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POPSCreech Air Force Base: A Place of Disbelief, Confusion and Sadness There is a disturbing contrast between aggressor and victim. The aggressor zooming around Las Vegas in a posh automobile, living a luxurious life style and launching missiles onto a target that is far away and the victim located in a village or inside a building on the Afghanistan Pakistan borders. There are over 200,000 people in internally displaced camps (IDP) in Afghanistan because of US bombardment and war. The number one enemy in Afghanistan is poverty. For many of those holding a presence outside of Creech Air Force Base, there is a look of total disbelief, confusion, and sadness. As the US troop presence in Afghanistan increases, the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) program will ramp up. Read about the actions in the local spotlight here and in the news here.
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POPSExecutioned Police Officers Re-Opens Huckabee's Clemency Record Huckabee was expected to discuss the Clemmons case Monday night during an interview with Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly. Clemmons was among 1,033 people who were pardoned or had their sentences reduced during Huckabee's 10 1/2 years as governor, a number that far surpasses that of his three predecessors combined. Bill Clinton, Frank White and Jim Guy Tucker granted 507 clemencies in the 17 1/2 years they served. Beebe, Huckabee's Democratic successor, has issued 273 commutations and pardons since taking office in January 2007—all but one of them were pardons after the completion of the inmates' prison terms.
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POPSDelta Airzound Bike Horn More, from the comments: Easily the most useful gadget I've ever bought for my bike. Commuting to and from school in NYC, it sees daily use, especially since a good number of pedestrians cross against the light, or in the middle of the street without looking for whats coming first, and a lot of drivers have a bad habit of checking their mirrors after they've already started turning. Also extremely effective at clearing pigeons on the road, which aren't always afraid of people. The only problem that I've had with it is that in dusty conditions, dirt can find its way inside and prevent the diaphragm from vibrating properly, which is most likely the problem that Narwhal was having. But this is why the cover over the diaphragm can be unscrewed and the dirt cleaned out. I usually have to do that after about a month of normal use.
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POPS The Truth May Be … Out There Anyway, I don’t know if there was a publicity-grabbing hoax plotted, or if an opportunity was seized on the fly, or if it all innocently happened the way Balloon Dad says it did. But whatever happened yesterday, I have a sneaking suspicion the flying Jiffy Pop balloon was not originally conceived, built and being tested as an innovative commuting vehicle. It’s not for nothing Shepard Smith and everyone else was comparing that thing to a UFO yesterday. Maybe, like the Richard Dreyfuss character in ”Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” Richard Heene was just strangely compelled to make his experimental 3DLAV commuting device look like a traditional Roswell-inspired flying saucer hoax.
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POPSSome Advice on Biking to Work These are some pretty good comments about commuters and biking to work. I would agree with most of these. I would also hope you are able to have a shower at work once you get there. OR, at least give yourself about 15 minutes to sit and cool off before you start your shift. And Christy has suggested have some alcohol wipes to clean your body. The alcohol acts as a coolant as it evaporates on your skin, and the wipes will help you clean up - in case you get a bit 'ripe' from the ride. This article is definitely a good read.
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POPSBrain Develops Motor Memory For Prosthetics Stunning new research now reveals that the brain can also achieve this motor memory with a prosthetic device, providing hope that physically disabled people can one day master control of artificial limbs with greater ease
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POPSThe commuting paradox I figured out a long time ago that I hate (hate hate HATE) commuting. A 40% raise would not be nearly enough to compensate me for adding an hour to my commute. (As it is, we live two miles from my work. I can take the bus, ride a bike, or walk. It's great.)
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POPSVirtual Planetary Telescope: To Be Built on the World's 2.5 Billion Cellphones While GPS location is the key for many applications, exposing it is a major threat for privacy purposes. Location privacy needs to be addressed to make users comfortable with the telescope. These and many other questions related to security, incentives, data-mining, etc. need to be resolved for a fully functional, Internet-deployable, system.
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POPSIn German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars From the article: "Levittown and Scarsdale, New York suburbs with spread-out homes and private garages, were the dream towns of the 1950s and still exert a strong appeal.But some new suburbs may well look more Vauban-like, not only in developed countries but also in the developing world, where emissions from an increasing number of private cars owned by the burgeoning middle class are choking cities."
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POPSgot nature? why you need to get out in 2007 it was estimated that more than half of the world's population lived in urban areas-rather than rural- for the first time in human history-animals takn out of their natural habitats can start to degrade mentally and physically-parenting skills decline, aggression increases and playful activity stops. some of these same symptoms can be seen in particularly stressed human populations- nature is kinder to our craniums
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POPSWhen All You Have Left Is Your Pride Not for me, depression down that road. Have to do something constructive that showed me I had other skills. For ages we have heard of would-be golfers driving around because they can't afford to be a member. I suppose this idea is similar. Pride is important.
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POPS Carbon-Capped Nation life support for American automobile manufacturers. Will it turn out to be a rare orphan of a machine? Waiting for revival of the housing sector likewise ignores the real shock that energy constraints imposed on commuters to the suburbs. The large house and long commute that underlay the past evolution of America's residential capital stock presumed the continued availability of cheap energy. Joseph Cortright provides a persuasive paper attributing the collapse of housing prices to the rise of gasoline prices. All indications suggest that prices fell in proportion to the distances of houses from the central business districts of the cities in which their occupants worked. Carbon caps will now stifle further investment in energy infrastructure, promote expectations of high fuel prices to come, and depress incomes. The roomy house in the suburbs seems unlikely to recover its lost value, or even hold its present residual value, in a carbon-capped nation.
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POPSCalifornia paid for top officials' free rides Carrie Lopez, director of the Department of Consumer Affairs, charged taxpayers to fly from Sacramento, where she works, to Los Angeles, where she lives, to attend a Justin Timberlake concert with her daughter. Lopez also billed the state for meals on days she received those meals for free from corporations, according to state records.
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POPSNeed a Ride? Check Your iPhone "A FREE ride-sharing application for the iPhone, Carticipate (www.carticipate.com), was released in October, and already has had more than 10,000 downloads, said Steffen Frost, chief executive of Carticipate in San Francisco." Great idea!!
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POPSSafety lighting for bicyclists This light illuminates the rider's legs as they pedal, to make it easier for drivers to realize "oh, hey, that's a bike up there, maybe I shouldn't drive into it."
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