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Energy What's your battery shelf-life experience?
05-18-2013
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http://www.edn.com, Bill Schweber
While looking for more batteries during a recent power failure, I came across some D-size alkaline cells in the back of a drawer, in their original package (see photo) with the price and store name sticker.
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Energy New “Artificial Leaf” Concept Could Blow Up Fuel Cell Market
05-18-2013
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http://cleantechnica.com, Tina Casey
The idea of an “artificial leaf” sounds simple enough: Take a small, cheap, light-collecting device the size of a typical leaf, dunk it in a quart of water, and use solar energy to generate enough hydrogen gas for powering a small fuel cell.
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Food Pam Warhurst: How we can eat our landscapes
05-18-2013
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ted.com
What should a community do with its unused land? Plant food, of course. With energy and humor, Pam Warhurst tells at the TEDSalon the story of how she and a growing team of volunteers came together to turn plots of unused land into communal vegetable
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Space Travel and Exploration Space Tourism's Black Carbon Problem
05-18-2013
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popsci.com
The industry and the F.A.A. say the climate effects of flying civilians into space will be negligible, but some scientists fret about the accumulation of black carbon in the stratosphere.
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Energy Odd Twist: US Solar Company Sells Solar Panels To China
05-18-2013
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http://cleantechnica.com, Nicholas Brown
Solaria, an American solar panel manufacturer, is going to sell a good chunk of its solar panels to China, counter to the much more common scenario of China manufacturing solar panels (and other goods) for the US.
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Space Travel and Exploration NASA Announces Brightest Lunar Explosion Ever Recorded
05-18-2013
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newswatch.nationalgeographic.com, Andrew Fazekas
A boulder-sized meteor slammed into the moon in March, igniting an explosion so bright that anyone looking up at the right moment might have spotted it, NASA announced Friday.
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B.O.R.G. Transportation Stop Action Script
05-18-2013
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Eddie Craig
“Transportation Stop” Action Script.
This information is provided by Eddie Craig (a former deputy sheriff, and due process expert)
TO BE PRACTICED AND MEMORIZED!
If necessary, print this out and keep it in your car for easy reference, but it
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Gun Rights Colorado sheriffs sue over new gun restrictions
05-17-2013
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Colorado sheriffs upset with gun restrictions adopted in the aftermath of last year's mass shootings filed a federal lawsuit Friday, challenging the regulations as unconstitutional. The lawsuit involves sheriffs from 54 of Colorado's 64 counties,
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Surveillance Cell phone users ‘have no legitimate expectation of privacy’ – judge
05-17-2013
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Russia Today
A federal judge recently ruled that if someone has their cell phone turned on, their location data does not deserve protection under the Fourth Amendment, meaning law enforcement can track individuals without a search warrant.
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TAXES: State Glenn “Kane” Jacobs Mental Smackdown of Tennessee Lt Governor
05-17-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
WWE Pro Wrestling champion Glenn “Kane” Jacobs is about to deliver a mental smackdown on Tennessee’s Lieutenant Governor over a debate on the internet tax AKA the “Marketplace Fairness Act”! (Video Interview)
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Criminal Justice System Bin Laden son-in-law: Warning issued by NY judge
05-17-2013
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Christian Science Monitor
Bin Laden son-in-law warning: A N.Y. judge gave Osama bin Laden's son-in-law a warning that he may have chosen the wrong lawyer to represent him. The judge told Sulaiman Abu Ghaith that his Jewish lawyer may be facing jail time.
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Law Enforcers or Peace Officers Surprise, Surprise
05-17-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
One of the videos eyewitnesses shot with a cell-phone while cops beat David Sal Silva to death in Kern County, California, has “disappeared” now that the phones are in the sheriff’s department’s custody.
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Science, Medicine and Technology Blood Clot Risk Management
05-17-2013
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arclein
hey include being physically active, avoiding smoking, following a healthy diet, maintaining a healthy body mass index, and controlling blood sugar levels, blood pressure and cholesterol. They then compared the incidence of blood clots among those wh
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Surviving the Collapse The Center for Natural Living: Toward a Voluntary and Natural World
05-17-2013
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www.youtube.com
Introducing the Center for Natural Living, a tax-exempt non-profit based in Central Texas with the mission of demonstrating the value of voluntary cooperation and natural living in the areas of sustainability, family, and health by creating education
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3D Printing Haptic Technology Lets You "Touch" Virtual Objects
05-18-2013
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livescience.com
Haptic technology like the Sensable Phantom makes manipulating 3D digital objects intuitive and responsive, allowing for a range of uses including prototyping, surgery practice, virtual sculpting, and interactive museum displays.
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Prepping Prepper quail for food Morpheus Titania
Leo Shares how easy it is to raise quail as a food source. You get 200 eggs per female bird 6-8 weeks after it is hatched. 6-8 days in the incubator. The cages are 2 x 2 x 8in high and you can keep 12 bird
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Entertainment: Sports Ken Venturi, golf pro turned analyst, dies
05-18-2013
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http://www.sfgate.com, Ron Kroichick
Ken Venturi, a San Francisco native who learned how to play golf at Harding Park, memorably won the 1964 U.S. Open and later built a long and distinguished career as a television analyst, died Friday in Rancho Mirage (Riverside County). He was 82.
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Religion: Believers Food For Thought
“There Is A Conspiracy”
05-17-2013 Chuck Baldwin
The title of today’s column, “There Is A Conspiracy,” is a direct quote from Ezekiel 22:25. In this passage, God instructed Ezekiel to blow the whistle on the conspiracy of Israel’s prophets to deny people truth, to devour people’s souls, to defraud
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Humor SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, May 19, 2013 Edition
05-17-2013 John Semmens
Attempt to Morph “Bad Luck” into Scandals “Unfair,” Says Carney
President Obama's Press Secretary Jay Carney bristled at the suggestion the Administration is embroiled in three major scandals. “What scandals?” Carney demanded to know. “The Preside
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Law Enforcers or Peace Officers 75 Years in Prison For Videotaping Police
05-17-2013
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NBC News (video)
Michael Allison faces 75 years in prison for five counts of recording law enforcement officials without their consent in Robinson, Illinois.
Illinois is one of the states applying old eavesdropping and wiretapping statutes to new technologies like
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Science, Medicine and Technology Progressive Coronary Artery Calcium Buildup
05-17-2013
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arclein
For those with the greatest increase in coronary artery calcium buildup (300 units or more), the study found a more than six-fold increase in coronary heart disease incidents independent of other risk factors for heart disease.
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Science Population Recalculated
05-17-2013
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arclein
A research team from the Autonomous University of Madrid and CEU-San Pablo University in Spain predicts the global population will begin to decline by the middle of the 21st century. Their study, published in the scientific journal “Simulation,” used
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Science, Medicine and Technology What Everybody Got Wrong About Tesla
05-17-2013
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arclein
Tesla basically responded by saying that as long as you get the technology right, the style doesn't really matter. Musk leveled this exact charge at rival Henrik Fisker:
...he is a designer or stylist… he thinks the reason we don’t have electric
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Bitcoin US authorities launch their first attack on bitcoin
05-17-2013
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Tech Investor News
Yesterday the Department of Homeland Security served the Dwolla mobile payment service with a court order requiring it to immediately cease all account activities with the Mt. Gox bitcoin exchange