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Why Oil is Still a Dinosaur

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:30:33 GMT

clipped by: mrobert
clipper's remarks: Promising research and development to give consumers better choices.

Shifts in consumer behavior directly impact the auto industry, of course. Major automakers from GM to Toyota are responding by promising mass-produced “plug-in hybrids” or “dual-fueled” vehicles that could be in your driveway by 2010, and offer up to 40 miles of pure electric driving before a normal 300+ mile gasoline range kicks in if needed. That means up to 70 percent of commuters -- those who drive less than 40 miles a day -- would practically never have to fill up their gas tank.

Tags: rocky mountain institue, hybrid cars

Michael Phelps Returns To His Tank At Sea World

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:00:53 GMT

clipped by: travislaborde

Clip Source: www.theonion.com

Michael Phelps Returns To His Tank At Sea World

ORLANDO—Fourteen-time Olympic gold medalist and SeaWorld main attraction Michael Phelps returned to his seven-million-gallon water tank Wednesday to resume his normal schedule of performing in six shows a day for marine park crowds every day of the week.

Tags: humor

Farmer's Almanac Predicts Frigid Winter of '08-/09

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 06:03:39 GMT

clipped by: pkronfield
clipper's remarks: This prediction has more intelligence than all the pseudo scientists employed by the loony left. For the sun is taken into consideration. Gather up your woolies folks, and let's hope Algore freezes his arse off in his obscene energy wasting mansion.

Clip Source: news.mainetoday.com

Households worried about the high cost of keeping warm this winter will draw little comfort from the Farmers' Almanac, which predicts below-average temperatures for most of the U.S.

"Numb's the word," says the 192-year-old publication, which claims an accuracy rate of 80 to 85 percent for its forecasts that are prepared two years in advance.

The almanac's 2009 edition, which goes on sale Tuesday, says at least two-thirds of the country can expect colder than average temperatures, with only the Far West and Southeast in line for near-normal readings.

"This is going to be catastrophic for millions of people," said almanac editor Peter Geiger, noting that the frigid forecast combined with high prices for heating fuel is sure to compound problems households will face in keeping warm.

the almanac's reclusive prognosticator Caleb Weatherbee, who uses a secret formula based on sunspots, the position of the planets and the tidal action of the moon.

Tags: global warming, loony left

Health is Wealth

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 05:19:32 GMT

clipped by: eboiesedan

Clip Source: firstvitaplus.net

Discover how this unique and first-of-its-kind product can give you a healthy lifestyle and a revitalized body that will surely amaze you with its energy boost, added strength and natural glow.

Clip Source: firstvitapluswebsite.i.ph

Regulates bowel movement, good for digestion, cleanses digestive system.

Cleans urinary, circulatory, and digestive system.

Maintains normal blood pressure.

Remedy for asthma, arthritis, insomnia, cardiovascular problems, nervousness, cardiovascular problems, skin problems, depression.

Good for treating heavy mentrual periods, Mentrual cramps.

Good recovery for patients suffering from strokes.

Good for the Skin and Eyes, for varicose veins.

Removes toxins from the body, helps prevents ulcer.

Aphrodisaic (something that arouses or intensifies sexual desire).

Helps fights and prevents Cancer.

FIRST VITA PLUS PRODUCTS ARE AVAILABLE THRU DEALERS ONLY

Tags: health, remedy, vitamin

What is a Person?

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 04:56:12 GMT

clipped by: skwirlinator

Clip Source: humanknowledge.net

Sub-Persons? A dependent person is a person who has less than the normal amount of intelligence, volition, or physiological independence. A guardian is a person who is responsible for the well-being of a dependent person and to that end may coerce that dependent person. Minor children are dependent persons, and their parents are usually their guardians. The other major group of dependent persons are the mentally disabled. Cetaceans and apes are not intelligent enough to be considered even dependent persons.

Super-Persons? No amount of mental or physical power makes any entity deserve more rights than persons. Bioengineered and artificial beings are fully persons if they meet the tests of intelligence and volition.

Tags: person, sub-person, super-person, classification, order

A few Impossible Advances

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 04:22:05 GMT

clipped by: skwirlinator
clipper's remarks: Energy and Momentum Non-Conservation. There will never be a way to increase the available energy or change the net momentum in a closed system.

Clip Source: humanknowledge.net

Impossible Advances

Divine Salvation. Humans will never experience either collective or individual salvation by any divine or supernatural agency.

Paranormality. The paranormal phenomena alleged in 2000 by many humans will never prove to be real and will over time be recognized as delusions, hysteria, myths, nonsense, and hoaxes.

Reanimation. There will never be any reanimation of humans whose brains have suffered any of the degradation that occurs at normal temperatures when metabolism ceases. Human personalities may someday be crudely simulated, but such simulations will never have significant fidelity and would not in any event have the identity of the simulated personality.

Explanation of Somethingness. Humans will never have a definitive answer to the question of why there is something rather than nothing. Humans may, however, eventually be able to show that no definitive explanation of existence is possible.

Superluminal Communication

Temporal Travel

Teleporter Travel

Uploading

Tags: impossible advances, futurology, social sciences

Screen 2 - Simple Screen Sharing

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:57:38 GMT

clipped by: RecordSage
clipper's remarks: web-based collaboration tool

Clip Source: screen2.com

Home

About

ProfitBusiness

Tutorial

This is a tutorial that will help you to get familiar with Screen2 website. When you feel confident enough, you may easily start using the normal version of Screen2.

Screen2
Is a free application to share webpages with anyone you want. Just input your name, invite a friend and surf together!

Tags: web-based, screen2, sharing

How to Start War with Russia--101 (Lesson from the Neoconservatives)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:34:10 GMT

clipped by: blueridge
clipper's remarks: Bush Implements Neocon Lesson: Have Condi go to all the satellite states and sign missile placement deals about 100 miles from Russia, then sit back and watch Russia "invade or attack its neighbor" to disarm the threat. Meanwhile, this is precisely what the US was provoked by from Russia in the Cuban Missile Crisis!

Purpose? This is part of the neoconservative plan for "global hegemony" which Bush is now implementing just prior to leaving office, ensuring sparked conflict into the next presidency (which would also help McCain, although Obama is a CFR shill too), setting a continuation of the neocon agenda for another four to eight years.

Early in his pResidency Bush met with Putin in blue jeans at his Texas ranch. Now he will stab him in the back as he leaves office.

This is normal if one reviews US foreign policy since the 20th century and sets the stage for WWIII based upon dangerous absolute Alliances, as Condi refers to with Poland "as much as if it was a US territory"

Clip Source: www.breitbart.com

Russia warns of response to US missile shield

MOSCOW (AP) - Russia says its response to the further development of a U.S. missile shield in Poland will go beyond diplomacy.

The United States and Poland signed a deal Wednesday to place a U.S. missile defense base just 115 miles from Russia's westernmost fringe.

WARSAW, Poland (AP)—Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her Polish counterpart signed a deal Wednesday to build a U.S. missile defense base in Poland, an agreement that prompted an infuriated Russia to warn of a possible attack against the former Soviet satellite.

Rice dismissed blustery comments from Russian leaders who say Warsaw's hosting of 10 U.S. interceptor missiles just 115 miles from Russia's westernmost frontier opens the country up to attack.

Rice said. "It's 2008 and the United States has a ... firm treaty guarantee to defend Poland's territory as if it was the territory of the United States. So it's probably not wise to throw these threats around."

Tags: bush, condi rice, neoconservatives, russia, nato, cold war, wwiii

More pipes for the Internet

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:40:53 GMT

clipped by: lystrata

Clip Source: pipes.deri.org

Wellcome to DERI Pipes!

Inspired by Yahoo's Pipes, DERI Web Data Pipes implement a generalization which can also deal with formats such as RDF (RDFa), Microformats and generic XML.

DERI Pipes are Open Source Software, ad as such they can be easily extended and applyed in use cases where a local deployment is needed.

DERI Pipes provides a rich web GUI where pipes can be graphically edited, debugged and invoked. The execution engine is also available as a standalone JAR, which is ideal for embedded use.

DERI Pipes, in general, produce as an output streams of data (e.g. XML, RDF,JSON) that can be used by applications. However, when invoked by a normal browser, they will provide a end user GUI for the user to enter parameter values and browse the results (see the examples below) .

Tags: visual programming, pipes, yahoo

Better to Be Fat and Fit Than Skinny and Unfit

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:01:22 GMT

clipped by: BobbyDelray
clipper's remarks: Since this article describes my current of state of affairs with my weight I decided to clip it.

Lots of good information by following the links in the clip and the original article.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Increasingly, medical research is showing that it isn’t. Despite concerns about an obesity epidemic, there is growing evidence that our obsession about weight as a primary measure of health may be misguided.

Last week a report in The Archives of Internal Medicine compared weight and cardiovascular risk factors among a representative sample of more than 5,400 adults. The data suggest that half of overweight people and one-third of obese people are “metabolically healthy.” That means that despite their excess pounds, many overweight and obese adults have healthy levels of “good” cholesterol, blood pressure, blood glucose and other risks for heart disease.

The data follow a report last fall from researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Cancer Institute showing that overweight people appear to have longer life expectancies than so-called normal weight adults.

Low sperm level Male infertility

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:41:23 GMT

clipped by: jimmy123

Clip Source: www.conceivingconcepts.com

There aint nothin’ wrong with my boys... As much as men may not want to believe it, infertility can be due to male factor issues almost half of the time. When a couple begins an infertility work-up, the male partner is often asked to provide a semen sample for a semen analysis, sometimes called a sperm count. For a couple hundred bucks, it’s non-invasive, relatively inexpensive, and only slightly embarrassing.

During a semen analysis, the semen sample is analyzed for volume, viscosity (thickness), pH and color of the ejaculate, sperm concentration, motility, morphology, and forward progression of the sperm. The sample is also examined for the presence of white or red blood cells which may indicate infection or inflammation. As Dr. Werthman of the Center for Male Reproductive Medicine explains, “from this simple test, we can tell how many sperm are present, how many appear normal and how many are moving.

A semen analysis does not assess sperm function.

Tags: male infertility, sperm test, semen

Yoda

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:58:56 GMT

clipped by: twylightsoul

Clip Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

If Batman had a cat, it would probably look something like this.

The household pet, named Yoda, was born with an extra set of ears.

After adopting the eight-week-old kitten into their Illinois home, Valerie decided to have Yoda checked out with the local vet.

'The vet had never seen anything like it before,' explains Valerie. 'He immediately went to the internet and found the four-eared cat in Germany.

Yoda's extra 'flaps' are separate to the base of his skull, with one placed slightly behind the other.

'Yoda's hearing is normal as far as we know,' says Valerie. 'People do a double take when they see him or his picture. It is great fun showing him off.

Tags: animals, news

Better to Be Fat and Fit Than Skinny and Unfit

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:49:03 GMT

clipped by: Kelika

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

At the same time, about one out of four slim people — those who fall into the “healthy” weight range — actually have at least two cardiovascular risk factors typically associated with obesity, the study showed.

Tags: health

Follow the Big Oil dollars to McCain

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:49:56 GMT

clipped by: lap322

Clip Source: money.cnn.com

Top oil lobbyists

Company spending so far in 2008

Company	Amount in millions
1. Exxon Mobil	$8.1
2. Chevron	$6.1
3. BP	$5.2
4. ConocoPhillips	$4.4
5. Koch	$3.8
6. Marathon	$3.6
7. API	$2.2
8. Occidental	$1.4
9. Williams	$1.2
10. Shell	$1.2

Source:Center for Res

If cash equals friendship, then John McCain and the oil industry are best friends.

The Arizona Republican has taken $1.4 million from oil industry employees in the 2007-2008 election cycle, more than any other politician, according to CRP.

That's over three times as much as Barack Obama, who ranks just below Hillary Clinton as the highest Democrat recipient.

With gas prices near record levels and the public clamoring for something to be done, now is a dangerous time for any politician to be taking money from the oil industry.

Lack of number vocabulary does not impede completing numerical tasks

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:57:09 GMT

clipped by: thekay

Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

Aboriginal children 'can count without numbers'

Australian Aboriginal children can count even without having words for numbers, according to a study by British and Australian experts released Tuesday

findings run counter to recently revived scientific claims that children can only count if they know the words for numbers

four to seven-year-olds from two Aboriginal communities have an "innate system" to count with, even though their languages only have normal words for one, two, few and many

suggests that we have an innate system for recognising and representing numerosities... and that the lack of a number vocabulary should not prevent us from doing numerical tasks

Tags: math