“Microsoft sells different flavors of soda. Apple sells water, coffee, tea, beer, wine, vodka, cheese, meats, breads, … and it also sells soda.” Stock Price and Corporate Valuations On Oct. 28, 2010, Apple closed at 305.24, about 4% below its the historic high of 319, reached on October 18, 2010. Apple’s earnings per share, EPS, [...]
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After four known infant deaths, the first in 2003, Rubbermaid – the parent company of Graco Children’s Products – has recalled two million strollers, manufactured until 2007, with many believed to still be in use. Graco Recalls Strollers on Strangulation Concerns, by Andrew Martin in the New York Times on October 21st: Doug McGraw, Graco’s [...]
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Which is to say the distributed network matters as much as the renewable sources. From Generate Electricity Everywhere: Problem Establishing local-scale power near end users ranks high on everyone’s spec list for Grid 2.0. That’s one reason Obama’s stimulus plan contains a grant that will reimburse property owners for 30 percent of the cost of [...]
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This is encouraging. Although not without limitations, and still in early days, the U.S. government is using a wiki to share and analyze intelligence: Intellipedia is an online system for collaborative data sharing used by the United States Intelligence Community (IC). It was established as a pilot project in late 2005 and formally announced in [...]
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Conferences – In New Bedford, Mass, the Marion Institute presents Bioneers by the Bay. Van Jones delivered the keynote. I was there last year. It was great. In Washington, DC, The Green Festival. A friend of mine from the Pentagon will be there. In Long Branch, NJ, The Social Venture Network Fall Invitational. Ralph Meima, [...]
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If you think there are zero direct emissions from the production of electricity from PV solar modules, YOU’RE ABSOLUTELY CORRECT. There are however, indirect emissions associated with production, transport, installation and refresh / recycle are dependent on the technologies used in those processes. Most are associated with the use of fossil fuels and nuclear power [...]
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How’s about some arsenic? Whadda ya mean “toxic?” You got a problem wid my pizza pie? Check out the Slice web-site at Serious Eats. Their Coal-Oven Pizzeria map shows about 20 coal-oven pizzerias in the New York City metropolitan area. While a coal fire may produce a perfect heat for baking pizzas, coal fires also [...]
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This poster, by Robert Lachenman for the Work Projects Administration Federal Art Project, circa 1937 is impressive, we think, on its own terms – design and effectiveness. But the date – 1937 – was a surprise, and now it’s clear we have much to learn about alcohol-driving and other alcohol-plus risk activity/drug plus risk activity [...]
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The good news is that newly discovered bacteria biodegrade oil in the oceans, and have been chowing down on the oil spilled from the Deepwater Horizon (Earth and Sky, NPR, PBS, SFGATE) and from oil seeps for millions of years. While it’s unexpected and wonderful that bacteria are biodegrading the oil, do we want to [...]
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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.