tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69347692012-01-30T18:51:40.995-09:00Mostly true reflections of an Alaskan bush pilotClancy Hugheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02712249154031785312noreply@blogger.comBlogger6971100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6934769.post-36470781634849925492012-01-04T15:04:00.000-09:002012-01-04T15:04:46.141-09:00

Re: The class action suit From my experience, this claim seems spurious. I have nothing to do with the plaintiff or the Honda Motor Company, but I do have extensive experience with my 2006 Honda Civic Hybrid with 64,200 mi in Alaska.First, I still get 51mpg but only under ideal conditions. Ideal conditions are reasonable: summer driving, level smooth dry highway with little or no obstructing

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False Advertising? Angry Hybrid Owner Suing Honda Saying Car Doesn't Get 51 MPG - Yahoo! News http://news.yahoo.com/false-advertising-angry-hybrid-car-owner-suing-honda-182504856.html via @YahooNews My Honda Civic 2006 still gets 51 mpg under ideal conditions, even with the battery modification that Heather mentions. In summer driving fast, 65-70 this still comes out around 47 mpg. Ideal

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Thus far Michael Jordan holds the record for faster than light basketball defying all laws of physics to become an all time legend. Yvette Prieto may be Faster than Light 2 with her engagement to the Michael. Meanwhile a less reported faster than light2 experiment threatens the same law of physics, namely the light barrier. As I understand it Einstein's equations are such that nothing can exceed

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A draft genome of Yersinia pestis from victims of the Black Death maps the genome from the plague of 1347-8. Researchers obtained DNA from the teeth of plague victims buried in a mass grave in East Smithfield, (originally the Churchyard of the Holly Trinity) near the Tower of London. Alexander Yersin linked Y. pestis to bubonic plague in 1894. However, controversy and doubt exist over the

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Sorry, the blog went inactive when I moved my email. Network Solutions hosts my URL; they do a good job. I have been with them since 1994 without error, so I can find no fault. In fact I would recommend them highly. Anyway I have been down for a couple of weeks without knowing it. I'm now up and running again  with lots to say about a lot of stuff. Thanks for your patients, Clancy Hughes

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Otherwise known as polar stratospheric clouds, PSCs, these striking images occur at FL 360 to 720 in extreme arctic cold, around 195K (-78deg Centigrade). These cloud pictures result from particles in the atmosphere. They also warn of extreme cold weather altimeter error and now possible ozone holes in the Arctic.[1] I wonder what implications for military or commercial pilots flying a polar rout

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Book Review John Wennberg's book, Tracking Medicine, a researcher's quest to understand health care, challenges anyone interested in health information technology or the Affordable Health Care Act to a `must read.` Wenneberg spent 40 years applying statistical analysis to the care given in various U.S. locations. Wennberg discovered an extreme variation in the manner and quantity of medical

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Why do I keep writing economics? Nobody's listening. What do I know anyway? In one way knowing is living through it. That's the economics of the street. An observation anyway: the higher than the rest of the world corporate tax structure in the US (35%) introduces two unintended consequences. One, a corporation including its officers can retain more of their collective income by paying sky-high

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How will cloud computing accommodate confidentiality and permissions to use the data for data mining? Assuming it can, the thing most needed is a linked database containing a complete and continuously updated list of every disease and syndrome known to man. Thus any provisional diagnosis or problem could in real time list every related entity (differential diagnosis) meeting the same of similar

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Popendrau or no Popendrau, our market liquidity sucks. The DTR reports: -5.77 billion short of last year on Thursday. Month to date totals a -11.1 billion and fiscal year to date comes in at -2.6 billion as compared to a year ago on the same date. The DTR, daily tax revenue, reflects closely the buying power of all market investors. Sometimes called the L2 this year over comparison closely

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Yea, folks in the big city on the hill just don't get it. The business class / middle class, lost most all of its wealth to the upper / polutaclass. What's left they are hanging onto for dear life. The upper class does not create jobs, they export them. The growing reality is that the wealth accumulated by the upper class was based on over-leveraged paper. (spell that, "house of cards.") The

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Outrage of the day, and Rush says, "The Occupy Wall Street mob are whiners." I say they have a point, and both polarized parties can surely agree on this one. That is, unless both parties are getting so much money under the table from banks as to agree to do nothing. By MARK DECAMBRE Last Updated: 4:44 AM, October 21, 2011  Posted: 11:34 PM, October 20, 2011 in the New York Post  "A plan by

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The demonstrators should know what they are protesting and have solutions. The politicians do not. First differentiate investment banking, commercial banking, brokerage houses, insurance and the stock market. They may all be on Wall Street, but they have very different functions. Capitalism and our stock market along with venture capital historically served America very well and it is in our DNA.

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The Light Barrier As a pilot experiencing the progress of aviation for my 66 years of flying, I am convinced that it is only a matter of time [SIC] until we break the Light Barrier. First of all, doing so is a matter of necessity if we are to robotically explore our Galaxy and beyond. Secondly, speed limits are made to be broken as was the speed of sound in aviation. The National Laboratory in

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Anonymous sources claim an unusual political alliance between Libertarians, the Tea Party and The Mormon Church for legalizing prostitution.  Sarah Palin said, “Shucks, it worked in Alaska.” Additionally, the proposition, no pun intended, involves legalizing street drugs with heavy taxation, legalizing polygamy to get the unwed mothers and children off the street, eliminating the minimum wage

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It should come as no surprise. The monthly trade deficit in excess of 10 billion for as long as I can remember drained the endless wealth of America's middle class, "going on empty." OK, you say that money comes back as investment into our economy and that is partly true. You say, free global trade will benefit us all, and that too would be partly true. However. The money that came back, bought

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Spontaneous celebrations in NZ before the Rugby World Cup http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdMCAV6Yd0Y

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We link to this blog written by an Iraqi Dentist, educated in England, who continued to worked during the war. His blog reveals a rich history and background to events in Iraq. The continued dysfunction in Iraq reported still today -- in contrast to the spontaneous revolutions of the Arab Spring -- seems to confirm the conviction that democracy cannot be exported or imposed on a despot society

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Huricane Irene leaves much of the East Coast without power, again. After WWII much of Europe, due to the devastation and danger from downed power lines during the war, went to underground cables for their electric grid. Much of our critical public infrastructure lags far behind - to wit our electric grid. Unfortunately the strategy of privatization and deregulation lead to utilities prioritizing

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Share | Who was the genius who decided to close the AFIP as an "obscure little agency" with no current military relevance?  Nature476, 270-272 (2011) Announced in 2005 as part of an armed forces budget cut, AFIP will close its doors 15 September. The AFIP budget was only 93 million, yet its value to clinical medicine world wide was and is beyond calculation. AFIP would be nearing its 150th

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Problems with the F22 keeps it grounded with much consternation. Was it carbon monoxide? However, the F22 arguably claims to be - and I agree - the most beautiful plane in the sky -- no more Darth Vader look. It may not be in combat yet, but it sure feels good to have it guarding Alaska -- no more intruders! The Alaska pilots who fly it, love it. I get a visceral feeling seeing it up close in the

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For too many years, students have taken out too large a loan for their higher education. The government guarantees many of these loans. This situation amounts to an exact parallel to the housing crisis. Massive student-loan-debt in the face of unemployment will soon lead to default and yet another banking disaster. The student-loan bubble will soon pop. Unscrupulous entrepreneurs sought

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Clinical Decision Support (CDS), a Lawyer’s View Michael Greenberg and Susan Ridgely, two lawyers from Rand Health publish in this week’s JAMA, Clinical Decision Support and Malpractice Risk. The plaintiff attorneys have it both ways. If the CDS suggests too many potential drug interactions for a new prescription and the physician ignores the lessor risks, he or she exposes himself or herself

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Given that American medicine now ranks at some 35th or 36th in longevity and infant mortality, and at best 15% of diagnoses are wrong, some form of clinical diagnostic decision support seems warranted. Autopsy went out of fashion for many reasons. It was once the final arbitrator of quality medicine and arguably lead to both modern scientific medicine and the high quality of our medical schools.

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They Killed the Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs. What’s more, they are beating her dead body with the political certainty that she will wake up and produce more. The depression is real. They have repealed all of the regulations written after the last depression, rules to prevent the depression from ever happening again. You heard the political sound bites of deregulation and privatization. The

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I've written about this before, but for new readers, market liquidity and short term market response very closely correlate with the daily Treasury receipts compared to a year earlier. 6/14, yesterday's tax receipts yielded 7.07 billion less than a year over, and 5.9 billion less month-to-date than that collected a year ago. --- Not good, the market today showed it. Without wildly productive

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The ongoing revolution in medical science, molecular biology, may in time give way to a yet smaller and far more complex scale of quantum biology. Coherence, entanglement and "spooky behavior at a distance" may once again re-define medical science. Even now, evidence of quantum physics emerges in plant photosynthesis and the shore-birds ability to navigate by the Earth's magnetic field. Did you

Clancy Hugheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02712249154031785312noreply@blogger.com0Homer, AK, USA59.64250000000001 -151.5483332999999759.601362500000015 -151.67373129999996 59.68363750000001 -151.42293529999998tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6934769.post-80620781355331081962011-05-27T17:18:00.001-08:002011-05-27T17:23:54.069-08:00

Investor’s Business Daily, IBD, May 23 headlines, “1,000 Small Banks May Be Shut Down Due To Dodd-Frank.” So-called conservatives unwittingly and with the confidence of political creed, place themselves far right of Adam Smith in their half a century quest for deregulation. You cannot play baseball without rules and you cannot run an economy without regulation. The banking rules were there for

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Book Review John Wennberg’s book, Tracking Medicine, a researcher’s quest to understand health care, challenges anyone interested in health information technology or the Affordable Health Care Act to a `must read.` Wenneberg spent 40 years applying statistical analysis to the care given in various U.S. locations. Wennberg discovered an extreme variation in the manner and quantity of medical

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In 2005, Nico Schlaefer, a grad student at Carnegie Mellon University, built a statistical query system and wrote a thesis he called Statistical Thought Expansion later named Ephyra. IBM was impressed. Nico worked three summers on Watson. He is now a PhD candidate at CM and an IBM PhD Fellow. In the Tourette syndrome example given below, Watson was unable to answer until they included more of

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Julia Kubanek a chemical ecologist at the Georgia Institute of Technology identified a seaweed, a red alga, Callophycus Serratus, in the oceans around Fiji that prevents the Malaria parasite from living and reproducing inside of red blood cells. Maybe that's why Malaria is not a problem in the Fiji Islands. I thought it was the Kava. http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/02/

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Thorium-232 offers a cleaner, safer, cheaper source of nuclear energy. The reason we do not use Thorium involves the Pentagon's need for fuel to make more nukes. Hello!

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Who needs the NFL anyway. Rugby can easily replace it. Rugby premiers in the next Olympics. It's much faster, cleaner with far less standing around.                                   Ireland scores against Wales Furthermore, they play Rugby Internationally, a World Cup this year. Try it you may like it. Rugby costs far less, at least, in the US.

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http://www.sciencemag.org/content/331/6019/906.abstract The brown bear must have similar metabolic features during hibernation. However the Brown Bear does wake up from time to time and sometimes wander around. A couple of years ago an oil exploration person was killed by a Brown Bear disturbed by the noisy passage of a line of workers, waking along a seismic line.. Unfortunately, the poor man

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http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110228/full/471013a.html?s=news_rss Above my pay grade but fascinating none the less, the latest results at higher energies seem to cast doubt on the existence of some expected larger particles. Like in medicine, negative findings can be as informative as positive results.

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http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v471/n7336/full/nature09678.html Ending some 443, 359, 251, 200, and 65 Myr ago, these mass extinctions were not a single event, but like most crises a series of vulnerabilities caped by a precipitating disaster. We now have a human biomass rivaling the dinosaurs and the same rise, even more so, of CO2 and a beginning ocean acidification that parallels the

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If you doubted that the derivative market in sub prime loans and apparently a lot that are not, amount to a PONZI scheme not unlike Bernie Madoff's transgressions, just read this piece in the New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/06/business/06mers.html?pagewanted=1&hp This kind of thing was called stacked sales in Colorado in and near Breckenridge in the early 50s. Sell high prairie

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Joule Unlimited in Cambridge, Mass. produces diesel fuel directly from sunlight CO2 and water. A great stunt and nearing a demonstration of commercial viability, but instead of a Ferrari as the dream for the founder, Bill Sims, why not a Tesla? The same technology makes protons; it's only a question as to what to do with them. While on a biological strategy to produce energy, why not feed the

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T. Bone Pickens on Bloomberg TV cited our present lack of an energy policy, a lack extending back over the last 40 years. Regrettably, it may be worse than that. Every oil crisis resulted in futile admonitions to conserve energy without commitment to new low cost sources. Remember the nation wide 55mph speed limit, extended daylight savings time, swizzle stick light bulbs? The list goes on and

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This you don't want to hear. The daily tax returns closely parallel market movement as a proxy for the liquidity index, L2. The daily receipts for 2/24 trails that of a year ago by a round billion. The month to date trails year over by 16.5 billion. Year to date year over shows a gain of 34.4 billion. --- Late February liquidity slumped and so did the market. Last year, the fed ends Sept. 30,

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Eric Green, director of the National Human Genomic Research Institute writes in Nature, “Charting a course for genetic medicine from base pairs to bedside.” This research perspective comes about as close to must reading as anything in the medical literature. Not much happened in the ten years since the completion of the human genome to improve health care, but significant advances in

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Last week at the advances in Genome Biology and Technology meeting in Florida, Eric Schadt, CSO of Pacific Biosciences in Menlo Park touted a radically new procedure for sequencing. A much faster process, last week Schadt and his team traced the source of the Cholera in Haiti, sequencing five strains of cholera in less than an hour. It would have previously taken a week or more. Uniquely, the

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A preliminary review of the literature on electronic medical records, EMRs and health information technology (HIT) initiatives raise a couple of doubts. One is the apparent lack of accommodation for new bio-medical and genomic advances. The lack of a current medical diagnostic database with criteria, frustrates the accommodation for new science. Such a comprehensive medical information database

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Thanks but no thanks. Check the link. This is a big deal. After taking our tax payer support for their solar panel manufacturing facility, Evergreen pulls up stakes, lays off 800 employees and moves to China. Whilst China subsidizes their own solar panel manufacturing including the Evergreen partnership, we twiddle our thumbs and wonder if the Chinese Solar panels will undercut our own

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The economy will not fully recover until the housing market gets cleared of foreclosures and uncertainty. Forcing out mortgage holders is not the only way to clear the market. If we go back to the measure that required banks to value their assets at current market prices, Mark to Market, according to generally acceptable accounting practices (GAAP), we might see some motivation for banks to

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High-Flux Solar-Driven Thermochemical Dissociation of CO2 and H2O Using Non Stoichiometric Ceria by Wm Chueh, Chris Falter et al  Cal Tech; Science 24 Dec 2010 No 6012 p1797 The authors demonstrate a concentration of sunlight on porous Ceria with temperatures up to 1500C, stripping oxygen from CO2 and from water and yielding CO, O2 and H2. (Bypassing the plant cycle of converting CO2 and water

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http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/559547/201101111852/China-Spurns-Defense-Secretary-Gates.aspx Whether you like security, economics or aircraft, these two links reflect the didicult and interrelated choices that we have to deal with. http://www.pacaf.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123231357

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Ren-Min Ma, Rupert F. Oulton, Volker J. Sorger, Guy Bartal & Xiang Zhang Nature Materials (2010) published online 19 December 2010 “Plasmon lasers are a new class of coherent optical amplifiers that generate and sustain light well below its diffraction limit. Their intense, coherent and confined optical fields can enhance significantly light–matter interactions and bring fundamentally new

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The autopsy claims, hit by blunt trauma and signs of internal bleeding. It will be interesting to hear what scientists conclude about the red winged blackbird deaths. We have few enough birds anymore. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40885546/ns/us_news-environment/

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Quick Pitch We build electronic medical records (EMR)s in many ways, but until we post patient data including genomic material into databases as discrete data points, it will not be possible to analyze the data in a meaningful way. Patient records repeat the same words and phrases many times. The chart could be three inches thick, but if one were to reduce it to only the repeated words and

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A great idea that will never see the light of day with our health-care-by-committee solution. None of the solutions put forth in the current healthcare debate take into account the rapid advances in basic medical knowledge or the need to translate this revolutionary new knowledge into hands-on clinical practice. Researchers and medical educators coined the term Translational Medicine to

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Moore's Law decrees the progressive increase in speed and capacity of silicon chips along with lower costs and pricing. Molecular configuration on the chip's surface, however, limits the smallness of scale for printed circuits and thus a barrier. Enter quantum physics. Nano-tubes/nano-wires coupled with the signal carried by the spin orientation of electrons offers a quantum reduction in scale,

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Economics 201 Sacred cows cause distortions to the market balance. For instance, minimum wage, arguably a sacred cow, causes a shift in jobs to cheap off shore labor. However, without minimum wage, there is no way most single parents can afford housing, heat & electricity, food, pediatric care, transportation and tax. Even with minimum wage, many single mothers find themselves with Medicaid,

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Legislators, facing the challenge of jobs, the economy and their own paycheck, voice the cry, “spend baby spend.” True, consumer spending drives the major segment of our consumer economy, but the well is dry. The accumulation of wealth in the upper five or ten percent of the population leaves little left over to drive a consumer economy. Compound that internal sequestration of wealth with our

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An electronic health record (EHR) should first of all serve the priority of patient care. Information is the key. Unbiased medical information is difficult to access, closely held by patent and copyright. Clinicians need a continuously updated database of all medical knowledge, especially the rapidly unfolding genomic information. Researchers need to correlate that new bio-medical knowledge with

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Roling Blackouts don't cut it. Power leaks from the high cables largely due to low voltage, old misconnected, scattered and un-coordinated networks. Engineers plan a super grid with more efficient high energy. Connecting disparent local networks and delivering from the energy rich Southwest to the energy starved Northeast will go a long way to decrease cost and increase available energy. For

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I share this openion regarding the relative hazards of soft radiation used in the scanner. Once again the government agencies know little about what they speak. The quote from a Stanford blog speaks with a bit more authority. "So it seems that a blog post by Jason Bell, a molecular biology and biophysics PhD candidate in Steve Kowalczykowski's lab at UC Davis, may still be relevant. Referencing

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“This Week,” an editorial feature in Nature , The editor asks what the BBC, IPCC and the CIA have in common. As an example The CIA in Mar 1951, warned of a “serious possibility” that Russia would invade Yugoslavia. Kent, the intelligence analyst was dismayed that nobody seemed to agree on just what that meant. Correcting the problem, the CIA dropped the term possible, replacing it with almost

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The sign on the upper deck of the Texas A&M stadium reads, “The 12th Man.” The fans were certainly loud last Saturday. On the field, the referee called pushing on a Nebraska receiver after catching a long pass on the 5-yard line. The reception would have put Nebraska in position to tie the game in the last minutes if not to win it. Replays clearly showed no foul. Arguably, the referee could have

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I’m recording this on the run. Some five or six dark suits with ties broke into my house this morning. They look out of place in Alaska. When I saw the guns, I climbed out a window and fled into the woods. They yelled and fired a short burst, but I was into the trees down a steep hill, and it’s still dark. I’m betting they won’t be able to follow me with their street shoes through the rain, the

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You know your an Alaskan when: you buy your clothes at REI, install a mercury light for security while leaving the door unlocked, prefer winter driving because the pot-holes are frozen over and for sure leave the pickup unlocked.

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And they arrested her attorneys and her son. What century is this again?

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The cover of this Information Week magazine says it all. Our economy falters not just from banking excesses, exporting jobs, importing everything else, but also from a loss of customer service. We now have robotic telephone solutions, no telephone contact for products without indtructions, no support and most important a loss of sales people.Historically sales were the high paying jobs because in

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I don't know the history, but the small business corporate tax for earnings between $100,000 and $335,000 is a whooping 39%. Above 335 thousand the rate drops to 34%. Big business with earnings above 18.33 million pay only 35%. This is bizarre. I would guess the big corporations pay bonuses so they do not need to pay much corporate tax. Furthermore, I bet the big corporation lobbyists make sure

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8/3/2010 --Expect microwave disruptions and Aurora tonight and who knows. Caution!

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"Therefore, consideration of the dynamics of clock function across temporally distinct phases of the day/night cycle, and within different tissues as the cycle progresses, may also explain obesity and metabolic pathologies that emerge in states of circadian disruption including shift work and night eating." Nature 29 July 466 p630.I've had a lot to say about depression and daylight saving time.

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I was always the kid in the back of the physics class that raised his hand and asked, “Why not – what ever?”The DOE funded hot fusion projects, at enormous expense, on gigantic international projects attempting to generate energy from fusion. Fusion potentially yields more bang for the buck, but so far it has been the other way around. Giant lasers and plasma containers yield little or no energy.

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I’ve been away, but the market never goes away. I guess we look under the carpet for any positive signs. Liquidity may be such a sign. Daily Tax Return is a short-term indicator of liquidity and thus short term, 4-5 days, market movement. Not 100% reliable, but comparing year over daily change, predicts market movement, statistically, better than most. Last Friday 7.84 b collected versus a year

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This month’s Technology Review / MIT published “10 Emerging Technologies,” inventions that will shape the future. Number 2 was “Solar Fuel” touting a synthetic photosynthesizing `designer` microbe. Under sunlight, these genetically engineered microbes convert CO2 directly into diesel fuel. Noubar Afeyan of Jouel Biotechnologies in Cambridge, MA is the inventor.Bio-fuels made from corn drive up

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Integrity "Success without honor is an unseasoned dish: it will satisfy hunger, but it won't taste good."

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Once upon a time in Iraq a Bagdad banker and a goat trader traveled a great distance to a small desert village. They drank tea with village chiefs and made themselves known as benefactors to the village: The goat trader offered to buy goats and the banker offered to lend money. The goat trader first offered to buy goats at $10 a goat. The price was good and the villagers sold him a few goats.

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In listening to the Goldman Sachs executives squirm before the Congressional Hearing, the executive’s conflict of interest seems most apparent. How can you be an insurance company, an investment bank, a brokerage house and a lending bank all at the same time?Over the past two to three decades legislators and regulators systematically removed restrictions against, mergers, branch banking, and

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"The revolving door between government and the financial companies pushing back against new regulation is hardly a new phenomenon, but The New York Times reports that the issue has grown in prominence in recent years. Data show that more than 125 former Congressional aides and lawmakers are now working for financial firms, and at least 56 are working specifically as lobbyists."http://

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The Magnetar Trade: How One Hedge Fund Helped Keep the Bubble Going (Single Page) - ProPublica

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The outcome at Daytona was sad. Despite the #59car posting the fastest qualifying time, the race ended in lap 7 when a 10 car pileup took Leilani out of the race. Check the above link for a photo of #59 in the pole position. I am still anxious to learn if this car races with any hybrid technology, or if any such is planed for the future. I think the public will buy electric cars when they see

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Those purporting to be conservative and in to favor of free trade as we have it now, might take another look at Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations. Look at the 5th paragraph Chapter VIII “Conclusion of the Mercantile System.” Referring to the textile industry, Smith observes the exploitation of foreign labor at the expense of local spinners of yarn, women working alone unprotected etc.Early English

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They got it done, but at what cost. There is no doubt that things could not stay the way they were. Something had to give. US health care by public health standards trails most of the developed world. Emergency rooms bear the burden of our uninsured who seek help only when forced to do so by an illness they cannot afford. The cost shifts to those who can pay, and the government regulations

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Just as the 55mph speed limit during the Carter administration failed to fix our dependence on hostile foreign oil, or daylight savings fails miserably today -- the very problem of oil depletion presents an opportunity.“We are being compelled to become energy misers, fretting over every little bit that goes to waste. Just as saving on the pennies won't buy us a marvellous new house, so energy

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The best they could say was "Good."I just read the Consumer Report March 2010 Coffee Ratings. They got much of it right, but lacked the sophisticated cupping and chemical testing that are needed. Not mentioned either were the organic, environmental, fair trade or high altitude issues.A scientific cupping process would test coffee in a systematic way including source, composition of the beans and

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From a USA Today survey: who do you trust to fix health-care.Doctors, 77%Hospitals, 64%University professors or researchers who study health care policy, , 61%Obama, 49%Democratic leaders in Congress, 37%Republicans leaders in Congress, 32%Pharmaceutical companies, 30%Health insurance companies, 26%Well I'm not so sure about doctors, less so hospitals, both play the escalation game with insurance

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theflyonthewall.com:China is in talks with Google, Reuters reportsLi Yizhong, minister of China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said that the government is in consultations with Google (GOOG) to resolve its dispute with the company, Reuters reports. A Google spokesperson was not available for comment. Reference Link :theflyonthewall.comGoogle illustrates the market power of big

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When I left medical practice after 30 years, I was tired and cynical, but also disgusted by the shabby mess into which the medical practice environment had evolved. That is how I came to move north and take up my secondary passion of flying. I thought long and hard about how to fix the system, but gave up and just concentrated on the air taxi business. I hardly mentioned that I was a doctor.

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Translational Medicine is the strategy of focusing on new medical research that can be rapidly translated into useful clinical tools, lower costs and improved patient care.A Tsunami of new bio-medical knowledge promises to change nearly everything about the way we diagnose and treat disease.The White Elephant in the room is the insurance companies. Others: drug companies and administrative

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The market is a song, and it keeps on singing. Today’s vibrato was no exception. Markets date back to the ancient Chinese rice markets. Civilizations and empires come and go but the market goes on. It’s the last thing to close when over-run by war, floods or pestelence and the first to open when crisis ends.US equities markets are no exception, except the US cherishes a rather more robust

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Big business remains the greatest threat to small business, just as the technology, and enterprise of small business threatens big business obsolescence. Small business disrupts with innovation while big business engineers scarcity and pushes the price of old technology.So, what does it mean to be conservative? Does it mean to protect the wealth derived from squelching innovation, or does

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1. The subprime mortgages were fraudulent in the first place. Banks were culpable, witting accomplices or neglegent at best.2. Banks have placed an illegal clause in mortgages wherin the borrower foregoes his or her legal right to retain their home in the case of bankrupcy.3. There were criminal charges and jail time with the previous three banking scandles. None have been filed thus far in this

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The tiger promises a lifetime of philanthropy, celibacy and contrition.

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Alan Ashworth, soon to lead the London Center for Molecular Pathology, leads the charge for the integration of bio-molecular research into clinical applications.[1]Normal cells repair broken strands of DNA with two agents. PARP1, poly ADP ribose polymerase, does base excision repair at the broken ends, and BRCA does homologous recombination, putting the strand back together. When successful, this

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Elisabetta Collini et al[1] write of experiments with marine cryptophytes algae. These tiny deep ocean algae display quantum coherence between molecules as an adaptive mechanism for increased efficiency in capturing photons and transmitting energy for photosynthesis. “Intriguingly, recent work has demonstrated that light absorbing molecules in some photosynthetic proteins capture and transfer

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Once upon a time in Iraq a Bagdad banker and a goat trader traveled a great distance to a small desert village. They drank tea with village chiefs and made themselves known as benefactors to the village: The goat trader offered to buy goats and the banker offered to lend money. The goat trader first offered to buy goats at $10 a goat. The price was good and the villagers sold him a few goats.

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Strategists continue to bring up bio-fuels as a short term solution to re achieving energy independence for the US. I fail to see how ethanol is all that much better than gasoline from the view of sustainability, efficiency and the release of carbon into the atmosphere.Ethanol requires land, water, and nitrogen all of which compete with food production. We simply do not have enough of the three

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Translational medicine faces a major hurdel in delivering a new discovery into clinical practice affordably enough for common distribution.The above entry in Editor's Choice, Science Magazine, vol 326, AAAS, LBR -- describes a signeling micro RNA, miR-126, released from dying cells that promotes healing of atherosclerotic placks in athrosclerotic mice."In a mouse model of atherosclerosis,

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Stock Market Sell-OffDid Obama cause it by threatening to tax the banks?Did The Chinese cause it by threatening to buy fewer US securities?Did the Supreme Court cause it by politicizing the 1st Amendment equating money to free speech?Or, how’s this for conspiracy; the banks did it by dumping equities and blaming the outcome on Obama.When the banks are the brokerage house too, they can manipulate

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I can’t believe the CEO of Goldman Sachs claimed before the congressional committee, looking into the causes of the banking crisis, that Goldman Sachs was in the business of risk management. Is that putting spin on it or what? I’m not a rocket scientist, but I don’t see the difference between derivatives and the ponzi scheme that Madoff ran. A real physicist working on Wall Street recent said in

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But even these encouraging words treat the insurance industry as an immutable fixture about which everything else revolves.

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"Francois Pienaar was born in Vereeniging, South Africa into a working-class Afrikaner family, the eldest of four boys. After completing high school in Witbank, he won an athletic scholarship to the Rand Afrikaans University, where he studied law. Pienaar made the Springbok squad in 1993. He was elected Springbok captain from his very first test and remained captain until his very last; He

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At the American Chemical Society, meeting in Washington[1] researchers presented solar cells mimicking photosynthesis, generating electricity, protons and hydrogen. In nature carbon is the proton partner in reducing energy from the sun into plant hydrocarbons. Remarkably, this water splitting process cuts out the carbon cycle; it leaves out the middleman.The team, including Charles Dismukes, from

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