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Google's GeoEye-1 Satellite

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:53:04 GMT

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clipper's remarks: GeoEye Inc successfully launched its new GeoEye-1 satellite, which will provide Google Earth users and others the highest-resolution commercial color satellite imagery on the market.

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Google Earth gets a new space eye

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About the GeoEye-1 Satellite

The GeoEye-1 Satellite sensor was developed by GeoEye and features the most sophisticated technology ever used in a commercial remote sensing system.

GeoEye-1 is capable of acquiring image data at 0.41 meter panchromatic (B&W) and 1.65 meter multispectral resolution. It also features a revisit time of less than three days, as well as the ability to locate an object within just three meters of its physical location.

This newly developed sensor is optimized for large projects, as it can collect over 350,000 square kilometers of pan-sharpened multispectral satellite imagery every day.

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GeoEye-1 Satellite Images

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» About the GeoEye-1 Satellite Sensor
» Download the High Resolution Image
» More Images from GeoEye-1

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Launch of the GeoEye-1 satellite aboard a Delta II Rocket

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Breaking: Satellite for Google Earth Blasts off in Californi

an unedited animation provided by GeoEye of the satellite and the means by which it scans images of earth.

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Tags: google, geoeye, satellite, google earth, technology

Scenic Splendor of our World

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 05:26:51 GMT

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Can Genetic Information Be Controlled By Light?

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:33:15 GMT

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It has been known for many years that the individual bases that code the genetic information contained in DNA show a high degree of photostability, as the energy that they take up from UV radiation is immediately released again. Surprisingly, however, it is found that in DNA, which consists of many bases, those mechanisms are ineffective or only partially effective. It seems that the deactivation of UV-excited DNA molecules must instead occur by some completely different mechanisms specific to DNA, which are not yet understood.

Clip Source: www.sciencedaily.com

ScienceDaily (Oct. 10, 2008) — DNA, the molecule that acts as the carrier of genetic information in all forms of life, is highly resistant against alteration by ultraviolet light, but understanding the mechanism for its photostability presents some puzzling problems. A key aspect is the interaction between the four chemical bases that make up the DNA molecule. Researchers at Kiel University have succeeded in showing that DNA strands differ in their light sensitivity depending on their base sequences.

Tags: dna, genetics, light, photostability, science

Who is Left?

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 15:14:25 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "This touches directly on the question of what, beyond the platitudes of unity, hope, and change, Obama himself believes in. His voting record is one indication. Another is his intellectual evolution."

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The Senate has a particularly rich tradition of such bipartisanship, but Obama appears never to have participated in it. On the contrary: according to Congressional Quarterly, which measures how often each member votes in accordance with or at variance from the majority of his own party, Obama has compiled one of the most partisan of all voting records.

the average Senator voted with his own party 84 percent of the time; Obama voted with his party 96 percent of the time. In the prior two years, his number was 95 percent, making him the fourth most partisan member of the Senate.

according to the National Journal, Obama’s voting record made him “the most liberal Senator.”

according to Americans for Democratic Action (ADA), the dean of liberal advocacy groups, Obama voted “right” 90 percent of the time.

If we discount his absences, Obama voted to ADA’s approval more than 98 percent of the time.

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Banking on Dodd - Hardly

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:27:49 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I swear these lousy Democrats are slicker than Gotti ever was - nothing, absolutely nothing sticks to the Teflon Dodd

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Banking on Dodd

Ralph Nader blames "The Senator from Wall Street" for the financial mess we're in

Chris Dodd, the populist hero? Chris Dodd, the protector of taxpayers? Chris Dodd, the Sheriff of Wall Street? Puh-leeze.

How about, Chris Dodd the guy who helped steer us into this mess in the first place? Or, Chris Dodd the guy who spent a career passing laws friendly to banks and taking gobs of their money whenever election time rolled around?

Connecticut's senior senator enjoyed a moment of collective amnesia last week when pundits and the press gushed all over him for taking the Bush Administration's sucky, three-page bailout package and making it a little less sucky. A Hartford Courant headline blared "He Shined in Bailout Talks." The story hailed Dodd's "finest hour."

Tags: economy, dodd

Introducing Joe Biden

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 02:44:57 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Funny.

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Fannie/Freddie Trouble Seen 9 Yrs Ago

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 03:16:31 GMT

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clipper's remarks: In addition, banks, thrift institutions and mortgage companies have been pressing Fannie Mae to help them make more loans to so-called subprime borrowers. These borrowers whose incomes, credit ratings and savings are not good enough to qualify for conventional loans, can only get loans from finance companies that charge much higher interest rates -- anywhere from three to four percentage points higher than conventional loans.

''Fannie Mae has expanded home ownership for millions of families in the 1990's by reducing down payment requirements,'' said Franklin D. Raines, Fannie Mae's chairman and chief executive officer. ''Yet there remain too many borrowers whose credit is just a notch below what our underwriting has required who have been relegated to paying significantly higher mortgage rates in the so-called subprime market.''

Demographic information on these borrowers is sketchy. But at least one study indicates that 18 percent of the loans in the subprime market went to black

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Fannie Mae Eases Credit To Aid Mortgage Lending

By STEVEN A. HOLMES

Published: September 30, 1999

In a move that could help increase home ownership rates among minorities and low-income consumers, the Fannie Mae Corporation is easing the credit requirements on loans that it will purchase from banks and other lenders.

The action, which will begin as a pilot program involving 24 banks in 15 markets -- including the New York metropolitan region -- will encourage those banks to extend home mortgages to individuals whose credit is generally not good enough to qualify for conventional loans. Fannie Mae officials say they hope to make it a nationwide program by next spring.

Fannie Mae, the nation's biggest underwriter of home mortgages, has been under increasing pressure from the Clinton Administration to expand mortgage loans among low and moderate income people and felt pressure from stock holders to maintain its phenomenal growth in profits.

Tags: fannie, freddie, subprime, credit, economic disaster

Russia To Deploy New Nuclear Missile

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 14:41:38 GMT

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Clip Source: www.reuters.com

Russia hopes to deploy a new nuclear missile next year designed to penetrate anti-missile defenses and will build eight submarines to carry it, defense officials said on Thursday.

The latest statements underline Moscow's determination to upgrade its nuclear strike forces on land, sea and air. They are regarded by Russian commanders as the cornerstone of the country's defenses.

"A new state armaments program includes a plan to build a batch of eight nuclear submarines that would be armed with new Bulava strategic missiles."

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Russia also plans to modernize its nuclear-capable Tupolev TU-160 supersonic strategic bombers and to fully commission the first nuclear-powered submarine to carry the Bulava missile, he added.

U.S. and Iraqi forces step up against Iranian forces in Iraq

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:42:56 GMT

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Clip Source: www.longwarjournal.org

US forces detained five members of the Hezbollah Brigades in Baghdad on Saturday as part of a renewed push to blunt the return of Iranian-backed Shia terror groups reentering Iraq. The Iraqi and US military have stepped up operations against the Special Groups over the past two weeks. Iraqi and US forces killed two Special Groups fighters and captured 107 since Sept. 16.

The latest series of raids in Baghdad netted five members of the Hezbollah Brigades in New Baghdad, a former stronghold of Muqtada al Sadr's Mahdi Army. The Hezbollah Brigades is an Iranian-backed terror group that has been behind multiple roadside bombings and rocket attacks against US and Iraqi forces in Baghdad. The group films these attacks and posts them on the internet. More than 30 Hezbollah Brigades operatives have been captured over the past two months. The group is estimated at having several hundred members.

Iraq's latest milestone

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:38:38 GMT

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Clip Source: www.nypost.com

In early winter, Iraqis will vote in regional elections in the country's 14 Arab-majority provinces (the Kurds are ahead of the cycle - as they are in most things). Only the tricky status of Kirkuk must still be resolved.

Despite legions of international nay-sayers, democracy worked. After posturing for their own party bases, Iraqi politicians compromised on critically important issues. The result is the most enlightened electoral blueprint between Israel and India.

More remains to be done to ensure a voice for Iraq's smallest minorities, but, in a country where the political bad blood is real blood - generations of it - this law marks progress worthy of global applause.

2nd most favored Politician by F. Mae and F. Mac

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 01:19:14 GMT

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clipper's remarks: After only 4 short years.

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We were warned

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 02:45:56 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Despite these warnings, Woodrow Wilson signed the 1913 Federal Reserve Act. A few years later he wrote: I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men. -Woodrow Wilson

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If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks...will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.... The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.

... The modern theory of the perpetuation of debt has drenched the earth with blood, and crushed its inhabitants under burdens ever accumulating. -Thomas Jefferson

History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and its issuance. -James Madison

If congress has the right under the Constitution to issue paper money, it was given them to use themselves, not to be delegated to individuals or corporations. -Andrew Jackson

More Shaky Pics

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 03:20:50 GMT

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Paul Newman Dies at 83 RIP

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 15:52:09 GMT

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clipper's remarks: NEW HAVEN, CONN. -- Paul Newman, the Academy-Award winning superstar who personified cool as an activist, race car driver, popcorn impresario and the anti-hero of such films as "Hud," "Cool Hand Luke" and "The Color of Money," has died. He was 83.

Newman died Friday after a long battle with cancer at his farmhouse near Westport, publicist Jeff Sanderson said. He was surrounded by his family and close friends.

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Legendary film star Paul Newman dies at 83

The stunningly handsome actor maintained his superstar status through nearly 100 Broadway, television and movie roles, evolving into Hollywood's elder statesman. He was 83 and had been diagnosed with cancer. Discuss | A-Z

Colorful Coral

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 03:11:36 GMT

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