthand drive when they land, or must be converted to RHD before they can get an Aussie title, registration, and plates. (Cars more than 30 years old are exempt, but are limited in how many miles they can be driven every year).
Les Kernya had wanted a C4 for years, and the need for a "mirror conversion" didn't stop him. "I wanted a C4 Corvette with a difference," he says from his Baulkham Hills, New South Wales, home. "It has a lot of aluminium in the engine bay and around the running gear, so it can be polished to give it a nice shine." And to this long-time car enthusiast (who'd been building and enjoying V-8–powered Yank and Aussie muscle for more than three decades), the L98 engine was a big selling point. "It's the last of the computerized engines that a home mechanic can fool around with."
After a two-year search, he found this one—imported into Australia by its second owner, who'd had it converted to RHD. At first he thought the Turquoise Metallic color was too loud for him. "I thought about it for a couple of weeks, then flew down to Geelong a couple of times to look at it again," he says. "I bought it, and I'm so glad I did."
Though there may not be many Vettes painted the same color as Kernya's C4 in Australia, Turquoise Metallic was one of the most popular '91 Corvette hues, with 1,621 coupes, convertibles, and ZR-1s painted in that 1991-only shade at Bowling Green Assembly. (Only Bright Red, White, and Black went on more '91 Vettes.)
Kernya's '91 was well-equipped with the RPO FX3 Selective Ride and Handling option, among others. But he didn't plan on keeping it all OEM. "I thought the engine needed more 'get up and go', but I didn't want to go crazy on it," he says. "I wanted the V-8 sound and a nice street car, so I ordered a bunch of stuff from TPIS in America." Thanks to TPIS, Kernya added a ZZ9 hydraulic roller camshaft to the L98, as well as a new intake manifold, headers, and higher-flowing "sport cat" converters. He also upgraded his C4's brakes, adding PBR's Grand Sport upgrade package. The rest of the car, except for the RHD, is fairly stock. It still has the new-for-'91, ZR-1–inspired bodywork (intact save for a larger air inlet in front to help the L98's breathing), and Kernya does plan on replacing the rubber suspension bushings before long.
In all, Kernya had the C4's engine apart for about four months. "A couple of times I got the feeling that there was no way that I'd be able to put it all back together," he recalls, "but several beers and lots of thinking later, I managed to." However, the now-modified L98 needed help, as its ECM was not happy with the changes from stock. A call to Steve Rosenfels at S.R. Performance in Ancliffe led to a re-programming and retuning of the '91's electronic brain.
It was also in need of a gearbox retune, after a Corvette Club of Australia track day at Wakefield Raceway (after these photos were taken). "My transmission only just lasted the day," says Kernya, "and my faithful car still managed to travel the 210 kilometers [130.49 miles] to get me home with the clutches slipping." A call to Global Auto Transmission in Blacktown led to a rebuild of the 700R4 automatic gearbox. "He took it all apart, showed me the standard rebuild parts, and laid out the upgrade parts," says Kernya of his consultation with the transmission expert. "One look at the difference, and I forked out the extra dough to beef it up." The upgrade also gave Kernya more-direct and quicker shifts.