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Solar energy is becoming very popular in India. By 2050 sun will be the largest source of energy ahead of fossil fuels, wind, hydro and nuclear energy.
Solar power is most reliable form of renewable energy available. Solar energy is generated , and it can be used in several forms to help power your home or business. Solar-powered photovoltaic (PV) panels convert the sun's rays into electricity by exciting electrons in silicon cells using the photons of light from the sun. This electricity can then be used to supply renewable energy to your home or business.
To understand this process further, let's look at the solar energy components that make up a complete solar power system.
Our sun is a naturally occurring nuclear reactor. It releases tiny packets of energy called photons, which travel the 93 million miles from the sun to Earth in about eight-and-a-half minutes. Every hour, enough photons impact our planet to theoretically satisfy global energy needs for an entire year. However, solar-generated power currently accounts for just four-tenths of one percent of the total energy consumed in the United States. Solar technology is improving and costs are dropping rapidly, though, so our ability to harness the sun's abundance of energy is on the rise. In fact, a report from the International Energy Agency indicates that solar energy could become the largest global source of electricity by 2050. In the coming years, we will all be enjoying the benefits of solar-generated electricity in one way or another.
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In most solar systems, solar panels are placed on the roof. An ideal site will have no shade on the panels, especially during the prime sunlight hours of 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.; a south-facing installation will usually provide the optimum potential for your system, but other orientations may provide sufficient production. Trees or other factors that cause shading during the day will cause significant decreases to power production. The importance of shading and efficiency cannot be overstated. In a solar panel, if even just one of its 36 cells is shaded, power production will be reduced by more than half. Experienced installation contractors such as NW Wind & Solar use a device called a Solar Pathfinder to carefully identify potential areas of shading prior to installation.
Not every roof has the correct orientation or angle of inclination to take advantage of the sun's energy. Some systems are designed with pivoting panels that track the sun in its journey across the sky. Non-tracking PV systems should be inclined at an angle equal to the site's latitude to absorb the maximum amount of energy year-round. Alternate orientations and/or inclinations may be used to optimize energy production for particular times of day or for specific seasons of the year.
Solar panels
Solar panels, also known as modules, contain photovoltaic cells made from silicon that transform incoming sunlight into electricity rather than heat. ("Photovoltaic" means electricity from light — photo = light, voltaic = electricity.)
Solar photovoltaic cells consist of a positive and a negative film of silicon placed under a thin slice of glass. As the photons of the sunlight beat down upon these cells, they knock the electrons off the silicon. The negatively-charged free electrons are preferentially attracted to one side of the silicon cell, which creates an electric voltage that can be collected and channeled. This current is gathered by wiring the individual solar panels together in series to form a solar photovoltaic array. Depending on the size of the installation, multiple strings of solar photovoltaic array cables terminate in one electrical box, called a fused array combiner. Contained within the combiner box are fuses designed to protect the individual module cables, as well as the connections that deliver power to the inverter. The electricity produced at this stage is DC (direct current) and must be converted to AC (alternating current) suitable for use in your home or business.
The inverter is typically located in an accessible location, as close as practical to the modules. In a residential application, the inverter is often mounted to the exterior sidewall of the home near the electrical main or sub panels. Since inverters make a slight noise, this should be taken into consideration when selecting the location.
The inverter turns the DC electricity generated by the solar panels into 120-volt AC that can be put to immediate use by connecting the inverter directly to a dedicated circuit breaker in the electrical panel.
The inverter, electricity production meter, and electricity net meter are connected so that power produced by your solar electric system will first be consumed by the electrical loads currently in operation. The balance of power produced by your solar electric system passes through your electrical panel and out onto the electric grid. Whenever you are producing more electricity from your solar electric system than you are immediately consuming, your electric utility meter will turn backwards!
Net meter
In a solar electric system that is also tied to the utility grid, the DC power from the solar array is converted into 120/240 volt AC power and fed directly into the utility power distribution system of the building. The power is "net metered," which means it reduces demand for power from the utility when the solar array is generating electricity – thus lowering the utility bill. These grid-tied systems automatically shut off if utility power goes offline, protecting workers from power being back fed into the grid during an outage. These types of solar-powered electric systems are known as "on grid" or "battery-less" and make up approximately 98% of the solar power systems being installed today.
Other benefits of solar
By lowering a building's utility bills, these systems not only pay for themselves over time, they help reduce air pollution caused by utility companies. For example, solar power systems help increase something called "peak load generating capacity," thereby saving the utility from turning on expensive and polluting supplemental systems during periods of peak demand. The more local-generating solar electric power systems that are installed in a given utility's service area, the less capacity the utility needs to build, thus saving everyone from funding costly additional power generating sources. Contributing clean, green power from your own solar electric system helps create jobs and is a great way to mitigate the pollution and other problems produced by electricity derived from fossil fuel. Solar-powered electrical generating systems help you reduce your impact on the environment and save money at the same time!
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Today we watched the craziest animal drama I've ever seen in the newsroom. I was sitting at my desk and saw a big flash of white light and heard a loud bang at the same time all the power went out. I looked up to see a squirrel that had just fried itself on a light pole. About 10 seconds later it dropped like a dead weight to the ground.
I was sure it had to be dead, but it started twitching and eventually raised its head and was moving around. A minute later it was dragging itself along on its front paws, obviously paralyzed in its back half. Incredibly, it dragged itself across a stretch of pavement and up the first couple feet of a hill that is covered with brush and trees.
It was an unbelievable feat of stamina for a little creature that had just gotten the electrical shock of its life.
A couple minutes later, the newsroom cat caught the scent of fried squirrel and streaked across the street to get its prize. Certainly with a paralyzed back end and all its energy spent to get as far as it had, the squirrel was now done for. But amazingly, in a short tussle with Otis the Cat, the squirrel gathered itself together and escaped up a spindly little tree.
Otis, never one to be discouraged, started climbing the trees trying to get to the injured squirrel. I've never seen a cat climb – and then DESCEND – trees the way that Otis did. He would wrap one leg around a sapling and then slide like a fireman the rest of the way down the trunk…only to look up, relocate the squirrel, and start his way up another tree moments later.
Meanwhile the squirrel was holding its own, staying in the upper branches of the trees that wouldn't support Otis, moving to another tree branch any time he got too close.
I suppose it's a lesson in triumph over adversity…or what can be accomplished through will power…or what it means to never give up even when the prize stays just out of reach. Or perhaps it was just a really cool show to watch for 20 minutes today, marveling at two creatures who were just being animals.

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The Department of State is amending the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) to update the policy regarding Libya to reflect the United Nations Security Council arms embargoes adopted in February and March.
Effective Date: This rule is effective May 24, 2011.Start Further Info
Nicholas Memos, Office of Defense Trade Controls Policy, Department of State, by telephone: (202) 663-2804; fax: (202) 261-8199; or e-mail: email@example.com. Attn: Part 126, Libya.End Further Info End Preamble Start Supplemental Information
On February 26, 2011, the United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 1970, paragraph 9 of which provides that U.N. member states shall immediately take the necessary measures to prevent the sale, supply or transfer of arms and related materiel of all types to the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, with certain exceptions. Additionally, on March 17, 2011, the U.N. Security Council adopted Resolution 1973, paragraph 4 of which authorizes member states to take all necessary measures, notwithstanding the arms embargo established by paragraph 9 of Resolution 1970, to protect civilians and civilian populated areas under threat of attack in Libya. This rulemaking implements the Security Council's actions within the ITAR by adding Libya to § 126.1(c) and revising the previous policy on Libya contained in § 126.1(k) to announce a policy of denial for all requests for licenses or other approvals to export or otherwise transfer defense articles and services to Libya, except where not prohibited under UNSC embargo and determined to be in the interests of the national security and foreign policy of the United States.
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The Department of State is of the opinion that controlling the import and export of defense articles and services is a foreign affairs function of the United States Government and that rules implementing this function are exempt from § 553 (Rulemaking) and § 554 (Adjudications) of the Administrative Procedure Act. Since this rule is exempt from 5 U.S.C. 553, it is the view of the Department of State that the provisions of § 553(d) do not apply to this rulemaking. Therefore, this rule is effective upon publication. The Department also finds that, given the national security issues surrounding U.S. policy towards Libya, that notice and public procedure on this rule would be impracticable, unnecessary, or contrary to the public interest. See 5 U.S.C. 808(2).
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This amendment does not involve a mandate that will result in the expenditure by State, local, and tribal governments, in the aggregate, or by the private sector, of $100 million or more in any year and it will not significantly or uniquely affect small governments. Therefore, no actions were deemed necessary under the provisions of the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995.
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List of Subjects in 22 CFR Part 126End List of Subjects
Accordingly, for the reasons set forth above, Title 22, Chapter I, Subchapter M, part 126, is amended as follows:Start Part
PART 126—GENERAL POLICIES AND PROVISIONSEnd Part Start Amendment Part
1. The authority citation for part 126 continues to read as follows:End Amendment Part Start Amendment Part
2. Section 126.1 is amended by revising paragraphs (c) and (k) to read as follows:End Amendment Part
(c) Exports and sales prohibited by United Nations Security Council embargoes. Whenever the United Nations Security Council mandates an arms embargo, all transactions that are prohibited by the embargo and that involve U.S. persons (see § 120.15 of this chapter) anywhere, or any person in the United States, and defense articles or services of a type enumerated on the United States Munitions List (22 CFR part 121), irrespective of origin, are prohibited under the ITAR for the duration of the embargo, unless the Department of State publishes a notice in the Federal Register specifying different measures. This would include, but is not limited to, transactions involving trade by U.S. persons who are located inside or outside of the United States in defense articles or services of U.S. or foreign origin that are located inside or outside of the United States. United Nations Arms Embargoes include, but are not necessarily limited to, the following countries:
(1) Cote d'Ivoire.
(2) Democratic Republic of Congo (see also paragraph (i) of this section).
(3) Iraq.
(4) Iran.
(5) Lebanon.
(6) Liberia.
(7) Libya (see also paragraph (k) of this section).
(8) North Korea.
(9) Sierra Leone.
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(11) Sudan.
(k) Libya. It is the policy of the United States to deny licenses or other approvals for exports or imports of defense articles and defense services destined for or originating in Libya, except where it determines, upon case-by-case review, that the transaction (or activity) is not prohibited under applicable U.N. Security Council resolutions and that the transaction (or activity) is in furtherance of the national security and foreign policy of the United States.
Dated: May 17, 2011.
Ellen O. Tauscher,
Under Secretary, Arms Control and International Security, Department of State.
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It's 4th of July weekend, when those of us who love America and/or fireworks celebrate and hopefully show up back at work with all of our fingers and eyeballs.
To celebrate, let's take a look at one of the most misunderstood comic book characters ever- Captain America. To the uninitiated, Cap is often thought of as a jingoistic, dense, corny character. Symbolic of American imperialism (real or imagined) at worst, a silly bit of propaganda at best. And those interpretations aren't completely incorrect, but the truth is more complicated. There's much more to the character than that.
The Captain first saw publication almost a year before Pearl Harbor. That's the cover to the left, where he's socking Hitler in the mouth. We weren't at war yet, but for Jack Kirby and Joe Simon, we couldn't be soon enough. Two Jewish men living in the relative safety of New York, reading the news of what was happening across the world, hearing brutally frightening rumors from friends and relatives still in touch with the homeland. For them, creating Captain America wasn't aggressive warmongering. It was born from the desire to do something. It's been whitewashed now, but there were many Nazi sympathizers in America back then, and even besides them it wasn't an uncommon view that bloodshed elsewhere wasn't our problem. That didn't sit well in the hearts of Jack and Joe, and since they couldn't pick up their guns and go to war, they picked up their pens.
The key to understanding Cap is in his origin. Steve Rogers, a sickly young man driven to do his part, rejected by the army as 4-F every time he tries to enlist. The kind of guy the Nazis would have no problem gassing to death and sticking in a mass grave. But for Americans, it's the textbook guy who can come from nothing and nowhere and reinvent himself into whatever he wants to be, in this case a super soldier. Thanks to hard work and some sci-fi serums and beta rays, Steve becomes a little faster, sharper, stronger, and tougher than anyone who had ever lived before, and all he wanted was to make a few wrong things right.
And so he did, on paper at least. All through the war, Cap was always there at the newsstand knocking the shit out of some awful bastard. It's not pretty, but for a nation at war, and particularly kids, it's important to have some kind of outlet for that pressure through art.
Once the war was over, most costumed do-gooders in general vanished. For whatever reason, super heroes weren't a commodity anymore post war, and except for a very small handful were brushed aside for Western, Sci-Fi, Horror, Crime, and Romance comics (EC will be a post for another day). This was the case until the early 60's, when the Captain returned to a world that had changed dramatically.
I've always related to a good Rip Van Winkle story, and Captain America's is probably the single greatest one from the fiction of our time. In order to explain his disappearance from the newsstand, the storyline was invented that Cap had been frozen in suspended animation just as the tide turned our way in the war. He reemerged from ice in the modern day. Actually 1964, but it's the perpetual "Modern Day" in Marvel continuity; from that point to today's stories only about 10 years have passed. The less time you spend dwelling on that the better.
Cap was brought back both for nostalgic reasons and also to bring some stability to a book that was still trying to find it's way. The Avengers had been created by Stan Lee to appease Marvel publisher Martin Goodman, who had taken note of DC's Justice League of America comic and ordered Stan to do something similar. DC was where Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and most other characters with the underwear outside the pants resided. Characters who were inclined to be united by the common cause of heroism. Unlike Marvel guys like Iron Man, Hulk, and Thor, who were all more likely to dislike each other, and didn't seem likely to be friends and want to work together.
Stan and Jack Kirby said a few times that their characters tended to write themselves, and as this Avengers series progressed, it became less and less easy to contrive reasons Marvel's solo heavy hitters would still be hanging out. Hulk was a loose cannon and was written out early on, likely to go berserk at any time. Iron Man was just in it for kicks. Thor was an actual God. It took Cap's return to give the book focus, and from there, Avengers was a winner with a sure direction.
Like most Marvel characters, Cap found himself a bit haunted. The last thing he saw before his life broke apart was his pal Bucky losing his, he came to in a world where his friend had been dead longer than he had been alive. His family had all gone, as well. He found himself adrift. There was always the question of whether strength of character really meant anything anymore. Patriotism was definitely something different. he struggled with the possibility of being irrelevant, meta-textually. Vietnam wasn't mentioned much, if at all, but the implications were there. His anguish over his fallen friend became an analogy for his mourning of lost time and confusion. If he just had an old friend from before to talk to…
As the 70's arrived, Captain America became a vehicle for loaded symbolism and something not unlike satire. An allegory for Watergate came across where Cap unraveled an insidious plot that took him to find that the President had been calling the shots. He was so shaken by this that he gave up being Cap and became Nomad. He eventually came to understand that America is not it's government, it's the people of the Nation, and it's up to him to represent and fight for them.
In the 80's, the military called him to the carpet and ordered him to work directly for them, and get paid to do so. His reaction was to resign, switch to red, white, and black, and merely go by "The Captain." A gung-ho xenophobic lunatic with a buzzcut took his place, and served as a representation of what the uninitiated might have thought Cap was until he finally went too far, got his walking papers, and Steve Rogers returned to the role. The idea of going on the army payroll was dismissed. He established a telephone hotline, citizens in trouble could call him to investigate superhuman crime. Cap has always been depicted as nothing less or more than the champion for the people.


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Barbra Streisand has hit the studio with actresses Anne Hathaway and Daisy Ridley to record a song from the musical A Chorus Line.
The Funny Girl icon has been recruiting fellow entertainers to tackle musical theater favorites for her upcoming album, Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway, and her latest collaboration features new mom Anne and Star Wars: The Force Awakens actress Daisy.
The three women take on At the Ballet, from composer Marvin Hamlisch's hit 1975 stage show, and video footage of the session, which is performed from three ballet dancers' points of view, was released on Vevo.com on Friday (10Jun16).
"I wanted to work with some women on this album, and I thought, 'Well, give them a little character, have them act (out) scenes,'" Streisand explains. "So, I have to have good actresses who can sing."
In the behind-the-scenes clip, recorded inside Streisand's Malibu, California home studio, she claims she knew Hathaway, who was heavily pregnant at the time, would be "perfect casting" for the role of Maggie, after showing off her vocal skills in the 2012 movie adaptation of Les Miserables, for which she won an Oscar.
"When Anne came into the studio, I was so happy to see her looking radiant and glowing - no make-up, with the beauty of a woman about to give birth to a child," she says.
However, Barbra confesses she was a little hesitant when it came to Daisy as she had yet to hear the British actress sing, despite sitting down with the 24-year-old to discuss her possible involvement in her long-awaited movie adaptation of the musical Gypsy.
Streisand recalls, "I was interviewing Daisy Ridley for Gypsy, and I said, 'Can you sing?'. And she said, 'Yeah, I can sing.' I didn't know whether that was supposed to be like me in Funny Girl, when he says, 'Can you skate?' and I go, 'Of course I can skate!' and then the next minute she's falling all over the place because of course she can't skate!"
Instead, Barbra was pleasantly surprised to find Daisy was telling the truth, and the Star Wars star is still pinching herself at the unique recording opportunity.
"I have had no experience recording," she comments. "So, to have my first recording experience with Barbra Streisand is pretty insane. Not only am I working with two Oscar-winning actresses, both of those actresses won Oscars for musical films, so, slightly daunting."
At the Ballet will feature on Streisand's 39th album, which will also include an unlikely duet with Jamie Foxx, on The Sound of Music classic Climb E'ry Mountain, and a collaboration with Hugh Jackman on Any Moment Now from Into the Woods.


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A new biography of former Philadelphia 76ers star guard Allen Iverson alleges that Iverson was profoundly drunk at the infamous 2002 press conference in which he intoned some variation of "we're talking about practice" 22 times.
According to Kent Babb's new book, Not a Game: The Incredible Rise and Unthinkable Fall of Allen Iverson, Larry Brown, the 76ers coach at the time, former 76ers president Pat Croce, and former general manager Billy King all agreed that Iverson had been drinking heavily prior to the press conference, which King suggested Iverson attend four days after the 76ers lost to the Boston Celtics in the Eastern Conference playoffs.
Iverson had just met with Brown to discuss his future, arriving late and engendering an argument in the parking lot. Brown had opined prior to the meeting that any 76er could be traded. The book asserts that Iverson asked Brown if he was likely to be traded. Brown answered no.
Iverson then left, accompanied by a friend, and came back for the press conference drunk. Brown told Babb, "I assumed he went and fooled around somewhere," making a gesture indicating drinking. King admitted that he knew Iverson was acting strangely but "if we thought that he was drinking or whatever, we'd have never done it." The book claims King was trying to find a way to abort the press conference while Croce, watching the conference on television, realized Iverson was drunk and asked his wife to turn the television off.
John Smallwood, a Daily News columnist at the conference, recalled, "He was lit. If he had been sober, he would have been able to get himself out of that. He never would've gone down that path. Maybe you had to have been around him all the time to know the difference, but we all knew."
In 2013, Iverson excused his behavior in 2002 by citing the murder of his friend, Rahsaan Langford, who was killed seven months prior to the press conference. He said, "They had no idea my best friend had just got killed. The press conference wasn't about practice; it was about me (possibly) being traded from Philadelphia. Nobody ever talked about that, never heard why I was upset or what the conference was about."
The book also claims other instances indicative of bad character, including Iverson allegedly threatening his wife, Tawanna, that he would offer $5,000 to have her murdered; allegedly telling her he would offer a man $1 million to testify in court that he had slept with her; and allegedly leaving his small children alone in a hotel room all night while he went out drinking.
Babb told Deadspin, "Throughout this entire process, I wanted Iverson to be a good guy who sometimes did bad stuff. But I don't think that's true. In fact, it's probably the opposite."


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When the Instagram @harlowandsage was launched on March 13, 2013, it instantly captured our hearts as it documented the adventures of Harlow, a gentle giant of a Weimaraner, and Sage, her dachshund older sister.
They always had each other's backs.
They cheered each other up on bad days.
And they definitely understood the importance of teatime with the one you love.
They always kept each other warm at night.
But Sage was 13 years old and started having heart problems.
And in September of 2013, Harlow said goodbye to her big sister.
Harlow was heartbroken without her.
Soon after, Harlow found out the news: she was about to become a big sister herself.
Indiana, a dachshund puppy, came into Harlow's life to cheer her up.
They soon became the best of friends.
Their natural goofiness resulted in some absolutely adorable photos.
They definitely wore each other out playing.
Anywhere Harlow went, she took Indiana.
Indiana has a lot to learn in the ways of dog.
Harlow is always ready to tell her a bedtime story.
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We should all be so lucky to have such a great sister or best friend in our lives.
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As a start-up business with no pre-existing branding, the Coffee Cann Cafe's request for a logo came as a welcome challenge. Keeping in mind its many applications (collateral, signage, web, t-shirts, etc.) the client was looking for a "modern, professional, but slightly crunchy" logo. Despite their tight three-week timeframe the end product did not disappoint.
This book explores the relationship between the principles of music and type. Rhythm, melody, harmony – all things that can be represented through both mediums. Delving into typographic experimentation, I found this piece particularly enjoyable to create. Limited to a minimal number of copies, the "hand-sized" dimensions and thick, toothy surface of the paper added an unexpected tactile dimension.
The idea of "motion" in a printed pieces is often a moot point, but that's precisely what this piece addressed. The aim was to convey a short story through still images only, highlighting key events and capturing that sense of "sequence." With a hybrid approach of photography and digital illustration, this book achieves that.
Each year Enterprise Bank holds a Celebration of Success to honor its hardworking employees, and each year an accompanying "program book" of sorts is created. Bringing a less formal and more "friendly" feel to this piece, the book was designed with a scrapbook theme, chronicling the people and events that made 2011 one of the client's most successful in recent years.
A personal excercise in "expressive typography," I was experimenting with the idea of non-standard layouts and typography that visually represented the message of the text. The central ideas and existing emotions are brought to the reader's immediate attention through variations in type size, placement, baseline and linelength.
Text excerpted from "Honey From Stone" by Chet Rayno.


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Oskar Palinko and I helped out with UNH High Tech Day, organized by the UNH CS department. We hosted about 100 students from three UNH high schools and discussed our driving simulator-based research.
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Hosting KEEPERS campers – summer 2012
Today Oskar Palinko and I hosted 21 KEEPERS campers in our driving simulator lab. KEEPERS works with kids in grades 2-5. Kids this age have so much enthusiasm – it's fun to talk to them. Next week we get to do it again!


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Tyisms | New Dad
Ty and Jason were out on an adventure tonight and Ty told Jason not to fall down in the sewer and die because it would take his Mama "several days" to find him a new Dad. Jason and I both aren't quite sure how to feel about this!
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Ashley is a thirty-something wife and mother of two boys. She enjoys spending time with her family, as well as reading and decorating their home. Her blogging adventures began in 2006 as a single mother and have carried on through marriage and a new life with a husband, a ten-year-old, and an infant.
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Moon of Alabama — July 6, 2017
A wide review of news sources finds an undeniable patter of international "Russian hacking" claims:
- Many, if not all such accusation, are based on say-so by some anonymous "official" or self-promoting "expert".
- Many, if not all such accusation, are rebutted within a few days or weeks.
- News about any alleged "Russian hacking" is widely distributed and easy to find.
- News of the debunking of such claims is reported only sparsely (if at all) and more difficult to retrieve.
- Russia hacked into Ukraine artillery units, report claims, CBCnews – Dec 22 2016
- Ukraine's military denies Russian hack attack, AFP – Jan 6 2017
United States
- Russian operation hacked a Vermont utility, showing risk to U.S. electrical grid security, officials say, WaPo – Dec 31 2016
- Russian government hackers do not appear to have targeted Vermont utility, say people close to investigation, WaPo – Jan 2 2017
- Sicherheitskreise: Russland hackte geheime Bundestagsakten (Russia hacked secret parliament papers), FAZ – Dec 11 2016
- Quelle für Enthüllungen im Bundestag vermutet (Internal source suspected in parliament leaks), FAZ – Dec 17 2016
- Russian Hackers Are Targeting Germany Now, Too, Wired – Dec 10 2016
- German Intelligence Agencies Find No Evidence Of Russian Interference, Newsweek – Feb 7 2017
- Cyberattack on French presidential front-runner bears Russian 'fingerprints,' research group says, WaPo – Apr 25 2017
- France Says No Trace of Russian Hacking Macron, AP – Jun 1 2017
- CNN Exclusive: US suspects Russian hackers planted fake news behind Qatar crisis, CNN – Jun 7, 2017
- Qatar says news agency hacking linked to states boycotting Doha, Reuters – Jun 20 2017
United Kingdom
- Cyber-attack on UK parliament: Russia is suspected culprit, Guardian – Jun 25 2017
- Private not state hackers likely to have targeted UK parliament: sources, Reuters – Jul 6 2017
The undeniable patter of "Russian hacking" is that any claim thereof is likely not true and will be debunked in due time.
These remarks on the "Russian hacking" allegation in relation to the U.S. election are therefore quite appropriate:
President Trump again cast a skeptical eye on intelligence community assessments that Russia interfered with the 2016 presidential election, saying Thursday while on a visit to Poland that "nobody really knows for sure" what happened.
Trump also compared the intelligence about Russian interference with the faulty assessment that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction in 2002, which provided President Bush with a justification to go to war.
"Guess what, they were wrong, and that led to one big mess," he said.


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A new scientific research has proved that dried tree leaves can convert into carbon material. And due to pores in this material, we can use this material to make many high-tech electronic devices. We can make super capacitors from this carbon material. These capacitors will store energy 10-100 times greater than common capacitors. Thus, these can cater high energy needs of many people. This high energy makes it ideal for hybrid vehicles and computer technology.
The scientists have conducted research at Qilu University in China. They have given the detailed steps of this process. This process is very simple but has many steps. They have used the leaves of the Phoenix trees. The process starts with grounding the dried leaves to make a powder. This powder will turn into carbon spheres after heating at 220-degree centigrade for 12 hours. These carbon micro spheres can turn into capacitors after treatment with Potassium Hydroxide at high temperatures.
These capacitors have super porous surface because of this chemical treatment. The end product has a very high surface area due to many pores in it. The high surface area gives it electrical properties. They have published the whole research in Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy. The researchers have conducted a series of electrochemical tests to check their potential for storing energy.
These electrochemical tests prove that this material can make good capacitors. Further tests prove that these are super capacitors with 367-gramme capacitance. We can widely use these capacitors as electrical components. These capacitors have three times higher capacitance than graphene super capacitors.
This research on Bio mass will open new horizons of research on such materials. The core of the research will be to convert bio mass into porous carbon material.


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Friday, April 1, 2011
Happy April Fools' Day!
Doesn't that spaghetti look tasty? It's the best kind of spaghetti - the cupcake kind! I think mine looks a little more like linguini, but at least it's still a pasta! I decided to make something for April Fool's day this year because I found so many cute ideas in my "Hello, Cupcake!" book! I couldn't get over the cuteness of the little Ferrero Rocher meatballs! If you don't already have a copy of the "Hello Cupcake!" book, here are the instructions for the Spaghetti & Meatballs cupcakes:
10 Vanilla cupcakes
1 Can vanilla frosting
1/2 teaspoon unsweetened cocoa powder
3 drops yellow food coloring
11 Ferrero Rocher chocolates
3/4 cup low sugar strawberry preserves (the book says the low sugar has the best "sauce" color!)
2 tablespoons of grated white chocolate
First, mix the cocoa powder and yellow food coloring into the frosting. Then, spread a little bit of the frosting on the tops of your cupcakes. Make sure all your cupcakes are touching!
Place the remaining frosting in a ziplock bag and seal it. Snip a tiny, tiny bit from the corner of the ziplock bag. Squeeze the frosting all over the cupcakes and make it look nice and noodle-y!
Put the ferrero rochers into a bowl and add the strawberry preserves and mix it around. Then, I took a little extra sauce from the jar and put a small spoonfull on top of each cupcake and placed a meatball on top of it.
Top with some grated white chocolate and you have yourself a big place of sweet spaghetti goodness!
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Date: April 18 – May 29, 2018
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Artists: Aline Bouvy, Florence Giroud, Eva L'Hoest, Xavier Mary & Loup Sarion, Bela Pablo Janssen, Thomas Zipp
Exhibition title: A Last Song for the Titanic Orchestra
Curated by: Diesel Project Space
Venue: 019, Ghent, Belgium
Date: November 19, 2016
Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artists, Diesel Project Space and 019
Artists: Daniele Milvio, Olga Pedan, Matthieu Haberard, Micah Hesse, Stefan Fuchs, Bianca Bondi, Rosa Aiello, Aline Bouvy, Sandra Vaka Olsen, Clément Roche, Kareem Lotfy, Nuno Patrício, Antoine Donzeaud, Dominic Samsworth, Dorota Gaweda & Eglé Kulbokaité, Hilda Stammarnäs, Agata Ingarden, Austin Lee, Chris Lecler, Yorgos Stamkopoulos, Hubert Marot, Strauss Bourque Lafrance, Loup Sarion, Sean Raspet, Bending Binding, Liesl Raff & Christoph Meier, Mathis Collins
Exhibition title: A Thousand Friends (part 2)
Curated by: Elisa Rigoulet
Venue: New Jörg, Vienna, Austria
Date: September 9 – 23, 2016
Photography: Georg Petermichl, all images copyright and courtesy of the artists and New Jörg
Artists: Hadrien Gerenton, Micah Hesse, Rachel Koolen, Irina Lotarevich, Julien Meert, Loup Sarion Exhibition title: Straddle The Line Between Form And Function Venue: Galerie Jérôme Pauchant, Paris, France Date: June 17 – July 25, 2015 Photography: images copyright and courtesy of the artists and Galerie Jérôme Pauchant, Paris To straddle the line between form and function, and not to follow the modernist corollary, which implies that form follows function. As a result of a functionalist ideology stating that the beauty of a produced object comes from its ability to adapt to its function, this concept remains enchanted by the notion of Beauty and imprisoned in rapture for the noble things present in this world. The […]
Artists: Stefania Batoeva, Béla Pablo Janssen, Aude Pariset, Loup Sarion, Adrien Vescovi, Mathias Wille Exhibition title: My Internet Was Down For 5 Minutes So I Went Downstairs And Spoke To My Family. They Seem Like Nice People Venue: Jeanroch Dard, Brussels, Belgium Date: January 24 – February 22, 2015 Photography: Hugard&Vanoverschelde. Courtesy of Galerie Jeanrochdard, Brussels Networked communication, networked games, dating sites, the feeling of closeness, networks of friends, a big virtual family, online information, google search, key word + key word, google image. Control click > Save image as… The exhibiting artists manipulate and push image functions in view of their mass circulation, to explore their malfunctions and the ever growing vacuity […]


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Volunteer Required! - Standard Plant Life Forms
Do you have an interest in the Flora of SA? The Bushland Condition Monitoring program needs someone to help compile a table of 'standard life forms' for all the species in the Flora of SA for its database of vegetation condition. Many of the well known species and families will be quite straightforward, but some will require a bit of research through the hard-copy Flora of South Australia or other plant identification books. The basic life form categories will be: 1. Tree 2. Shrub 3. Mat Plant 4. Herb 5. Grass 6. Sedge 7. Vine/ Climber 8. Mistletoe 9. Fern.
This will assist us to produce vegetation condition site reports with species automatically listed by life-form rather than simply alphabetically, which can currently be hard to interpret if you are not familiar with all the species names concerned.
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- Love of plants and botanical research
- Attention to detail
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text: Community Groups Meckering MAG (Meckering Action Group) c/o Post Office Meckering WA 6405. President: Neil Carter 9625 1208. Meetings first Tuesday of each month at 7.30pm at the Meckering Sporting Club in Dempster St. Memorial Rose Garden Sandie Laird c/o Post Office Meckering WA 6405. Phone: 9625 1325. Mereki PO Box 99 Meckering WA 6405. President: Denise Richardson - Phone: 9625 1272. Meetings last Thursday of each month at 7.30pm at Church Hall in Byfield Street, Meckering. Meckering Play Group Contact: Louise Snooke - Phone: 9625 1390. Meeting every Friday morning 9.30 – 11.30am at the Meckering Primary School (excepting school holidays). Meckering P & C C/- Post Office, Meckering WA 6405. President: Jeff Snooke Ph: 9625 1379.


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Oldshoremore beach, from Eilean na h-Eitaig. May Day Bank Holiday, 2010.
Eilean na h-Eitaig.
Eilean an Roin Mor.
A nighttime view of the harbour.
The church, Kinlochbervie. One of 32 built to the same design by Thomas Telford
Looking down at Polin Beach.
Looking west along Polin Beach.
Looking east along Polin Beach.
This superb view of Kinlochbervie was taken by Sarah Bell, of the Kinlochbervie Hotel.
Stunning sunset over Loch Clash, Kinlochbervie.
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Tue, 24 November 2015
In this episode we flashback to a moment in time where 2 podcasts met up in a hotel room in the middle of portland to...you guessed it...PODCAST!
This episode is pretty important to me because not only are we podcasting with Diamond Minds (Dave and Paul) but for the first time ever, both Dougie and Althea, the behind the scenes staples of Monkey Poo Studios are with us to podcast. Live and in person.
This originally aired on the Diamond Minds feed but I wanted to share this episode on the 7 Days a Geek feed as well.
Thanks for listening and for all of your support people!
Support the show www.patreon.com/monkeypoostudios
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Wednesday, May 31, 2017
The Truth about Outsourcing
One of the reasons Trump was elected was to stop the outsourcing of jobs we have seen from Western countries. We have the deadly combination of importing the Third World, as we export our jobs.
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Pertaining to web services, Secure-Adaptive Architecture (SAA) refers to a particular approach towards the security management issues inherent in data transfer over computer networks, relating to certain services, such as micropayments.
Minimalist Approach
In SAA, personal information (such as an end-user's name, banking information, or personal identity numbers such as Social Security numbers) is not retained. This has two main benefits: For the end-user, the chance of identity theft and fraud is considerably reduced. For the service provider, it means that direct communication with the end-user's financial institution is uncessecary.
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SAA uses "best in class" proven security techniques to ensure the safe transfer of data through network resources. These include protocols such as SSL communications, client-side authentication and AES encryption.
SAA requires consistent and pervasive, real-time monitoring of network resources to ensure security.


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Set Physical Fitness Goals And Reach Then By Following These TipsAs you get older it is very important to maintain a good level of fitness. In this article we will show you different ways in which you can keep yourself in good shape. Apply the following advice on fitness to your every day life, so as you age, you can better adapt to the changes in your body.
Motivation is often a problem when people exercise, especially if you exercise alone. Find an audio version of a book that you really want to read and listen to it only when you exercise. Wanting to find out what happens next will motivate you to work out longer and more often.
Do not weight train two days in a row. When exercising your muscles, be careful about working particular muscle groups too often and too much. After weight training, allow your muscles at least 48 hours to recover. Anything more does more harm than good. http://felonyenergy05randy.onesmablog.com/Keeping-Yourself-In-Good-Shape-Is-A-Snap-8452626 won't see any favorable results.
Listen to your body when exercising. kinohimitsu collagen benefits and there is quite normal, especially if you have started a new kind of workout. Continuous pain is a different matter altogether. It is your body's way of telling you that you have overdone things, and are in danger of injuring yourself, maybe seriously. Rather than self-medicating with aspirin or another type of pain reliever, visit your doctor.
When trying to be physically fit, cardiovascular exercise should be a part of your fitness routine. Any type of movement that gets your heart beating fast (running, riding a bike) will help to burn calories, and keep off unwanted fat. Cardiovascular exercise will help keep your body healthy and strong.
Hiking is a great way to stay fit without having to spend a day at the gym. A state park is a great place to hike, sinc most of them have well groomed, predesignated trails. Not only will you get a cardiovascular workout, but there's a good chance you will also take in some spectacular views.
Getting a punching bag or rubber human shaped punching target can provide an outlet for stress as well as a way to work on ones personal fitness. The punching will work out ones upper body including biceps, triceps, and deltoids. One will appreciate their punching bag the next time they need to let off some steam.
Taking hikes is a good way to improve many aspects of fitness. Hiking will improve strength in ones legs as well as improving ones cardiovascular system. Hiking can also have the added benefit of being a good stress reliever. Also one can adjust the difficulty by adding or removing weight in a backpack.
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When playing football, a great tip to help you get open for a pass is to run as close as you can get to your defender. This is because as you get closer, it becomes easier to run past him to get open. As you get closer to him, you should shorten your strides without decreasing your speed. visit here will assist you in cutting quicker.
To build strength, quickly lift light weights. Working quickly will allow your muscles to use as much energy as they would if you were lifting heavier weights at a slower rate. For example, on bench press, lift forty to sixty percent of your max weight and do eight sets of three repetitions, doing this as quickly as you can.
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As this article mentioned, fitness is a very involved subject. However, if you do not mind hard work, you can easily achieve your goals. Do not become too focused on any one aspect of getting fit; keep your eyes on the big picture and learn to love your body and treat it with respect by applying the tips you have read!


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John Murdock (Mormon)
John Murdock (July 15, 1792 – December 23, 1871) was an early convert to the Latter Day Saint movement and was a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). He is mentioned twice in the Doctrine and Covenants. He was also the first mission president for the LDS Church in Australia.
Murdock was born in Shell Beach, New York.
Prior to joining the Latter Day Saint Church of Christ, Murdock had belonged to many churches. First he had affiliated with the Dutch Lutheran Church. He next became a Methodist. He also was for a short time part of a Baptist congregation, which he left because he did not agree with their support of Calvinist doctrines. In 1827, Murdock joined the Campbellites.[1] His falling out with the Campbellites was largely due to Alexander Campbell rejecting the gift of the Holy Ghost.[1]
Murdock was baptized a member of the Church of Christ in November 1830. At this time, he lived in Geauga County, Ohio.[2]
In 1831 Murdock accompanied Hyrum Smith on a mission to Pontiac, Michigan.[3][4] They had been commanded to take this general route in Doctrine and Covenants 52:8. From April 1831 until he went with Zion's Camp in April 1834, Murdock spent almost all his time as a traveling missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.[5]
Murdock served several missions for the church in the early years. After his first wife (Julia Clapp Murdock) died, Joseph Smith and his wife Emma adopted Murdock's newborn twins, Joseph and Julia.[6]
In a revelation of Smith's recorded in Doctrine and Covenants 99:1, Murdock is commanded to go to the eastern United States and declare the gospel "from house to house, from village to village and from city to city."
Murdock served in Zion's Camp. Before he joined Zion's Camp he was one of the elders who attempted to recruit people to join it. On March 17, 1834, he was at a conference at Avon, New York, attempting to convince the local members of the church to join the Zion's Camp effort.[7]
After Zion's Camp, Murdock also served on the high councils in Far West and later, in Salt Lake City, Utah. He also served as a bishop in Nauvoo and Salt Lake City.
In 1851, Murdock went to Australia as the first Latter-day Saint missionary sent to Australia since William Barratt in 1840.[8] Murdock was accompanied on this mission by Charles Wandell. They first preached in Sydney and also traveled to the immediate vicinity of the area. He gave his first sermon in Australia on November 2, 1851, at the site of the Old Sydney Race Course.[9]
His son John R. Murdock led more Mormon pioneer down-and-back companies than anyone else.
Murdock died in Beaver, Utah Territory.
- ^ a b Roger R. Keller, "Prepared for the Fulness", Ensign, January 1993.
- ^ Lavina Fielding Anderson, "Kirtland's Resolute Saints", Ensign, January 1979.
- ^ Mormon History Gazetteer for Illinois (1831–1839) at "Saints Without Halos"
- ^ James E. Faust, "'Some Great Thing'", Liahona, January 2002.
- ^ Olsen, "I Quit Other Business"
- ^ Jerry C. Roundy, "The Greatness of Joseph Smith and His Remarkable Visions", New Era, December 1973.
- ^ Mormon History Gazetteer for New York (1831–1839) at "Saints Without Halos"
- ^ Loren C. Dunn, "Did Not Our Heart Burn Within Us?", Ensign, May 1977.
- ^ Lynda Baker and Marjorie Newton, "Temple Crowns Growth in Australia", Ensign, September 1984.
- Deseret News Church Almanac, 2005 ed., p. 291.
- Esshom, Frank Ellwood (1913), "Murdock, John", Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah, Salt Lake City: Utah Pioneers Book Publishing Company, p. 1050, OCLC 2286984 .
- Craig J. Osler, "John Murdock", Encyclopedia of Latter-day Saint History, p. 804.
- Marjorie B. Newton, "Australia's Pioneer Saints", Ensign, February 1997.
- Lisa Olsen Tait. "I Quit Other Business: Early Missionaries" essay published by the Church History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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"Considering the potential outcome of the Libyan rebellion is a government even worse for the United States than the incompetency that dominates Gadhafi's government now, creating a no fly zone over Libya- and any military intervention for that matter- is potentially counterproductive to long term American national security goals and our interests in the region. Better the revolution play itself out and America be able to make peace with whatever government takes over than we potentially back the losing side and alienate all parties while doing so.
But what's worse is that some American politicians would have us risk American military lives to support a rebellion which A. might not even be ultimately successful and B. if it is successful, might be just as anti-American and anti-democracy as the demagogue who rules the country now. I've argued before that the United States should have a non-interventionist foreign policy generally, but nowhere is this suggestion wiser than in the current instance of Libya.
With oil and gas prices rising as quickly as they are here in America, oil must be a very real aspect of any military or non-military decision we make in the region, but a $1 increase in the price of gas per gallon may not be worth the decades of ill sentiment our government may create if it intervenes in Libya and not in other countries as well. The complexity and unpredictability of the Libyan conflict necessitates that America adopt a non-interventionist policy and permit natural events to take their course there. (1)"
We can clearly see that intervening in Libya is disadvantageous. Now I'd like to clarify: I'm perfectly human. I feel for these people too. But even though people are dying, we need to look before we leap. Intervening in affairs of other countries is what made the Soviet Union and US so hostile towards each other. My opponent must adequately respond to these arguments and show that:
1. More people will die if we don't intervene (which I already proved the opposite)
2. Americans won't die (Impossible to prove)
3. Intervening in other countries is fine. (Again, if he says it's fine it's a falsehood)
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1. Regardless what Gaddafi says, he will still slaughter thousands, and most will be innocent civilians. This will undoubtedly escale into a legitimate civil war instead of a civil uprising. Gaddafi. Is determined to exterminate anybody that opposes him regardless of the consequences and I will go as far as to say that he is worse than Saddam Hussein, but unlike Hussein, Libya is producing weapons of mass destruction. If anybody sits by and watches this they will regret not intervening sooner when he turns those weapons against his own people.
2. As to American casualties, nothing will prevent that no matter how hard we try no matter what happens their will be blood spilled on any side, we do have troops in the red sea, specifically in the Suez Canal, and to instigate us into joining the war they will attack our naval fleet. The U.S. has already chosen a side which is that of the opposition, all they need is an excuse to go in now, regardless, as I mentioned before sides have been chosen and american lives will be on the line whether we we go in or not.
3. America is the world police, its a reputation that we have had since WWI. And we will always have to live up to that reputation for one reason and one reason only, as you said before, National Security and Interest. No matter what we do America will always be the world's watchdog, its just how it is nothing we do or say will change that. The U.S. is a country that depends on foreign oil, so in order to protect our interest abroad in the middle east we must intervene, wheter it be a military or diplomatic and economic intervention.
I never said it had to be military intervention, it could be an embargo, a ship blockade or what is most likely gonna happen, a no fly zone. But without war there can not be peace in this world, even if it is short lived.
Although, clearly, my opponent knows that my arguments are correct judging by his statement.
Let's move on to address his responses.
1. Yes, I am quite aware he's going to kill people. But as I stated, do you really want to add Americans to his list? Secondly, my opponent said Libya is "producing" WMD's. That means they don't have any now. Since weapons of mass destruction take years to create, this crisis will be long over by that time. My opponent needs to prove that this will actually be a problem. (And anyways my point about americans dying still applies, and even more in this case).
2. This response doesn't even make sense. My opponent is saying that if we do not attack Americans will still die. How does this make sense? Also, Libya doesn't want us to join into this because they know we can crush them. I know that we have chosen the rebellion's side, but we still haven't gone in. As long as we don't go in, no Americans will die. If the Libyans attack our fleet, that means we are officially in the war. If they don't attack, no Americans will die and we're not in the war. Which is my position. I still don't see how American blood will be spilt even if we keep our distance.
3. "America is the world police" I am quite aware of that. "We will always have to live up to that reputation" Nope. We don't. Libya is not a threat to our National Security. So we don't have to go in. Our National Security IS threatened if we DO go in, though. "We are dependant on Foreign oil" My evidence directly refuted that. Just cross-Apply the evidence I read. Remember, Evidence is > than logic. My opponent needs to provide evidence directly refuting mine or else I win this debate.
"Never said it will be military intervention"
A ship blockade. A no fly zone. Sir, that IS military intervention.
"Without war we cannot have peace"
This is not OUR war. It's Libya's war. If Gaddafi was shooting nukes at us it would our war, but it isn't. It has nothing to do with OUR peace.
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