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World_Economic_Forum ] Davos_Man http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... https://agenda.weforum.org Schwab http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... developed the "stakeholder" management approach http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... which attributed corporate success to managers actively taking account of all interests: not merely shareholders, clients, and customers, but also employees and the communities within which the firm is situated, including governments. [[ the risk that agents will use organizational resource for their own benefit) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... [[[ ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... ? Sort http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

Nic Marks: The Happy Planet Index http://www.ted.com/talks... , Dan Gilbert asks, Why are we happy? http://www.ted.com/talks... , Martin Seligman on positive psychology http://www.ted.com/talks... , Philip Zimbardo prescribes a healthy take on time http://www.ted.com/talks... , - Thomas Page

Auld Lang Syne https://friendfeed.com/citizen... Happy New Year ! - Thomas Page

pstp phil just gov One can contrast cultures of honour with cultures of law. In a culture of law there is a body of laws which must be obeyed by all, with punishments for transgressors. This requires a society with the structures required to enact and enforce laws. A culture of law incorporates an unwritten social contract: members of society agree to give up some aspects of their freedom to defend themselves and retaliate for injuries, on the understanding that transgressors will be apprehended and punished by society. From the viewpoint of anthropology, cultures of honour typically appear among nomadic peoples and herdsmen who carry their most valuable property with them and risk having it stolen, without having recourse to law enforcement or government. pstp ref gov phil - Thomas Page

Theft of tools by lowlife scum calls for ... [ Angry lizard says die you gravy sucking pigs ( 7 -22 2. Retrospective Sympathetic Affections Gratitude. Ingratitude. Forgiveness. Revenge. Jealousy. Envy. - Thomas Page

pstp ag robo Robotic scarecrows http://www.popularmechanics.com/home... (pest deterrence) and herders how to? 5 -15 Robotic (free range) self propelled chicken tractor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... (coop) interacts with Insect tractor (coop) collector attractor of bad insects , self propelled livestock fencing corrals http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... hydrants salt block ect assisted grazing pattern management? Automatic horse wrangling corral.Robotic jockey interface for llamas and mules, (brain interface sci-fic ethics of?). , 2 -23 -13 Robotic Personel Carrier for guard dogs ( 3 -17 sort http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news... ) and or herder dogs ( dogs equipped with communication control camera ... collars interfaces... ) Robotic animal transporters ... , Robotic electric fence http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... movers ( installer, remover, shifter ? team of independent machines? ) ... - Thomas Page

Weed patch robo forage chopper chop gather whole plant seeds and all for compost [ scale? [[ yellow star on ranges and mountains ? Farmstead? [[[ amender reseeder ? {{{{{{ http://friendfeed.com/citizen... sort http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2014... - Thomas Page

Beta , 7 -9 Beta 2.0 http://theplantencyclopedia.org/wiki... , Cultivated plant taxonomy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , 6 -2 -12 Category:Lists of plants http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

Sort Wisconsin_Idea http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... WBUR On Point http://onpoint.wbur.org ] [ Arctic_Apples http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... 2 -22 sort http://www.pbs.org/newshou... - Thomas Page

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Disease_burden http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Years_of_potential_life_lost http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... [ Public Administration vs Scoundrels and BS [[ Terror Kills ? [[[ political will , triumph of the ... [[[[ becoming the enemy , enemy selection psychology - Thomas Page

via http://twitter.com/IsCool [[[[[[ 10 -9 Organization Theories http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

Teamwork ] Groups of smart people can make horrible decisions — or great ones. ... [ 1 -26 making your bed and lying in it ... Truth or Consequences... [[ 1 -27 Last refuge of scoundrels = _ , Isaac Asimov - Wikiquote “Violence,” came the retort, “is the last refuge of the incompetent.”. 1 -27 Manifestos trump performing policy https://friendfeed.com/citizen... Diplomatic sabotage ? https://friendfeed.com/citizen... https://friendfeed.com/citizen... - Thomas Page

Pro Cycling's New Worry: Secret Bike Motors http://www.npr.org/templat... , Gruber Assist 1 English http://www.youtube.com/watch... , Gruber Assist 2 English http://www.youtube.com/watch... , Gruber Assist 3 English http://www.youtube.com/watch... , pstp 8-10 eng KERS http://www.youtube.com/watch... http://www.thekpv.com/ pstp ref bike elec 10 -29 http://www.greencarcongress.com/2010... - Thomas Page

sort misc storm-electric-bike https://www.indiegogo.com/project... Stats quality ? [ Dopers -Enhancement [[ pragmatics - Thomas Page

pstp astro "Our NOON ANALEMMA SUNDIAL is a solar calendar. Each day the sun's path across the sky is a little higher or lower, depending on the season, than it was the day before. The rays of the sun passing through that south-facing circular window (and through the APERTURE in the pointer in that window, called a GNOMON), casts a bright spot on the floor of the INFOSCULPTURE. In the days leading to the summer solstice the spot moves closer and closer to the south wall (each day the sun is rising higher in the sky), and as we move into winter it works its way up toward the north banco (lower in the sky each day). The "lopsided 8" design in the floor of the INFOSCULPTURE is called a NOON ANALEMMA because it is derived from the path of the noontime solar spot throughout the year." , Sundials and Latitude http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Thomas Page

Lunar New Year, date variation, Range Chinese New Year falls on different dates each year, a date between January 21 and February 20 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... ] Fixed_holidays_(on_non-Gregorian_calendars) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... [[[[[[ correlation to Hebrew - Lent events, days variation between lunar new year and ash wednesday ? { Gregorian dates ? [ :Moveable_holidays_(Easter_date_based) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... [({ http://www.interfaithcalendar.org/2015... http://www.naic.edu/~gibson... http://www.aacps.org/admin... http://www.washingtontimes.com/news... [[[[ You'll find that Fat Tuesday http://www.mardigrasneworleans.com/mgdates... can be any Tuesday between Feb. 3 and March 9. Carnival celebration starts on Jan. 6, the Twelfth Night (feast of Epiphany), and picks up speed through midnight on Fat Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday. Feb. 3 and March 9 ~ ~ January 21 and February 20 - Thomas Page

Retrograde Motion http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/olcweb... , pstp space geo astro 6 -18 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , Retrograde Motion and the Opposition of Mars http://www.youtube.com/watch... , Mars in Retrograde Motion http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Thomas Page

Space_rendezvous http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Orbital_mechanics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Astrodynamics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... [[[[[[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

pstp car Lincvolt Rebuild Underway http://www.lincvolt.com/lincvol... 11 -1 sort http://www.avweb.com/blogs... - Thomas Page

http://www.rollingstone.com/music... https://www.goodreads.com/list... [[[[ 10 -17 sort http://loudwire.com/foo-fig... Tony Joe White http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... [[ Pono_(digital_music_service) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... ps6-16 Slash’s Tone Secrets Revealed! http://www.gibson.com/en-us... [[ 9 -11 -14 Don't waste your money on a new set of speakers You get more mileage from a cheap pair of sneakers" Next phase, new wave , dance craze, anyways It's still rock and roll to me "All right, Rico!" http://www.songfacts.com/detail... - Thomas Page

Certified Rhythm Analysis Technician http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... 4 -7 The_Notting_Hillbillies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... https://youtu.be/bIZ7x2m6y2Y http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... ) Pedabro ? http://steelguitarbuilder.com/forum... ] [ Rig Rundown - Vince Gill & Paul Franklin https://youtu.be/phDJy_IiR1Y - Thomas Page

pstp food med sci "Diet and the evolution of the brain Fish and no chips The wonders of docosahexaenoic acid May 27th 2010 | From The Economist print edition Smarter than the average zebra TO PIN one big evolutionary shift on a particular molecule is ambitious. To pin two on it is truly audacious. Yet doing so was just one of the ideas floating around at “A Celebration of DHA” in London this week. The celebration in question was a scientific meeting, rather than a festival. It was definitely, however, a love-in. It was held on May 26th and 27th at the Royal Society of Medicine to discuss the many virtues of docosahexaenoic acid, the most important of that fashionable class of dietary chemicals, the omega-3 fatty acids. DHA is a component of brains, particularly the synaptic junctions between nerve cells, and its displacement from modern diets by the omega-6 acids in cooking oils such as soya, maize and rape is a cause of worry. Many researchers think this shift—and the change in brain chemistry that it causes—explains the growth in recent times of depression, manic-depression, memory loss, schizophrenia and attention-deficit disorder. It may also be responsible for rising levels of obesity and thus the heart disease which often accompanies being overweight. Michael Crawford, a researcher at the Institute of Brain Chemistry and Human Nutrition in London, believes, however, that DHA is even more important than that. He suggests that it was responsible for the existence of nervous systems in the first place, and that access to large quantities of the stuff was what permitted the evolution of big brains in mankind’s more recent ancestors. Fish-eye lenses According to Dr Crawford, DHA’s first job was to convert light into electricity in single-celled organisms. This gave them a crude form of vision, allowing them to move in response to light and shade, but also brought into biology a way of controlling electrical potential. If organisms are to be multicellular, cells must be able to talk to each other. Electrical potentials, the basis of every nervous system, are one way of doing this. And DHA was the enabler. The molecule is certainly ubiquitous. Some 600m years after animals became multicellular, more than half of the fatty-acid molecules in the light-sensitive cells of the human eye are still DHA, and the proportion of DHA in the synapses of the brain is not far short of that, despite the fact that similar molecules are far more readily available. Indeed, Dr Crawford thinks that a shortage of DHA is a long-term evolutionary theme. The molecule is most famously found in fatty fish. He suggests this might explain why, for example, dolphins have brains that weigh 1.8kg whereas zebra brains weigh only 350g, even though the two species have similar body sizes. Furthermore, he argues that the dramatic increase of the size of the brains of humanity’s ancestors that happened about 6m years ago was not because apes came out of the trees to hunt on the savannahs, but because they arrived at the coast and found a ready supply of DHA in fish. Not everyone, it must be said, agrees with this interpretation of history. For one thing, humanity’s ancestors do not seem to have been exclusively coastal. What they do agree about, though, is that substituting DHA with other, superficially similar molecules is a bad idea. Accept no substitute Joseph Hibbeln, a researcher at America’s National Institutes of Health, has been looking at the supply to babies of DHA from breast milk and at genetic variation in the ability to produce this molecule from other omega-3s. A study that began in the early 1990s has shown that children who are breastfed have the same range of IQs, regardless of whether they have the ability to make their own DHA. In the case of those fed on formula milk low in DHA, though, children without the DHA-making ability had an average IQ 7.8 points lower than those with it. Nor is intelligence the only thing affected by a lack of DHA. There is also a body of data linking omega-3 deficiencies to violent behaviour. Countries whose citizens eat more fish (which is rich in DHA) are less prone to depression, suicide and murder. And new research by Dr Hibbeln shows that low levels of DHA are a risk factor for suicide among American servicemen and women. Actual suicides had significantly lower levels of DHA in the most recent routine blood sample taken before they killed themselves than did comparable personnel who remained alive. More worryingly, 95% of American troops have DHA levels that these results suggest put them at risk of suicide. America’s department of defence has taken note. It will soon unveil a programme to supplement the diets of soldiers with omega-3s. The country’s Food and Drug Administration may change one of its policies, too. Thomas Brenna, a professor of nutrition at Cornell University, has written a letter (co-signed by many of the scientists at the meeting) urging the agency to revise its advice to pregnant and fertile women that they limit their consumption of fish. This advice, promulgated in 2004, was intended to protect fetuses from the malign effects of methyl mercury, which accumulates in fish such as tuna. The signatories argue that this effect is greatly outweighed by the DHA-related benefits of eating fatty fish. They may, however, be swimming against the tide. The popularity of omega-6-rich foods based on cheap vegetable oils will be difficult to reverse. Indeed, if another of Dr Hibbeln’s studies proves true of people as well as rodents, it may be self-fulfilling. In this experiment he fed rats diets that were identical except that in one case 8% of the calories came from linoleic acid (an omega-6 fatty acid) while in the other that value was 1%. These percentages reflect the shift in the proportion of omega-6s in the American diet between 1909 and the early 21st century. In the 8% diet, levels of rat obesity doubled. It turns out that in rats (and also in humans) linoleic acid is converted into molecules called endocannabinoids that trigger appetite. Those who eat omega-6s, in other words, want to eat more food. And since, in the human case, omega-6-rich food is much cheaper than omega-3-rich food, that is what they are likely to consume. The way out of this vicious circle is not obvious. Eating fish is all very well, but the oceans are under enough pressure as it is. Biotechnology might be brought to bear—creating genetically modified crops such as soyabeans with higher levels of DHA. Until that day, though, the best advice is probably that which was posted over the oracle at Delphi: “Nothing in excess”." , 6 -11 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/cr... - Thomas Page

Blubber http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Marine_mammal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... sort [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... 9 -23 sort butter http://www.foodbeast.com/news... https://friendfeed.com/citizen... 12 -4 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

"A space elevator is a 65,000-mile tether upon which we can launch things into space in a slow, safe, and cheap way. And these climbers don’t even need to carry their energy as you can use solar panels to provide the energy for the climbers. All this means you need much less fuel. Everything is fully reusable, so when you have built such a system, it is easy to have daily launches. The first elevator’s climbers will travel into space at just a few hundred miles per hour — a very safe speed. Building a device which can survive the acceleration and jostling is a large part of the expense of putting things into space today. This technology will make it hundreds, and eventually thousands of times cheaper to put things, and eventually people, into space. A space elevator might sound like science fiction, but like many of the ideas of science fiction, it is a fantasy that makes economic sense. While you needn’t trust my opinion on whether a space elevator is feasible, NASA has never officially weighed in on the topic — they haven’t given it enough serious consideration. This all may sound like science fiction, but compared to the technology of the 1960s, when mankind first embarked on a trip to the moon, a space elevator is simple for our modern world to build. In fact, if you took a cellphone back to the Apollo scientists, they’d treat it like a supercomputer and have teams of engineers huddled over it 24 hours a day. With only the addition of the computing technology of one cellphone, we might have shaved a year off the date of the first moon landing. Carbon Nanotubes Nanotubes are Carbon atoms in the shape of a hexagon. Graphic created by Michael Ströck. We have every technological capability necessary to build a space elevator with one exception: carbon nanotubes (CNT). To adapt a line from Thomas Edison, a space elevator is 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration. Carbon nanotubes are extremely strong and light, with a theoretical strength of three million kilograms per square centimeter; a bundle the size of a few hairs can lift a car. The theoretical strength of nanotubes is far greater than what we would need for our space elevator; current baseline designs specify a paper-thin, 3-foot-wide ribbon. These seemingly flimsy dimensions would be strong enough to support their own weight, and the 10-ton climbers using the elevator. The nanotubes we need for our space elevator are the perfect place to start the nanotechnology revolution because, unlike biological nanotechnology research, which uses hundreds of different atoms in extremely complicated structures, nanotubes have a trivial design. The best way to attack a big problem like nanotechnology is to first attack a small part of it, like carbon nanotubes. A “Manhattan Project” on general nanotechnology does not make sense because it is too unfocused a problem, but such an effort might make sense for nanotubes. Or, it might simply require the existing industrial expertise of a company like Intel. Intel is already experimenting with nanotubes inside computer chips because metal loses the ability to conduct electricity at very small diameters. But no one has asked them if they could build mile-long ropes." - Thomas Page

Box_kite http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... [ Ultra-high-molecular-weight polyethylene http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... [[[[[[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... high as a kite http://www.thesaurus.com/browse... rocket man lyrics http://youtu.be/FCf23ZTFaDM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... 11 -26 Go fly a kite ... - Thomas Page

More motorsport stuff. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki..., RED BULL 2009 F1 CAR http://www.youtube.com/watch... , http://blogs.menshealth.com/man-and... , pstp ref eng car 10 -30 ; http://www.racecar-engineering.com/article... , http://www.torotrak.com/ , http://www.podiumtechnology.co.uk/ , http://www.williamshybridpower.com/ , http://www.xtrac.com/ , http://www.prodrive.com/ , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , http://www.cosworthusa.com/ , http://www.cosworthvega.com/ , http://www.flybridsystems.com/ , pstp 11 -27 http://www.engadget.com/2010... , sort http://www.gizmag.com/xtrac-s... , 6 -5 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

Daytona 500 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Penske http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , Winter parking lots http://jalopnik.com/5962139... , Skidpads Gs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , Drifting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

http://www.gearthblog.com/ , 3 -7 -13 http://friendfeed.com/citizen... 12 -21 http://fshistory.simflight.com/fsh... 12 -29 sort http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

Navigability http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://www.oregon.gov/dsl... http://www.americanwhitewater.org/content... 2 -26 Roberts Rules , Dams Locks Canals Hydropower - Thomas Page

pstp sci aviation space med "In order for passengers in a plane to experience a free fall safely, the aircraft must climb at a steep angle, level off, and then dive, creating a path called a parabolic arc, also called a Keplerian Trajectory or free-fall path. In a true parabolic arc, the only accelerative force is gravity pulling in a vertical direction -- horizontal velocity remains constant. Because of air resistance, objects in Earth's atmosphere only travel in arcs that approximate a true parabola. Typically, ZERO-G's plane, called G-FORCE-ONE, flies between 24,000 and 32,000 feet altitude. This gives the pilot enough room to maneuver the plane safely through its flight path. The plane's descent must start at a high altitude to provide enough distance for the pilot to safely pull out of a dive. As the plane climbs to the peak of its arc, the pilot orients it at a 45-degree angle. During the climb, the plane's acceleration and the force of gravity create a pull 1.8 times the strength of gravity alone -- passengers temporarily weigh nearly twice as much as normal. Photo courtesy of Zero Gravity Corporation A passenger aboard the G-FORCE-ONE As the plane goes over the top of the arc, the centrifugal force exerted on the plane and everything in it cancels out the gravitational force pulling downwards. At this point, passengers experience microgravity -- it feels as if you are weightless because only negligible gravitational forces are present. The sense of weightlessness lasts for about 30 seconds. Because the plane shields the passengers from the rush of air, they can experience a free fall without the interference of air resistance. The pilot pulls the plane out of the dive so that the dip between one arc and the next is at about 24,000 feet altitude. As the plane pulls out of the dive and begins to climb again, passengers again experience the force of 1.8 times that of gravity. The typical ZERO-G flight includes 15 of these parabolic arcs, while NASA flights may include up to 100." - Thomas Page

The first seven American astronauts were an admirable group of individuals chosen to sit at the apex of a pyramid of human effort. In training to transcend gravity they became a team of personalities as well as a crew of pilots. They were lionized by laymen and adored by youth as heroes before their courage was truly tested. In volunteering to entrust their lives to Mercury's spirit and Atlas' strength to blaze a trail for man into the empyrean http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... ,they chose to lead by following the opportunity that chance, circumstance, technology, and history had prepared for them. Influential 20th-century philosophers as diverse as Bertrand Russell, Teilhard de Chardin, and Walter Kaufmann tell us that man's profoundest aspiration is to know himself and his universe and that life's deepest passion is a desire to become godlike. All men must balance their hubris with their humility, but, as one of those aspiring astronauts said, "How could anyone turn down a chance to be a part of something like this?" Shortly after the astronauts were introduced to the public, a literate layman asked directions of Mercury for mankind in general: Which way will heaven be then? Up? Down? Across? Or far within? http://www.nasa.gov/mission... [[[[ 9 -8 sort http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... 12 -29 http://www.theatlantic.com/feature... - Thomas Page

i think this performance came from the OHM compilation DVD. - Big Joe Silenced

Vulcan Harp & Theremin http://youtu.be/xRfbWrI03gc [ sort http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

pstp music art gov just [ Or, is freedom really much more about power—our power to make real choices, about not only our personal lives but about the forces determining the quality of life in our communities? Whether, for example, there’s general access to quality education, public transport, parks, clean air and health care, all of which so shape our opportunity to thrive http://www.alternet.org/vision... , 2 -2 -13 Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose, And nothin' ain't worth nothin' but it's free, ~ Bobby shared the secrets of my soul, Standin' right beside me through everythin' I done, And every night she kept me from the cold. Then somewhere near Salinas, Lord, I let her slip away, She was lookin' for the home I hope she'll find, Well I'd trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday, Holdin' Bobby's body close to mine. Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose, And nothin' left was all she left to me, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

Freedom to impose , Freedom to demand conformance , << , < The Freedom of Non Consensual Reality Entitlement ... Edit sort delete start over , Liberty - Independence , Free of [[ Free to do > , >> being | having [[[[ source [[[[[ Free is a very good price. or is it? ({[ Feeling Good - Thriving - Gross National Happiness ... //////. Nothing ain't worth Nothing $$$$$$$$$$ Power of Choice? , Choice of collective ?, Mutual Reality Balance ? Belief in Non consensual reality and denial of Negotiation? Civics ... Public|Private Capital - Thomas Page

pstp hist pnw geol (Sunday, May 18, 1980) "As an ash plume moves away from the volcanic vent it no longer has the rush of escaping gases to support it. The unsupported ash particles begin to fall out. The largest ash particles fall out first and the smaller particles remain suspended longer. This can produce an ashfall deposit on the ground below the ash plume. These ashfall deposits are generally thickest near the vent and thin with distance. A map showing the ash distribution from the May 18, 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens is shown at right." - Thomas Page

Dirty Rain northwest-mystery-ash http://edition.cnn.com/2015... http://www.usatoday.com/story... http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2015... suspects http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Cliff Mass Blog http://cliffmass.blogspot.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd... 2 -8 sort http://www.capitalpress.com/2015020... ? 2 -9 http://www.oregonlive.com/environ... spots on eyeglasses - Thomas Page

pstp ref ag crops food "Wheat Wheat (Triticum spp.)[1] is a grass, originally from the Fertile Crescent region of the Near East, but now cultivated worldwide. In 2007 world production of wheat was 607 million tons, making it the third most-produced cereal after maize (784 million tons) and rice (651 million tons) https://friendfeed.com/citizen... Wheat grain is a staple food used to make flour for leavened, flat and steamed breads, biscuits, cookies, cakes, breakfast cereal, pasta, noodles, couscous [3] and for fermentation to make beer,[4] alcohol, vodka,[5] or biofuel.[6] Wheat is planted to a limited extent as a forage crop for livestock, and the straw can be used as fodder for livestock or as a construction material for roofing thatch.[7][8] Wheat is a globally important source of dietary carbohydrate (starch) and protein Raw wheat can be powdered into flour; germinated and dried creating malt; crushed or cut into cracked wheat; parboiled (or steamed), dried, crushed and de-branned into bulgur; or processed into semolina, pasta, or roux. Wheat is a major ingredient in such foods as bread, porridge, crackers, biscuits, Muesli, pancakes, pies, pastries, cakes, cookies, muffins, rolls, doughnuts, gravy, boza (a fermented beverage), and breakfast cereals (e.g. Wheatena, Cream of Wheat, Shredded Wheat, and Wheaties).Agronomy" , 2 -13 -13 http://www.npr.org/2013... - Thomas Page

Noodle Yankee doodle Jefferson pasta < 3 -14 ] Doodle http://www.vox.com/2015... ] Instant_noodle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://friendfeed.com/citizen... [[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... [[[ fried noodles http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://www.foodsubs.com/Noodles... http://blog.blueapron.com/7-types... http://www.namamillers.org/educati... http://wholegrainscouncil.org/whole-g... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

"A government is the body within a community, political entity or organization which has the authority to make and enforce rules, laws, and regulations.[citation needed] Typically, the term "government" refers to a civil government or sovereign state which can be either local, national, or international. However, commercial, academic, religious, or other formal organizations are also governed by internal bodies. Such bodies may be called boards of directors, managers, or governors or they may be known as the administration (as in schools) or councils of elders (as in churches). The size of governments can vary by region or purpose. Growth of an organization advances the complexity of its government, therefore small towns or small-to-medium privately-operated enterprises will have fewer officials than typically larger organizations such as multinational corporations which tend to have multiple interlocking, hierarchical layers of administration and governance. As complexity increases and the nature of governance becomes more complicated, so does the need for formal policies and procedures." - Thomas Page

Public_administration http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... ] The separation of powers system is designed to distribute authority among several branches — an attempt to preserve individual liberty in response to tyrannical leadership http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... throughout history. The executive officer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... is not supposed to make laws (the role of the legislature) or interpret them (the role of the judiciary). The role of the executive is to enforce the law as written by the legislature and interpreted by the judicial system. The executive can be the source of certain types of law, including decree or executive order. Executive bureaucracies are commonly the source of regulations. In this context, the executive branch of government consists of leader(s) of an office or multiple offices. Specifically, the top leadership roles of the executive branch may include: - Thomas Page

"Gastronomy is the study of the relationship between culture and food. It is often thought erroneously that the term gastronomy refers exclusively to the art of cooking (see Culinary Arts), but this is only a small part of this discipline; it cannot always be said that a cook is also a gourmet. Gastronomy studies various cultural components with food as its central axis. Thus it is related to the Fine Arts and Social Sciences, and even to the Natural Sciences in terms of the digestive system of the human body. A gourmet's principal activities involve discovering, tasting, experiencing, researching, understanding and writing about foods. Gastronomy is therefore an interdisciplinary activity. Good observation will reveal that around the food, there exist dance, dramatic arts, painting, sculpture, literature, architecture, and music; in other words, the Fine Arts. But it also involves physics, mathematics, chemistry, biology, geology, agronomy, and also anthropology, history, philosophy, psychology, and sociology. The application of scientific knowledge to cooking and gastronomy has become known as molecular gastronomy. The first formal study of gastronomy is probably The Physiology of Taste by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (early 19th century). As opposed to the traditional cooking recipe books, it studies the relationship between the senses and food, treating enjoyment at the table as a science. Most recently, in 2004, the founders of the Slow Food movement founded the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Bra, Italy, devoted to the principles of gastronomy.[1] Other centres for the study of gastronomy include the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London through its Food Studies Centre, the University of Adelaide through its Master of Arts in Gastronomy program run in cooperation with Le Cordon Bleu, New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development through its Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, the Universities of Barcelona, Bologna, and of François Rabelais in Tours through their Master in the History and Culture of Food and Boston University through its Master of Liberal Arts in Gastronomy program. Etymologically, the word "gastronomy" is derived from Ancient Greek γαστήρ (gastér) "stomach", and νόμος (nómos) "knowledge" or "law".]]" , 10 -18 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

Gusto [ 4 -4 old established local favorite restaurants, stores , offers too good to turn down, bought with intention to close divert customers to Applebee's Ect .? Big picture City slicker wheeler dealers ... Progress? [[ also more Money than brain types { more money than they know how to spend { or they know people with [[[ Nice farms and ranches for investment... ] [ late 1800s ranches ownership [[[ 4 -7 big box , survival of the ? richest / connections { on the other hand opportunities ... - Thomas Page

pstp ref food med "The diet of an organism is what it eats, and is largely determined by the perceived palatability http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... of foods.Nutritional science investigates the metabolic and physiological responses of the body to diet. With advances in the fields of molecular biology, biochemistry, and genetics, the study of nutrition is increasingly concerned with metabolism and metabolic pathways: the sequences of biochemical steps through which substances in living things change from one form to anotherThere are six major classes of nutrients: carbohydrates, fats, minerals, protein, vitamin, and water." ps2-10 Metabolism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... 9 -25 Metabolic_network http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... 12 -29 https://friendfeed.com/citizen... 1 -1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

Costs ? [ Best Buys ? [[ what to buy with financial resource restrictions (individualized) ? [[[ collective volition ? 4 and 5 Freedoms , Pollan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... [[[[ for best health ? ... [[[[[ software For ... ? Cookbook for ... ? Programming for Logistics ? sort https://software.intel.com/en-us... {[( Nutrisystem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://health.usnews.com/best-di... - Thomas Page

pstp astro "The International Date Line (IDL) is an imaginary line on the surface of the Earth opposite the Prime Meridian where the date changes as one travels east or west across it. Roughly along 180° longitude, with diversions to pass around some territories and island groups, it mostly corresponds to the time zone boundary separating −12 and +12 hours Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) (Greenwich Mean Time – GMT). Crossing the IDL travelling east results in a day or 24 hours being subtracted (so the traveler repeats the date), and crossing west results in a day being added. The exact number of hours depends on the time zones." , 4 -10 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news... , 3 -10 -13 What was name of movie where race horse was transported across state line so foal would be born on New Year's day? http://wiki.answers.com/Q... http://articles.timesofindia.i... sort ? http://www.pickshorseracing.com/ ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://www.jockeyclub.com/registr... - Thomas Page

Like sand through the Hourglass these are the days of our lives ] http://friendfeed.com/citizen... ]] Scientific_American http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... •• That simple question is probably asked more often today than ever. In our clock-studded society, the answer is never more than a glance away, and so we can blissfully partition our days into ever smaller increments for ever more tightly scheduled tasks, confident that we will always know it is 7:03 P.M. Modern scientific revelations about time, however, make the question endlessly frustrating. If we seek a precise knowledge of the time, the elusive infinitesimal of “now” dissolves into a scattering flock of nanoseconds. Bound by the speed of light and the velocity of nerve impulses, our perceptions of the present sketch the world as it was an instant ago—for all that our consciousness pretends otherwise, we can never catch up. Even in principle, perfect synchronicity escapes us. Relativity dictates that, like a strange syrup, time flows slower on moving trains than in the stations and faster in the mountains than in the valleys. The time for our wristwatch is not exactly the same as the time for our head. It is roughly 7:04 P.M. Our intuitions are deeply paradoxical. Time heals all wounds, but it is also the great destroyer. Time is relative but also relentless. There is time for every purpose under heaven, but there is never enough. Time flies, crawls and races. Seconds can be both split and stretched. Like the tide, time waits for no man, but in dramatic moments it also stands still. It is as personal as the pace of one's heartbeat but as public as the clock tower in the town square. We do our best to reconcile the contradictions. It seems like 7:05 P.M. And of course, time is money. It is the partner of change, the antagonist of speed, the currency in which we pay attention. It is our most precious, irreplaceable commodity. Yet still we say we don't know where it goes, and we sleep away a third of it, and none of us really can account for how much we have left. We can find 100 ways to save time, but the amount remaining nonetheless diminishes steadily. It is already 7:06 P.M. Time and memory shape our perceptions of our own identity. We may feel ourselves to be at history's mercy, but we also see ourselves as free-willed agents of the future. That conception is disturbingly at odds with the ideas of physicists and philosophers, however, because if time is a dimension like those of space, then yesterday, today and tomorrow are all equally concrete and determined. The future exists as much as the past does; it is just in a place that we have not yet visited. Somewhere, it is 7:07 P.M. “Time is the substance of which I am made,” Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges wrote. “Time is a river that carries me away, but I am the river; it is a tiger that destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.” This special issue of Scientific American summarizes what science has discovered about how time permeates and guides both our physical world and our inner selves [ Hourglass http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... [[ Soap Opera http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... [[[ Canonical_hours http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Liturgy_of_the_Hours http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... [[[[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Obelisk http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

"Arguments for: Identity cards can be a useful administrative tool that can increase efficiency in dealings with both the government and private companies.Cards may help reduce immigration service bureaucracy. In certain countries, the procedures for deporting illegal immigrants whose ages, identities or nationalities cannot be formally established are more complex than those for whom they can be readily asserted. This gives illegal immigrants more time to prepare their legal defence. In some countries (Spain, for instance) it may prevent the immigrant's deportation altogether. However, in this situation most illegal immigrants will destroy their identity papers, nullifying the reduction in bureaucracy." , 6 -7 http://science.slashdot.org/story... - Thomas Page

Complexity deal with it , Accountability ... - Thomas Page

Gravity Wells http://xkcd.com/681/ , 7 -10 http://xkcd.com/482/ , pstp astro space visual 1 -15 The Known Universe by AMNH http://www.youtube.com/watch... ps1-22 http://xixidu.net/2010... , ps2-9 http://reddit.com/az6pe , ps2-14 http://www.limk.com/english... ps2-24 http://www.newgrounds.com/portal... , 10 -17 http://www.nasa.gov/topics... , 2 -2 https://www.youtube.com/watch... - Thomas Page

11 -20 sort moon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... geologic map of moon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://the-moon.wikispaces.com/Stratig... [ http://wiki.kerbalspaceprogram.com/wiki... http://wiki.kerbalspaceprogram.com/wiki... [[[[[[ sort 11 -22 Planetary_boundaries http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

"Aviation safety will get a huge fillip if researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics get these simulation experiments up to speed. Presently they are embarking upon a project called the SUPRA which is an acronym for Simulation of Upset Recovery in Aviation. During this three year simulation project, researchers will judge how pilots react to critical manoeuvres in dangerous situations. By studying how the pilots’ brains react to such situation, the researchers will develop simulation packages that will help pilots practice how to handle such situations beforehand. If they do manage to achieve this, aviation safety will receive a major boost with better trained pilots flying the next generation of high performance aircraft." - Thomas Page

Exoskeleton https://friendfeed.com/citizen... in Aerotrim http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... mounted on Robot Arm ... - Thomas Page

"There are no obvious barriers to the mass production of electric tractors and combine harvesters: the weight of the batteries and an electric vehicle’s low-end torque are both advantages for tractors." - Thomas Page

Electric Tractor http://www.versaland.com/2012... [ Mars Exploration Rover http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... [[ 9 -30 http://sydney.edu.au/enginee... http://sydney.edu.au/news... - Thomas Page

"Flow-Chart for a Rational Discourse It is only within conversational contexts that encourage the ego to “play the game of rational truth seeker” that effective reasoning is possible. In light of this I have drawn up a flow-chart. Think of it as a game board upon which we can play the game of rational truth seeker. The structure of the board is not set in stone and is open to discussion and revision, but it serves as a basic guide to help us create an impersonal, detached and rational conversation. Note that because this is a 'game' that does not make it meaningless and trivial. It may become very important and involve intense clashes of ideas, but it will remain within the scope of rational truth seeking and will not devolve into ego battles and propaganda war. The flow-chart also serves as a common contract. If you enter the conversation you must ABIDE by this contract and you can also expect other participants to abide by it as well. Hence it is a guarantee that you will receive civil, rational treatment and that there isn't some ego maniac lurking in the forum that will try to bight your head off as soon as you say something controversial." pstp ref phil man psy pol - Thomas Page

Troubleshooting https://friendfeed.com/citizen... https://friendfeed.com/citizen... https://friendfeed.com/citizen... Accountability? [[[[[ Oversight of Congress by Press , Checks and Balance on Congress performed by Electorate ] [ Process Corruption ... Why? }}}}}}}} {{{{{{{{ sort, People >> Congress >>> < Executive >> <<< Judicial <<<< Lawmaking ?????? Troubleshooting ... Accountability? - Thomas Page

https://friendfeed.com/citizen... [ https://friendfeed.com/friendf... [[ https://friendfeed.com/friendf... [[[ backup ? http://www.softpedia.com/get... https://github.com/thwarte... 3 -12 sort https://friendfeed.com/arc315... http://friendfeed.com/about... - Thomas Page

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