I’m beginning to think that Copenhagen was what it had to be, what it could only be. It fulfilled its Buddha-nature. Thus, I don’t consider it a failure. Nor do I consider it a success. It was what it was, what it could have been, what it had to be: A gathering of emissaries from [...]
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According to United Press International: Christine Levinson (L), wife of an ex-FBI agent Robert Levinson who disappeared in Iran in March 2007, her son Daniel (C), and her sister Susan are seen after arriving at Imam Khomeini International Airport in Tehran, Iran on December 18, 2007. Robert Levinson went missing while on a business trip [...]
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From the Miami Herald: U.S. steps up pressure on Iran over missing ex-FBI agent, by Lesley Clark of the McClatchy Newspapers: WASHINGTON — The White House and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton upped the pressure Thursday on Iran to divulge any information it has about Robert Levinson, a retired FBI agent who went missing from [...]
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The Kaiser Family Foundation has created a web page which permits side-by-side comparisons of every health-care proposal currently on the table, including that by U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT via full the last airbender film hd buy konferenz der tiere the movie Brooklyn, New York) and that of the Republican Study Group. I note those [...]
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Zero Geography reports on a real-time game using GPS devices which has – for our purposes, interesting applications for coordinating SAR or other response efforts. From Zero Geography: GPS Real-World Gaming in Hybrid Space. watch life as we know it online watch life as we know it online A real-time, multiplayer, GPS game for mobiles [...]
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We’ve come across RuggedNotebooks.com, a supplier of laptop computers and PDAs to public and private users of data devices whose equipment must survive drops, immersion, humidity, sand, and extreme heat. (MILSPEC 810F, effective, January 1, 2000). 1. RuggedNotebooks makes three models of rugged PDA – and for anyone who’s counting, that’s 50% more models of PDA [...]
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Earlier today one of my friends handed me a copy of some satire published in the New York Post, a tabloid in the tradition of the London rags, on the subject of “Climate-Gate.” At about the same time, Roger Saillant, co-author of Vapor Trails, who heads the Fowler Center for Sustainable Value at Case Western [...]
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French army sides with Mozilla in Microsoft email war (Reuters) – via Open Source Pixels. Reuters takes a look at the use of Thunderbird by the French military. “The military found Mozilla’s open source design permitted France to build security extensions, while Microsoft’s secret, proprietary software allowed no tinkering. “We started with a military project, [...]
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Sierra Trading Post, on any given day a place to find high-end gear and clothing at low-end prices, is having a one-day sale with an additional 40% off of 4,000 items. Sierra Trading Post’s stock – from my viewing of it – is usually very high-end outdoors gear and clothing, sometimes in last years colors, [...]
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Solar Kinetics’ Single-Element Stretched- Membrane Dish. 7 Meter diameter. Image via Wikimedia Commons. We’re trying to sort out if this is the same Solar Kinetics firm responsible for the Electric 7 electric vehicle design. (Images of and explanation of construction process here). Following are some images of a completed Electric 7: More images of the [...]
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Larry D. Moore’s image of another interesting solar panel configuration in Austin, Texas. Image dated September, 20009. You can find a higher-resolution image – and other excellent images on a variety of subjects in his Wikimedia Commons Gallery. Assuming, for argument’s sake, that the configuration has no effect (in either direction) on efficiency. Since we’re [...]
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Frrom the Times coverage by (Ginger Thompson and David Johnston) of the prosecution of David C. Headley, an American citizen who has been accused of assisting in the 2008 Mumbai attacks. The suspect, David C. Headley of Chicago, is accused of helping identify targets for a Pakistan-based terrorist group called Lashkar-e-Taiba, whose two-day attack on [...]
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Monica Hesse at the Washington Post reports that a team from MIT has won a DARPA prize for solving a distributed problem with a team/network that was partly ad hoc. TheDARPA Network Challengerequired teams to locate 10 weather balloons located around the country. From Hesse’s article, “Spy vs. spy on Facebook:” In DARPA’s Network Challenge, [...]
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Jim Edwards reported Friday on BNet that the FDA has all of rwo inspectors in China. From FDA Has Only 2 Inspectors Watching Drug Factories in China. watch toy story 3 film in high quality But the fact that the FDA has just two people to cover a territory 3.7 million square miles in size [...]
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Seven Answers to Climate Contrarian Nonsense This article presents and debunks myths about climate change. Evidence for human interference with Earth’s climate continues to accumulate By John Rennie, Scientific American, November 30, 2009 “On November 18, U.S. Sen. James R. Inhofe (R–Okla.) took the floor of the Senate and proclaimed 2009 to be “The Year [...]
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The same messages can be communicated by signalling the letter "K" in Morse code via signal lamp. (While a proper signal lamp may be ideal, a flashlight, probably best employing red LEDs, will certainly fit the bill).
In Morse, the letter "K" is represent as Dash - Dot -- Dash.
The ICS also has a subset, the Medical Signal Code, which uses three-character phrases to communicate brief medical messages.