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For two years, William Ziegler's technical engineering writing classes have partnered with the Greater Binghamton Airport (GBA) and McFarland-Johnson, an engineering consulting firm headquartered in Binghamton, to compete in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Design Competition. After taking home two first-place awards in 2009, this year's teams are intent on repeat success.
This year's FAA designs
Using Wind Energy to Power Runway Lights at Remote Airports
In locations without electricity, planes are unable to take off or land at night. But having a lighting system with a portable wind turbine — like the one designed by 2009 Senior Design undergraduates at the Watson School — at its hub would allow travel through 24 hours of darkness or a damaged electrical infrastructure.
Ziegler's computer science students calculated energy production from the turbine, power drawn by the runway lights and battery life to design their system. And by replacing incandescent lights with LED lights, they use less electricity. "It's not rocket science, but it's a concept that people don't think about," Ziegler says.
Using Panorama Photography and Digital Imaging Technology to Locate Foreign Object Debris on Airport Runways
Tools, runway-light fragments, pieces of blacktop or sheet metal can end up on runways for one reason or another, and that can be deadly if an airplane strikes one of them during takeoff or landing.
This team of Watson School students developed a robotic camera system that takes consecutive images across a span of the runway to create an aerial map of the environment. Successive sweeps take less than one minute and compare a particular location to its prior appearance. Through pixel comparison, the technology will identify what debris is on the runway and its exact location, enabling removal before an accident occurs.
"I've always been a firm believer in experiential learning," says Ziegler '76, associate professor of computer science. "It's a writing class, but the FAA Design Competition is the vehicle."
Students work side by side with industry experts to develop their 70-page design proposals in just 14 weeks — an assignment that provides important lessons in management structure, team decision-making and problem-solving.
And four of the students, including two student leaders, are immersed completely in the project through internships at McFarland-Johnson. "The role of project leader has really opened my eyes to the degree of communication and organization needed when working with such a large group of people," says Ahna Shaffer '10. "And working with the professionals at McFarland-Johnson has shown me what is expected when you enter the workforce."
The airport-related design challenges draw undergraduates and graduates from about 50 colleges and universities nationwide. But with Carl Beardsley, GBA commissioner of aviation, and Chad Nixon, vice president at McFarland-Johnson, on board — along with several team members from each organization — the undergrads are poised to succeed once again. "It takes everybody," Ziegler says. "If any of those pieces are gone, it doesn't happen." l
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While presenting their first-place proposal for geothermal radiant heating of the airfield apron (the area where passengers and cargo load) at a conference last year, Ziegler and his students were approached by an interested FAA executive. Since then, they've been working with McFarland-Johnson and the Greater Binghamton Airport to develop a plan to implement the system. "We'll be the first airport anywhere to heat the apron geothermally," Ziegler says. "We're getting closer and closer to receiving the funding, and I'm optimistic that we'll hear any day."
Project focus turns to University need
After three years immersed in a rigorous curriculum, engineering students taste the freedom they crave in Senior Design when, in just two semesters, they apply technical knowledge to actual engineering problems.
Corporate partners have long been the cornerstone of these projects, but in recent years, teams have successfully initiated projects with community or civic outcomes and for national competitions. Mechanical engineering student Craig Broccoli and his team took yet a third route, developing a project that melds their interest in alternative energy with a University need.
The team, which includes four mechanical and two electrical engineering students, aims to recycle one of the University's waste products — 300,000 gallons of waste vegetable oil generated annually by dining halls — into biodiesel that could be used to refuel the University's diesel vehicles and equipment.
"They haven't invented the process to create biodiesel," notes their advisor, Joe De Angelo '87, MS '90, PhD '01, an adjunct in the Watson School. "But they're taking a new approach to improve the system and give it an application specific to Binghamton."
Their system may look like other biodiesel systems — 55-gallon rubber drums, a pumping system and a filter system — but it's semi-automated, requiring limited user input as compared to similar systems on the market. "We will have circuitry controlling various mechanisms to speed up the process and eliminate the need for a user's attendance during the lengthy process," Broccoli explains. Additionally, their system will incorporate various alternative energy devices such as a solar-powered pump and a solar-still chemical-recovery system.
With the help of the Department of Physical Facilities, the team's project is literally coming together piece by piece. "One group gave the drums, another wood, another plumbing and another the metal," Broccoli says.
Ultimately the team hopes the project will lead to a trailer-sized system and possibly a community hub where local restaurants can drop off their waste oil for recycling. But regardless, from research to design to construction, the project has been a realistic application of all of those classroom hours. l
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The Officially Licensed Major League Gaming Pro Circuit Controller for Xbox 360 was designed with customization in mind. Just in time for MLG Anaheim, this episode of Tech Junkies goes in-depth with this innovative controller and find that it's perfect for competitive gamers on the go.
Within a few quick seconds, you can switch the controller to one of three styles, thanks to the controller's ProModule system. With it, you can freely move the D-Pad and analog sticks to make your own layout, or stick with a classic Xbox 360 or PS3 layout. You can also buy additional ProModule kits in different colors, tensions, lengths, and textures.
The Pro Circuit Controller also has easily swappable, magnetic top and side plates for even more individualism. Remember that since this controller is for tournaments, teams can use these customization options to emblazon their controllers with a logo.
For more information about the Officially Licensed Major League Gaming Pro Circuit Controller from MadCatz check after the break.
To make the controller as precise as ever, it's corded with a braided ProCable that screws in to the top of the controller for easy transport. But let's say you're used to the feel of a wireless controller, the MLG Pro Circuit controller comes with a pair of 35g weights so that you can control how heavy the pad feels in your hand.
Bottom Line: With the removable faceplates, ProModule Components, and cartridge based weights; this controller has everything you and your team will need to take your game to the next level.
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To watch, MLG will be broadcasting the tournament live via 11 streams at the MLG website. StarCraft 2 will be on six streams, four streams will be dedicated to League of Legends and one stream will feature fighting games. The standard definition streams will be free or you can purchase passes to watch the event ad-free in HD.
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The ancient Greeks believed that inspiration came from the Muses, goddesses who came down from Olympus to help common mortals create great works of art. But nowadays we know that creative minds get their ideas from pretty much whatever random shit comes their way.
This even goes for some of the most famous characters in recent pop culture history ...
5 Stan Lee's Laziness Led to the X-Men
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The hardest part of coming up with a new superhero is the origin story. You can't just have a guy in spider-themed pajamas shooting webs out of his palms with no explanation -- that would be ridiculous. There has to be this whole elaborate (and often grossly implausible) backstory about how he became who he is. And you have to put some thought into it, because you just know there will eventually be six or seven movie reboots covering that exact part of the story.
"Let's go realistic and gloomy for this one. Third time's a charm."
Well, the Patron Saint of Comics, Stan Lee, was all too aware of this when he was trying to develop a new team of heroes back in the early 1960s. How in the hell do you come up with a story for every one of these "X-Men" characters that explains how they all got different powers at once? So Lee said, and this is the actual quote:
"What if they were just born that way? Everybody knows there are mutations in real life. There are frogs that are born with five legs and so forth. I can get these guys to have any power I want. I'll just say, 'Well, they're mutants. They were born that way.' Nobody can argue with that!"
Sadly, Lee didn't go on to create Five-Legged Frog Man, but this is how we got basically all of the X-Men: characters with insane powers who have them just ... because.
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The spirit of not trying would live on in every X-movie.
From there, it was easy -- Angel got his wings because Marvel hadn't made a character who could fly yet; Iceman came about because Lee wanted a second Human Torch, so he built a power based on the opposite of fire. And to quote the man on Marvel Girl: "I hated the name Marvel Girl, but I couldn't think of anything better." OK, maybe it's better sometimes to not know how your favorite things are made.
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He did eventually come up with something better than Laser Dong.
Make no mistake -- these are some of the most beloved characters in comic book history, and it's specifically because of who they are. The X-Men are hated by the world purely because they were born different -- it's not hard to see why that resonated with fans. Who knows how things would have turned out if Lee had spent a whole weekend inventing various radioactive animals to bite each of these people.
4 A Simple (Yet Creepy) Misunderstanding Gave Us Hannibal Lecter
Lots of crime novels and movies are vaguely based on real-life events -- a writer reads about some psychopath with a burned face murdering teenagers and thinks, "What if that guy had knife hands?" But the story of how Thomas Harris, the author of the Hannibal Lecter novels, came up with his most famous character is much creepier ... and totally random.
In the 1960s, Harris was writing for a magazine and was sent to a Mexican prison to interview Dykes Askew Simmons, an American inmate on death row for triple murder. Presumably his first question was "What the hell were your parents thinking when they named you?" Simmons, however, was not the model for Hannibal Lecter -- he was nothing like him.
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"Well, for starters, I'm allergic to fava beans."
During the interview, Simmons told Harris a story about how he got shot by a prison guard, but his life was saved by a doctor. Wanting to get more details for his article, Harris asked to be taken to the doctor ("Dr. Salazar"), whom he naturally assumed was the prison's resident physician. If you're familiar with any of the Hannibal movies, you have some idea of what happened next.
No, that was when he left.
Rather than talk about the shooting, Salazar seemed more interested in manipulating Harris into psychoanalyzing Simmons, questioning the writer about Simmons' physical disfigurements, his victims, and "the nature of torment," a topic that rarely comes up outside of chats with murderers and truly disastrous first dates. Despite that, Harris admitted that the man had a "certain elegance" about him. After the meeting, Harris asked the prison warden how long Salazar had been working there, only to be told that the man was in fact an inmate -- one deemed too insane to ever leave. Salazar had been a surgeon who had used his skills to "package his victim in a surprisingly small box."
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He was "inappropriate use of sporting goods" away from serial killer bingo.
Years later, Harris would write Red Dragon and use the idea of an insane, murderous doctor with a knack for understanding other killers as the template for his liver-munching psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter. Of course, as often happens in real life, Salazar's actual story doesn't involve a spectacular escape that includes flaying guards alive. Yes, Salazar actually did end up getting out of jail, but he dedicated himself to providing medical assistance to the elderly until he died in 2009. Quick, somebody make a feel-good Silence of the Lambs sequel about that!


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I watched a cooking show on television a few days ago. It was … interesting. It was a competition, and the four contestants were charged with preparing food someone could actually eat, using totally weird ingredients.
Each section had its own basket of ingredients, and the contestants were required to make an appetizer from the first basket, a main dish from the next basket and, lastly, a dessert. Each section was timed, and after each section one cook was "chopped," or dismissed and the last cook standing at the end was the winner.
At the beginning, the contestants introduced themselves, with a great many comments bragging on their particular culinary training and special expertise and experience.
They had "judges" who sampled the foods and then gave their opinions, usually beginning with compliments and ending with put-downs.
I think the person who chose the ingredients the contestants had to use "in some way," as the moderator announced, had a sick sense of humor. It was pointed out there would be an emphasis on creativity using the ingredients, which was easily understood. Many of the ingredients they had to use I'd never heard of, and of the ones I had, the choices seemed strange.
For example, one appetizer basket contained watermelon, canned sardines, pepper jack cheese and zucchini. This is better than most of the baskets. At least I recognized those items — not like some ingredient lists which are challenging to say the least.
One episode included lamb fries. We've always eaten calf fries, but we were cattle people so apparently we missed out on the lamb testicles. Oh well…
This brings me to my cowboy father's food advice: Never eat something you can't pronounce. Almost always they have at least one ingredient I have no clue about, even after they show a picture of it. For example, did you know there are a gazillion kinds of cheese? I didn't either. There are many, many melons as well.
When the dessert round included catfish and cherry soda I excused myself and went outside. I'm sure those chefs showed a great deal of creativity with that particular combination.
The judging is … different. After all, the judges have watched the cooks as they worked, so that cuts down on questions like, "How did you fillet this fish?" but allows for comments like, "Did you realize you didn't clean your cutting board between ingredient preparations?"
Often, it seems these hot-shot chefs cut themselves. I wonder if they're nervous or simply in a hurry. Either way, plastic gloves don't quite make what they prepare after the cut seem appetizing.
I've noticed the older contestant chefs usually have an advantage. I think my dad said that the best, also: "Old age and treachery will overcome skill and youth every time."
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Logic Fail
You want to know why Republicans are possibly going to lose the White House this year, despite an environment in which the GOP nominee should be all but guaranteed victory? Republican voters have become incapable of comprehending the larger picture, and have swallowed media narratives hook, line, and sinker. The perfect distillation of this is evidenced on this thread on the blog Legal Insurrection. Professor William Jacobson is a Gingrich supporter, so he has reason to take down Ann Coulter's idiotic "Three Cheers for Romneycare" column. Of course Jacobson un-ironically accuses Coulter of deflection, a curious charge for someone who himself has twisted logic in order to boost Gingrich. But that's neither here nor there.
What really struck me was this exchange in the comment section.
Here is a Santorum supporter speaking up:
I admit that Mitt is sub-standard. What I dont get is (aside from the several here with clearly anti-Mormon bigotry) why sub-standard Newt should be the overwhelming favorite.
When I caucus next Tuesday (Colorado) – unless the Paulbots are out in force – I will vote for Santorum… because both Romney and Gingrich have huge non-conservative faults. This site has seemingly become dedicated to taking down Romney for the sake of Gingrich. I've yet to hear a persuasive argument why I should overlook Gingrich's equally glaring faults.
A very good question. Here is the response he received:
Oh for God's sake, Bain, I like Santorum too, but look at the numbers. He's just NOT going to rise.
This is the weaning, and Santorum doesn't cut it.
Love the guy, but move on.
It's like picking players on a team: You WEAN.
Well that's a really convincing argument. Shockingly, bains ain't buying it.
Let me see if I have this right…
You want me to not vote for a candidate that I like… in favor of a candidate that I don't like, so that the candidate that you hate will fail (well aside from Ron Paul).
The only argument in favor of Romney is his electability. His supporters really have nothing else to fall back on. Well, Gingrich supporters are really not much better. Their only argument is that Gingrich is the only person that can take down Romney. They seem willing to concede that Santorum is the superior candidate – he just can't win. Well, that's a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you deem that a candidate cannot win and refuse to vote for him, well guess what? He can't win.
It's a strange game that GOP voters are playing. They are basing their voting decisions not on who they deem to be the best candidate, but rather are voting for people who they think other people will be voting for. So I actually have to take back a bit of my opening premise. It's not that Republican voters aren't trying to look at the big picture, they're just doing a terrible job of it.
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Since I am a Pennsylvanian and my vote doesn't actually matter (our primary isn't until April. I suppose it makes sense to someone, somewhere that New York and Pennsylvania – pivotal to the existence of our nation – should be cut out of the primary system) I am resolved to vote for Santorum.
I will not be bullied and I certainly feel like the GOP Establishment has been acting like a playground bully in this Primary. Why can't they get it: I may vote for Romney over Obama but I don't like him. Forcing me to choose between Obama and Romney is irritating and, if the stakes weren't so damn high, I would probably vote for every position on the ballot except that of the presidency.
The only argument in favor of Romney is his electability. His supporters really have nothing else to fall back on.
Except that he has actually run private companies and a state government. The other three have done nothing of the kind.
I will not be bullied and I certainly feel like the GOP Establishment has been acting like a playground bully in this Primary.
Just out of curiousity, which individual is bullying you? Has the Governor of South Carolina or some editor at Commentary been sending you threatening letters?
As a wag on Ace put it, and I tweaked a bit:
"Romney 2012: Because He Appeals To Everyone Else But You."
"Just out of curiosity, which individual is bullying you? Has the Governor of South Carolina or some editor at Commentary been sending you threatening letters?"
Bullying comes in many forms.
Pulling out all stops to support the establishment candidate and to marginalize all others qualifies in my book. Dole, McCain, and now Romney – all establishment candidates who's "turn" it was to run for President.
We'll see if this round turns out differently.
If Romney gets the nomination (which seems likely at this point) I absolutely will not vote for him in the general election. Gingrich at least would be entertaining. Better to go down in flames with Gingrich or Santorum than "win" with Romney.
Obama has run the most powerful country in the world for 3 years. I suppose that makes him more "qualified" than Romney, who only ran a state for 4 years. Both did a crummy job in their respective positions, governing as big-government-health-care-mandating-religious-liberty-trampling-gun-grabbing-pro-abort liberals. But if the "executive experience" is all that matters, I suppose Obama wins on that account.
I think it is good for a president to have some executive experience, but I think its predictive value as to how someone will perform in the office is fairly low.
Here are our recent non-executives: John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Barack Obama. With the sorting of time, I suspect their performance will be rated thus: easy heat, wretched, wretched with some qualifications, satisfactory, wretched. I would rather not go there if I can avoid it, most particularly with regard to the policy dilemmas and potential emergencies the country will likely face in the coming six years.
Bullying comes in many forms.
You mean you get to define it?
Dole, McCain, and now Romney – all establishment candidates who's "turn" it was to run for President.
Mr. Dole's principal competitors were a newspaper columnist and a magazine publisher. Mr. McCain's were the Governor of Arkansas, the man you are condemning, and a crank obstetrician who has spent many years as an ineffectual member of Congress. Mr. Romney's are that same OBGYN and two lapsed members of Congress one of whom is an ethical train wreck with a fondness for technological and management fads. I am agreeable about Messrs. Santorum and Huckabee but I cannot blame people for taking contrary views of their candidacies.
The fact that states like Pennsylvania, Texas and others basically have little say in the process is astoundingly absurd.
The Republican National Committee could set aside two Saturdays in June for states to hold their caucuses and declare delegates selected at any other time and in any other manner to have no standing. Not holding my breath.
Also from PA, and also feel cheated out of the 'weaning" process. I really like Santorum, but am perfectly happy to vote for a shoe, if that shoe is less leftist than Obama.
I wish it were different, and honestly don't know why we handle the primaries this way. Why not move more of the primaries up to Februrary so we can be a part of the decision making? It is infuriating that by the time I get to vote, the process has eliminated all but one, including in local elections I might add. Local GOP chooses local candidates through a "committee" leaving the voter with only one nominee. That makes me believe thatthe GOP is self destructive.
Leftist is leftist. You're just negotiating how slowly you want to be strangled to death.
Maybe Trish is articulating my concerns better than I did.
My dissatisfaction is with the Primary process more generally.
Primaries are damned expensive and, if your state is anywhere other than at the beginning of the line for the presidential candidate primaries, damned near pointless. From a non-partisan viewpoint, one can reasonably question whether the State has any interest at all in who parties put forth as candidates.
The results are as you demonstrated – piss pore.
Dole, McCain, and Romney – all likely to get swept aside like so much chaff by their Democrat opponents while our best and brightest don't even get placed before the very rank-and-file that are likely to vote for them.
Intellectual exercise:
Supposing that Iowa and Pennsylvania were first. We'd probably be talking about Santorum as the likely candidate. Same pool of candidates, completely different result by simply shifting the order.
If the Primary system is supposed to "wean out" the candidates, it should approach something like a replicable process. Moving around the states though gives you different results so I think it fair to ask whether strength in the primaries demonstrate anything remotely like electability.
Agreed, but with the current choices, I see little difference.
Sadly, my opinion is that Rick can't do it- I watched the Dems KILL, completely demolish his senate re-election chances, and that was just for PA Senate. They are already accusing him in a column today in Phila of "using his 3 year old daughter" for sympathy votes. Trust me, they would become even more evil with time, if he were to get the nomination.
Until we slowly-one candidate at a time, change the culture in DC, we will never have a true conservative in the White House.
Funny, that Rick supposedly can't perform better than a stiff like Dullard Flip Rino, since Rasmussen just released a national poll showing Santorum performing just as well as Dullard (and far better than Gingrich) against Obama:
I don't know how much more evil Democrats can be given that they openly support (even encourage) the murder of the unborn and the filth of homosexual sodomy.
I like the comment above about the self fulfilling prophecy the best– not voting for him because he can't win and of course he can't win if we don't vote for him– or is that a catch 22 or
more ridingbicycles down the Kaibab trail — DON'T LOOK AT THE EDGE! or we will all go over!
If we say "Oh, the person I'd REALLY like to vote for is conservative candidate X, but I think he could probably never get elected" and then at the same time say "I don't like it, but I'd vote for moderate-to-liberal RINO stiff Y as long as he's one tick to the right of the Democrat", is it any wonder that every 4 years starts to look like the movie "Groundhog Day" with the same crappy scenario repeating itself over and over again?
If we concede that we believe the conservatives we want can't win, and admit right off the bat that we'll support whoever gets the nomination as long as he's marginally better than the Democrat alternative, aren't we conditioning the GOP to give us just that? If that's the signal we send to the party establishment, it's no wonder that the establishment lines up in lockstep behind the squishiest, least objectionable candidate available ("least objectionable" in the sense that they stand for nothing and are thus, in theory but not in actual practice, less likely to draw enemy fire).
Forget about complaining that the choice of candidates has already been winnowed down for us by the time our particular state's primary rolls around – we've already narrowed the choices from the get-go just by buying into the assumptions and narrative of the party establishment. And then we tell them we'll vote for their guy no matter what. We've been played for suckers time and again, and yet so many conservatives will line up on election day and pull the lever for yet another nominee who doesn't represent their interests. Rinse. Repeat.
See ya again in 4 years when we're once more crying after a measly 3 primaries and 1 caucus that our choices have already been made for us, and act "shocked, shocked" that yet another RINO squish is being shoved down our throats.
Mr. Anderson,
Your point is well made. What, then, do you suggest?
One choice is, of course, to write in candidates but that never seems to do much more than give some journalist hack a follow-up story. Third-party candidates can move things but, at least this time around, it looks like that would be a Ron Paul vote and that isn't something I'd broadcast after having done it.
Are you suggesting then that we'd be better to vote for the positions on the ballot other than President, accepting that we are putting the President one vote closer to landslide?
(I may actually be with you on that one. I'd have to think about it.)
Let me put this question out there: who would you have rather seen run / get the nomination? I know it's easy to complain about the starting quarterback, but who's the backup you'd rather see in the game?
Oh, yeah! Talk about unelectable!
Ron Paul is polling but few points below drone-killer Obama (of OBL and Guvmint Motors notoriety), and Paul can't pull 23 percent in a primary or caucus.
Paul – OK. I know that he's popular on this site, but I didn't think of him as "industry standard". Do you think that he would get the nomination under a fairer primary system?
that yet another RINO squish is being shoved down our throats.
'Another RINO squish'? I think it is a reasonable proposition that the succession of people who have won the Republican presidential nomination define the Republican type, not random combox denizens. You may not like what the dynamic of Republican politics serves you, but that is what it is. (And, much as you dislike it, the only people shoving things down your throat are Republican voters and campaign contributors).
Dole, McCain, and Romney – all likely to get swept aside like so much chaff by their Democrat opponents while our best and brightest don't even get placed before the very rank-and-file that are likely to vote for them.
I am tired of repeating myself on the unreasonableness of this sort of handicapping, so won't do that again. I might note that John McCain managed to garner 46% of the vote in a most challenging set of circumstances (the banking crisis, for one). Adlai Stevenson did not do this, Michael Dukakis managed it only with a much more agreeable milieux, and assessing Hubert Humphrey's capacity to do this requires counterfactual speculation.
And here are our executives:
Carter, Reagan, Clinton, Bush 43 from the same period. Carter I would rate as the worst President of the 20th century and third worst president overall. Reagan is a President worthy of Mount Rushmore if there were space. Clinton is probably the worst man who has sat in the Oval office. As President he was saved by the Republicans taking Congress in 94 and thus curbing the excesses in government demonstrated during his first two years. Bush 43 as a war president succeeded in so mishandling the war in Iraq, prior to the surge, that he set the stage for overwhelming Democrat victories in 2006 and 2008. His domestic compassionate conservatism was a disaster for the nation. He looks better now in comparison to Obama who is doing his best to wrest the title of worst president from James Buchanan, but that is small praise indeed.
Why you neglect Roosevelt, Truman, and Eisenhower, you do not say. All occupied the office during the era when general expectations of the services performed by the federal government were taking their current form. (And all were, on balance, accomplished in office above an beyond what we have seen since).
The troublesome part of comparative assessment of our executives (aside from having very few data points) is that no two face the same challenges. Also, two assessors have the same notion of what ends it is desirable to achieve.
I find your description of all of these people awfully florid. Mr. Carter followed bad monetary policy, taking advice from the wrong economists. Decisions he took during the period running from August 1978 to February 1979 vis-a-vis the political crisis in Iran turned out very badly, but it is conceivable that had we instigated a military coup in Iran in January of 1979 it might not have turned out better. One can certainly conceive of some alternatives to his response to the seizure of the American Embassy in Tehran, though it would have been difficult to prevent ABC News turning an attempt at extortion by the Iranian government into a concatenation of human interest stories.
With regard to B. Clinton, please note that he was willing and able to cut deals with the political opposition. The current incumbent is not (and had never had to do so before).
Contriving an expansion of Medicare while arranging simultaneously for an income tax cut (the formal the principal manifestation of 'compassionate conservatism', the latter having nothing to do with it) was poor policy and created problems and unnecessary problems. There is a difference between 'problems' and 'catastrophe'. The rest of what went under the heading of 'compassionate conservatism' was small beer.
As for the war in Iraq, the military you have has a skill set and an institutional culture. Yes, the war was mishandled for four years. I cannot help but note that the change in strategy which was so successful was adopted over the objections of much of the top brass.
Please note, I've not claimed that executives are protected from poor policy choices. Nor is an executive protected from being a scuzzy human being. They are partially protected from failures of governance which arrive from not having governed. Gerald Ford was the most able of our non-executive leaders; his admiring press secretary freely admitted after he left office that the man was on a learning curve as an administrator and that this did cause problems. John Roche, late of the Fletcher School at Tufts and an admiring aide to Lyndon Johnson, had similar tales to tell.
As for Mr. Reagan, I am not much for the 'civil religion' business. Politicians should be appreciated, but not turned into icons. In Mr. Reagan's case, when he was determined not to acknowledge something, he did not. If you put him on Mount Rushmore, you need to select an expression. I might suggest the look he had on his face when David Stockman was trying and failing to explain to him what the implications of his stated preferences were as regards public sector borrowing.
"I think it is a reasonable proposition that the succession of people who have won the Republican presidential nomination define the Republican type, not random combox denizens."
Since I am not a Republican and have absolute no desire to be one, Art, I really couldn't say.
All I know is that in November of even years I'm told I have to support candidates whose priorities quite often are not my own or risk being responsible for the whole world going to hell in a handbasket. And what I'm saying is that I'm not playing that game anymore, especially when the person being shoved down my throat … YES … shoved down my throat is the likes of frickin' Dullard Flip Rino, the big-government, health-care-mandating, religious-liberty-trampling, Social-Security-demagoging, Mediscaring, gun-grabbing, Reagan/Bush-repudiating, pro-abortion liberal.
If THAT, as you say, "defines the Republican type", then I'm glad to know it once and for all so that I can say "To hell with 'em" and gladly cast my vote elsewhere.
(It should be noted, however that even as an independent I was out there for many years as a conservative and a pro-life activist working to elect Republicans when "Mr. Electable" was a self-described "progressive independent" distancing himself from "Reagan/Bush" and doing his damndest to undercut conservatives and Republicans and running to Ted Kennedy's left. See, even as an independent, I was a better "Republican" than Mitt Romney. But now that I know he's truer to the "type", I'll gladly cede the ground so many conservatives gave their sweat and tears fighting for to the "new breed" – actually, I suppose they're more like the old WASPy breed – of Republican.)
Since I am not a Republican and have absolute no desire to be one, Art, I really couldn't say.
That's fine. It is odd for a non-Republican to be complaining about "RINOs".
All I know is that in November of even years I'm told I have to support candidates whose priorities quite often are not my own or risk being responsible for the whole world going to hell in a handbasket. And what I'm saying is that I'm not playing that game anymore, especially when the person being shoved down my throat … YES … shoved down my throat is the likes of frickin' Dullard Flip Rino, the big-government, health-care-mandating, religious-liberty-trampling, Social-Security-demagoging, Mediscaring, gun-grabbing, Reagan/Bush-repudiating, pro-abortion liberal.
Something Phyllis Schlafly said a while back comparing our political parties to multi-party systems: our voters are less likely to have a satisfying option, but more of the winners' program will be enacted. It is a trade-off.
Living here in New York, I have seen what it looks like to have party barons in the state legislature and amongst the $2,000 a plate dinner crowd put the screws to local county chairmen and in turn to seen what it looks like when county chairmen disregard their electorate. The former happened in a special election for Congress in 2009 and the latter happened last year in an election in that same district. That is not what you are experiencing.
"It is odd for a non-Republican to be complaining about "RINOs".
Except when it's not. Happens all the time among conservatives, and I have a feeling you know that. The term, inartful as it is, is shorthand for more liberal Republicans or for Republicans with records one might associate with Democrats. Again, you know that, but you'd like to pretend that it means something it doesn't by giving it a literal interpretation. What is odd that certain folks would suddenly become sticklers for who may appropriately invoke the term "RINO".
But, again, as someone who, notwithstanding my political independence, has tended to vote for Republicans, probably with more frequency than your chosen candidate ever has, I feel perfectly unconstrained in my using the term "RINO". Thank you very much.
Except when it's not. Happens all the time among conservatives
It still does not make any sense.
The term, inartful as it is, is shorthand for more liberal Republicans or for Republicans with records one might associate with Democrats.
You are referring to a political tendency that dissipated almost completely fifteen years ago. The National Journal a few years back published a rank-ordering of all members of the House of Representatives. Democratic and Republican Representatives were sorted into two neat piles, with a small interstitial zone in between with fewer than ten members. The Republican in the House coded the most liberal was a man from Connecticut named Christopher Shays who occupied a place almost precisely at the midpoint.
Since I have seen the term used repeatedly to describe the Republican presidential nominee, I tend to think it is a nonsense term. It is also a decidedly idiosyncratic use of political terminology, and one that does not communicate well at all, to use the term 'liberal' to describe Messrs. McCain, Bush-fils, Dole, or Bush-pere. They have all suffered from inertia and lack of imagination in the pursuit of domestic initiatives. That is regrettable, but our institutional set-up being what it is, you cannot accomplish much anyway.
Some suggest – and I think with merit – that a consolidated schedule would hurt underfunded candidates even more.
What if it breaks the back of the candidate-centered contest entirely? You might restore an element of deliberation and peer review to the process, with delegations largely composed of uncommitted local elected officials, wheelhorses, and grandees. Consider that in 1968 the place and show candidates entered between them one primary. The runner-up in 1964 entered no primaries and his candidacy lasted a matter of weeks.
Has a head-and-shoulders better candidate ever lost the nomination in the modern era? You could make an argument that none of the strongest Dems even ran in 1992. Some Republicans would say that the strongest candidate lost the nomination in 1976, and some Democrats would say the same thing for their party in 2008. But I don't think you can make a Keanu Reeves winning an Oscar kind of argument that the system picks the worst candidates. That is to say, if only Keanu, Stallone, and Ashton Kutcher made movies last year, the Academy can't be blamed for their choice.
OK. I'll bite Pinky. What in tarnation is an "head-and-shoulder better candidate?"
I'm hearing some folks say here that it is all about electability. Sure, we'd like a candidate who is actually a fiscal conservative. Sure, we'd like a bloke who is actually a social conservative. But, we'll settle for a candidate who is one or the other, or even neither in a pinch, if she or he has a better chance at winning.
I'm hearing others say (and I'm one of them) that it is all about consistency. We will only vote for someone who seems wishy-washy about our conservative ideals if left with no alternative. Then, we'll begrudgingly vote for them.
I'm hearing other voices (I'm in this camp too, I think) that it is all about our individual hot-button issues. We will vote for someone that hits the right notes on our issues even if they aren't conservative in other ways.
The problem with two and three, of course, is that it really is betraying the good because it isn't perfect which doesn't make a lot of sense. The first one seems to be more problematic though in that it assumes that we have any idea what "electable" is. It seems to me that we aren't all that good at prognosticating. I, for example, didn't see the Obama train coming until about two months before the 2008 convention. I was absolutely sure that Clinton would take the nomination. Palin blinded me to McCain's can't win attitude until about September so I didn't see that coming either.
I am honestly looking for an alternative approach here. I'm not arguing for the sake of arguing, I really do want a way out of this intellectual morass.
Do I vote for Romney in November, a guy that doesn't seem to care a wiff about the social cares that I care deeply about, who seems out of touch with my working class roots, whose business experience is limited to big finance and whose executive experience is limited to running Utah, whose electability mantle rests entirely on establishment decree?
Do I "throw away" my vote by writing in Santorum because his social conservative creds are spotless and his family life admirable?
What do you suggest?
write in Santorum– maybe others will too… wouldn't that give the commentators something new to say– "won by a write in landslide"! He is the best choice.


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Yes, you are seeing that right - this is a 3,000 piece puzzle!
We love puzzles, even our daughter loves them. She's 12 and just the other day did a 500 piece puzzle herself on one of those hot days where keeping movement to a minimum is a good thing.
We brought a long folding table to the cabin specifically for doing puzzles, but this puzzle was even too big for the table! However, it just so happened that we had this enormous box left over from our new patio set:
and the husband was able to cut it up and come up with a piece big enough to hold the puzzle. Which is great, but I keep having this fear that a big gust of wind is going to come in through the window and swoop under that piece of cardboard and fling that puzzle and it's 3,000 pieces not just off the table, but over the edge of our loft, to rain down into our couch. (Too bad there are no top insurance providers for puzzles, ha ha...) Well, hopefully that won't happen. :-P
Do you like puzzles? Have you ever done a 3,000 piece puzzle? Do you glue and save your puzzles when you're done? (We never do - we take them apart and put them back in the box to do again some other time.)
The end.
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Heflin Church will hold a Red Cross blood drive Sept. 22, 1–6 p.m., in the fellowship hall. The drive is in memory of Adrian "Hotdog" Lanning, Pastor Philip R. Morris' son-in-law, who died suddenly two years ago Sept. 22 at age 32. To donate, you must be 17 years old with a picture ID. A health screening will be available to determine if you are able to give. For information call 256-463-2576 or visit www.heflinbaptist.org.


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RUSH: This is Charles in Las Vegas. Charles, thank you for waiting. Great to have you here. Hello.
CALLER: (garbled audio throughout) Hey, Rush, thanks for taking my call. I heard you the first time in 1989 driving from Lake City to my plane in Florida. I fell in love with your voice and more importantly, with the content that comes out of your mouth. So, yeah, I was telling Snerdley that you have low-information voters, but you also have high-disinformation voters.
RUSH: Wait a minute. You say low-information voters and high-information voters?
CALLER: Yeah, the high-disinformation voters are the one that had what the Soviets used to call "disinformacia," disinformation, which is false information that comes from the Soviets to the populations, and that disinformation was spread out throughout the Soviet empire. (audio glitch) Ronald Reagan used to say that it's not that liberals are ignorant. It's that they know a lot of things, but they know a lot of things that are not so. So all this stuff about global warming, about how the Democrats twisted truth, is what the untrust used to call the Stalinist School.
RUSH: Charles, I'm having a real hard time, here. It's almost impossible to understand you. It's not your fault. It's my hearing. I'm having trouble deciphering what you're saying 'cause of my hearing loss. Your phone sounds very distorted, and I'm just not making out your words. But Snerdley has up here that you wanted to talk about, you have a mixture of low-information voters and high-disinformation voters who get the wrong information on stories from the media, right? That's basically your point? So what is your point after that?
CALLER: Well, the point is you have these two classes of voters. The one says that doctors (unintelligible) headed, those are the high-information voter. They have information, but the information they have about the Republicans, about what you say is not right information; it's information that has been falsified. It's what Leon Trotsky used to call the Stalinist School of Falsification. In socialism, it's a crime against humanity (unintelligible)
RUSH: All right. Charles, I hope the audience understood, because I didn't. It's not your fault. It's my hearing.
RUSH: Okay, folks, you know, I sit here, I never want to be in a situation where I don't understand what somebody's saying because of my hearing. And that's where I was with the last caller, so I have asked staff who had no trouble understanding his words what he was saying. Here's the consensus, and the opinions here run the gamut, but we have a consensus. His point was, in addition to the low-information voters, we have an added element to the problem. We have otherwise thought to be intelligent so-called high-information voters, smart people, who were disseminating BS to people, to the low-information voter. And so the low-information voter is not simply low-information because the person is low-information. He's low-information because of what he's being fed by the high-information people that are spreading a bunch of BS.
His example after Trotsky and Stalin was the global warming crowd. You have a bunch of people who are scientists, they're thought to be -- and this is part of the game, by the way -- brilliant, science, uncorrupted by politics. That's what everybody thinks and it's not true, but they think it is. So these people in their white coats, they run around, they talk about all this so-called science in global warming. The low-information people lap it up without questioning it because they don't question the credibility of these so-called high-information people who are simply engaging in a massive disinformation campaign. Economists do it. Now, this assumes that the high-information people know they're lying.
Like the global warming crowd, the true believer of science global warming crowd. It's a good question. Do they really believe this stuff, or are they knowingly engaged in a disinformation campaign? Like the professor at Penn State, Michael Mann, famous for the hockey stick graph, which everybody accepted as incontrovertible proof of warming since the Middle Ages, or explained the Middle Ages warming period and warming sense. So the question is, is this guy knowingly full of it and is simply motivated by politics, or does he believe his own stuff? The same with economists. You know, the anti-capitalist economists. There's never yet been a successful socialist economy, and yet there are gobs and gobs of socialist economists who are constantly singing its praises, and they are singing these praises to low-information voters who are just eating it all up without questioning it because they don't question the credibility of these economists or scientists.
His point is you have a lot of accredited high-information people who may not be. I mean a global warming advocate is as wrong as anybody could be about anything, folks. It's a hoax. There is no manmade global warming. It has been thoroughly debunked. The fact that it's a hoax has been proven, by them. E-mails that were uncovered at East Anglia University in Great Britain show that they worked together to perpetuate the hoax, that they lied about data, that they eliminate data that contradicted their political belief. So you'd have to assume from that that they are political advocates disguised as scientists who are purposely engaging in misinformation. I think that was his point. I think that was the point he was trying to convey. And it would be easy for me to sit here and say, "I'm sorry, you figure it out. I couldn't understand it."
I'm a man of pure context, and I was trying to understand him within the realm, okay, something happened on the program today that's made him call. What is it? Something has inspired him. What was said earlier that he's reacting to? And that's what I couldn't figure out. So I was asking while I'm trying to listen to him, is this guy just calling off the wall, bouncing off nothing, or is he bouncing off something said earlier? So I was unable to attach a context to what he was saying. When you had written up there in the description of the call you have low-information, high-information, I thought that meant he was gonna talk about the kind of people listening to this program. It's not what he was talking about at all. He was talking about the kind of people who are in the world.
So I was all off-base trying to attach a context. This is what people that can't hear have to do. When you can't understand what somebody's saying, you try any number of ways to translate it to yourself, and that's what I was having trouble doing. I just could not relate what he was saying to anything that had happened. So then he was off the wall and I had to do my own inquiry in the break, say, "Okay, what was he talking about?" I think now, having asked some people, that was basically it, and it's a good point, by the way. It's not just the low-information people that are the challenge. It's also the so-called -- we call 'em high-information by virtue of reputation. But in truth, are they high-information, or are they simply disinformation specialists? And he was right. I mean, the Soviets and other communist countries are absolutely specialists at this.
But I guess he was distinguishing between uninformed people versus deliberate liars, and a lot that passes for low-information is actually disinformation. He was basically saying our work is doubly cut out for us because it's not just that we're dealing with people that aren't able to understand things. It's that they're also being lied to by people who they think have automatic credibility.


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Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences
California State University, Chico
1205 W. 7th St.
Chico, CA 95929-0205
Contact info:
Office: Physical Science Building (PHSC), room 117, 530-898-6337
Geoscience Dept office: PHSC 217, 530-898-5262
E-mail: sdmayor at csuchico dot edu or sdmayor at gmail dot com
Note: I can often be found in PHSC 128 (530-898-3632).
Fall 2016:
GEOS 250, Computer Applications in the Geosciences
Fall 2016:
GEOS 300, Earth System Science
Fall 2016:
GEOS 480, Department Seminar Series
Fall 2016:
GEOS 490, Seminar in the Geosciences: Renewable Energy and the Environment
Spring 2016:
GEOS 502, Air Pollution Meteorology
Spring 2016:
GEOS 120, Weather
Fall 2015:
GEOS 501, Dynamic Meteorology
Fall 2015:
GEOS 490, Seminar in the Geosciences: Renewable Energy and the Environment
Fall 2015:
GEOS 120, Weather
Spring 2015:
GEOS 120, Weather
Spring 2015:
GEOS 400, Physical Meteorology
Fall 2014:
GEOS 321, Introduction to Meteorology
Fall 2014:
GEOS 490, Seminar in the Geosciences: Renewable Energy and the Environment
Spring 2014:
GEOS 120, Weather
Spring 2014:
GEOS 370, Energy and the Human Environment
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GEOS 490, Seminar in the Geosciences: Renewable Energy and the Environment
Fall 2012:
GEOS 400, Physical Meteorology
Spring 2012:
GEOS 501, Dynamic Meteorology
Spring 2012:
GEOS 619, Advanced Topics in Meteorology
Fall 2011:
GEOS 517, The Atmospheric Environment
Dr. Mayor conducts research and development in the areas of atmospheric lidar and boundary layer meteorology. He maintains and uses the
Raman-shifted Eye-safe Aerosol Lidar (REAL)
at Chico State and is principal investigator of several grants from the National Science Foundation's Physical and Dynamic Meteorology program. He is an AMS board certified consulting meteorologist.
Dr. Mayor holds BS and MS degrees in meteorology and a PhD in atmospheric and oceanic sciences from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was post-doctoral fellow in the Advanced Studies Program of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and an atmospheric scientist in NCAR's Earth Observing Laboratory (EOL) before coming to Chico in 2008.
Publications (HTML)
Related webpages:
Dr. Anna Petrova-Mayor's webpage
Current Chico Weather (from Western Weather Group)
California State University Chico REAL website
University of Wisconsin-Madison Lidar Group
26th International Laser Radar Conference: 25-29 June 2012, Porto Heli, Greece.
25th International Laser Radar Conference: 5-9 July 2010, St. Petersburg, Russia.
24th International Laser Radar Conference: 23-27 June 2008, Boulder, Colorado.
23rd International Laser Radar Conference: 24-28 July 2006, Nara, Japan.
This page updated 26 August 2012.


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Championships, events, culture, births, and deaths that occurred in 1867.
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- Richard Hershberger: "Did New York Steal the Championship of 1867 from Philadelphia?", in Morris Levin, ed.: From Swampoodle to South Philly: Baseball in Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley, The National Pastime, SABR, 2013, pp. 22-27.


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Celebrating Dr. King's Legacy
On February 5, 1964, Drew University proudly hosted Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as a convocation speaker. Dr. King's connection with Drew University was through Dr. George D. Kelsey, Professor of Christian Ethics. Prior to teaching at Drew, Kelsey taught at Morehouse College where he became a mentor to Martin Luther King, Jr., then a student, and who has credited Kelsey for his motivation to become a preacher. At the time of the event, Dr. King had been recently selected as Time magazine's "Man of the Year" and shared his "An American Dream" speech to over 5,000 attendees. A student reporter for the Drew Acorn noted, "He is unimposing, seems quite ordinary, but, when he speaks, people listen. They tend to forget all else."
Listen to Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "American Dream" speech:
- Pres. Oxnam's Introduction – 7:04
- "American Dream" Part 1 – 20:17
- "American Dream" Part 2 – 16:09
- "American Dream" Part 3 – 14:07
More information and media regarding Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s visit to the Drew University campus is available through the University Archives.


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2012 Ford Focus Electric is Almost Maintenance-Free
When most people think of the benefits of an electric car, the first thing that comes to mind might be the savings on fuel costs or the lack of exhaust fumes. Ford wants you to know that when it comes to the 2012 Ford Focus Electric, there are over 25 conventional car parts that will never require maintenance or replacement, because they don't exist.
Thanks to the fully electric drivetrain a multitude of engine accessories, fluids, hoses, belts and spark plugs that normally need replacement within 10 years or 150,000 miles are made irrelevant. Besides saving money in the long run, this means far less time spent on trips to the mechanic and routine maintenance.
Chevy Cruze Eco Delivers Over 40 MPG
Looking for a car that gets great fuel mileage and doesn't require heavy, expensive batteries? Chevrolet delivers with the Cruze Eco, adding features to its standard Cruze model that greatly improve efficiency without compromising driveability. The EPA rates this roomy four-door compact at a whopping 42 miles per gallon highway, however road tests have proven that the Cruze Eco is capable of much better.
So what did Chevy do to push this car close to 50 MPG without converting it into a hybrid? First of all, weight reduction saves fuel. Changes to the wheels and elsewhere on the car were instrumental in shaving off pounds.
ScanGauge II Helps Drivers Conserve
You can read as much as you want about driving methods that will result in better fuel efficiency, but putting them into practice is next to impossible without proper feedback. The ScanGauge II effectively solves that problem by giving the driver real-time data as well as post-trip data, letting the driver adjust his or her driving methods on the fly to maximize fuel efficiency.
The ScanGauge II is an energy monitoring device that will mount on the dashboard of most vehicles. As you can see in the picture (which must be in a car involved in a high speed chase), the ScanGauge II shows you your fuel economy (MPG), vehicle speed, engine speed (RPM) and battery voltage. It also shows
Axon Car to get 100 MPG
These green car designs never cease to surprise me! This one from British auto maker Axon Automotive weighs in at a mere 426 kg or about 940 lbs. Despite the large movement toward electric motors, Axon's as yet unnamed vehicle will run on gasoline only. This is fine as long as the car lives up to Axon's claim that it will get up to 100 miles per gallon.
The chassis and body panels are made entirely of carbon-fiber and weighs about 400 kg. The 500cc two cylinder engine, amazingly, only weighs 26 kg. In fact, because of its size, if you have engine trouble you can send it in to have its black box
Volkswagen Reveals Golf BlueMotion
The latest concept incarnation of Volkswagen's Golf TDI achieves an impressive 62 mpg. In addition, carbon dioxide emissions are limited to just 99 g/km, less than a Toyota Prius. The vehicle will likely be sold in the UK starting in the middle of 2009. This level of efficiency is achieved with a 1.6-liter TDI diesel engine.
The engine generates 105 horsepower and brings the car from 0 to 60 in 11 seconds. In addition to the smaller engine, mileage in this model has been increased with changes to the transmission, low rolling resistance tires, and improved aerodynamics.
Introducing the Kelley Green Book
Kelley Blue Book (KBB) has started a green section to provide information on the environmental impact of new and used cars. The focus is on current and upcoming alternative fuels, hybrids, and upcoming electric cars. KBB Green has also released its list of the top ten new green cars.
At the top of the list is the Toyota Prius, Honda Civic Hybrid, Smart ForTwo, and the Nissan Altima Hybrid. One feature allows users to calculate when buying a vehicle with a higher price and better gas mileage will pay off in savings. KBB is known as one of the foremost automotive authorities and this move signals
SEV Solar Module Increases Prius' Fuel Economy
Solar Electric Vehicles (SEV) has developed a solar module for the 2004 - 2006 Toyota Prius that increases its already great fuel economy. Manufactured with mono-crystalline photovoltaic cells, the module is durable, has no moving parts and is basically maintenance free.
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Lightning Accepting Deposits for 2009 Delivery
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Hyundai to Begin Mass Producing Hybrids
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Das Kannst Du Dir In Den Wind Schreiben
- Artists Joalz, Gavin Russom, Knight Skyy
- Release Date 2012-03-01
- Labels NTROP Recordings
- Catalog NTROP020
Gavin Russom first appeared at Ntrop recordings with a remix work to Felizol & The Boy's vinyl release, Ntrop018.
Having compose & produce stunning releases for the notorious Dfa label, Gavin kicks of his 'Knigh Skyy' moniker to Ntrop with a magnificent Sci-fi Acid Marathon. On the flip side Joalz recomposing 'Das Kannst.." to an Ebm rock song.


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Zappa's Widow Has No Trademark Rights in Germany
When Frank Zappa's wife Gail found out about a music festival in Germany that honors her late husband, she wasn't happy about the name that was chosen: Zappanale. So she sued, alleging European Union trademark infringement on behalf of Zappa's estate. But the Higher Regional Court in Dusseldorf recently ruled that even though the Zappa […]
USPTO and Google Make Online Patent Research Easier — and Free
Searching for patent and trademark information online just got a lot easier — and less expensive too. The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has agreed to make available nearly 10 terabytes of data that had previously been off limits, restricted, or available only through paying fees, free online through a search feature at […]
Google Sued by Photographers and Graphic Artists
As Google awaits word on whether its proposed $125 million settlement with authors and publishers over Google Book Search will be approved by a judge, the search engine giant has been slapped with another class action lawsuit. This time the plaintiffs are photographers and graphic artists who claim that the scanned book images of Google Book Search violate their copyrights.
FCC's "Net Neutrality" Shot Down by Appellate Court
The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has struck down a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) order to Comcast requiring so-called "net neutrality," the equal treatment of all Internet content by service providers.
Electronic Communications Privacy Act Under Attack – By Just About Everyone
Finally something Google, Microsoft, AOL, the ACLU, Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), and Americans for Tax Reform can agree on! These companies, privacy advocates, and thinktanks are all members of the Digital Due Process coalition, which is pushing for Congress to overhaul the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) enacted in 1986, well before the Internet surge; […]