Actually a new titanium refining process was discovered a short while ago
Here we report an electrochemical method for the direct reduction of solid TiO2, in which the oxygen is ionized, dissolved in a molten salt and discharged at the anode, leaving pure titanium at the cathode. The simplicity and rapidity of this process compared to conventional routes should result in reduced production costs and the approach should be applicable to a wide range of metal oxides.
Was one of the first Visual Programming IDEs I'd used. I found it incredibly powerful and liberating. You could build complex beans in a simple, easy to use (to me anyway) Visual Composition Editor.
Pity that it fell a victim to internal politics...
Asking a person to establish identity is not the same thing as 'intimidation and coercion'. Neither are they going to have operatives show up and ask how they meant to vote.
Logan said he will ask the three-member King County Canvassing Board tomorrow to approve the counting of all wrongly disqualified ballots that pass a signature comparison. If some signatures don't match, those voters will be notified of the mismatch and given a chance to establish their identity.
Attorneys for Secretary of State Sam Reed say counties across the state made errors that were corrected by canvassing boards, which resulted in new votes being counted.
Attorney Thomas Ahearne argues that if the court now rules that King County can't correct errors during a recount, other counties will have to comb through results in both the completed machine recount and the hand recount to pick out any votes that they had added when correcting errors. The hand recount has been completed in all but King County.
Reed maintains that King County has the same right as every other county to correct errors during the recount. Rulings on the validity of ballots are made by local canvassing boards, three-person panels in each of 39 counties. If the court rules that King County can't count the 735 disputed ballots, Reed says, that means no county should have been able to reconsider ballots after the initial count.
Oh wow. Finding out that signature cards were not scanned in (and hence could not be verified on computer equipment) and doing a manual verification against the paper registration cards is a 'blatant abuse of the process?'
King County Elections Director Dean Logan said that when workers were verifying signatures on absentee ballots, they erroneously disqualified voters whose signatures hadn't been entered into a computer system.
Instead, Logan said, they should have double-checked with signatures on voters' registration cards on file with the county.
"We take full responsibility," Logan said. "An error has been made that has prevented valid ballots from being counted. We need to correct the error and count those votes."
An increase in atmospheric CO2 is an expected consequence of removal of the marine biota. It is demonstrated that the progressive fishing-induced biomass depletion of the world's ocean is a more plausible explanation for what has triggered the rising CO2 in the atmosphere, than is our more recent history of burning fossil fuels. The time frame of the effect (rising CO2) fits more closely to the proposed cause (fishing). Proof for the long-term trend in biomass depletion is found by examining the contrasting pictures of abundant marine species pre-fishing and the life-depleted status of the world's ocean today. The realization that biomass depletion has "bottom-up" effects as well as "top-down" ones leads to the inevitable conclusion that marine primary productivity is functioning at a significantly lower level now than it did in the past, when the ocean-atmosphere maintained a steady carbon balance.
Just responding to your last statment: that Kerry decides to pick a sensible stance on something and stay with it for good.
You mean to say that Kerry should pick a stance and stay with it even when the situation no longer warrants it? Or are you just repeating propaganda?
Remember the RWE quote: A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
Heh, this brings back memories of when I was asked to re-write one line of code into 9 lines because some of the newer team members had trouble understanding it. I dimly recall that my original line was something like:
You might be interested in these books:
Teach your baby Math and Baby Signs.
I got my sister the Baby Signs book, and now my nephew who's just over a year old, is already proficient in baby ASL and making up his own words!
Well, there's no reason why you cannot run VNC under Linux. See here for one implementation.
The (unstated) benefit is that you can get a windows client to connect to a Linux VNC server (and vice-versa).
With this watch, when you want to know what time it is, you pull a knob, which activates a hydraulic piston mechanism, which raises a little cover, thus revealing the watch face.
It's not just that. When I first heard this report, I was really excited. But then I read this
report
If there is life on Mars, it would probably be microorganisms in water deep below the surface of the planet. Dr. Geoffrey Briggs, director, Center for Mars Exploration at the NASA Ames Center, told "Meet Alaska" that NASA is looking at ways to drill on Mars to look for water -- and the life it might contain.
Briggs said NASA has been working with Halliburton, Shell, Baker-Hughes and the Los Alamos National Laboratory to identify drilling technologies that might work on Mars.
and now I'm afraid that this is just another ploy to give multi-billion dollar no-bid contracts to Halliburton.
Try this: Keep your total carbohydrate (sugar/flour/high fructose corn syrup/fruit/bread/etc) intake below 20 gms for a week. Then, on the 7th day, eat a candy bar.
And 5-20 minutes after you do, come back here and tell us that the sugar high does not exist.
The low carb/south beach/atkins dieters will know what I'm talking about here:)
USDA officials told UPI as recently as Dec. 17 the agency still is searching for documentation of its mad cow testing results from 2002 and 2003.
UPI initially requested the documents on July 10, and the agency sent a response letter dated July 24, saying it had launched a search for any documents pertaining to mad cow tests from 2002 and 2003.
"If any documents exist, they will be forwarded," USDA official Michael Marquis wrote in the letter.
Despite this and a 30-day limit under the Freedom of Information Act on responding to such a request, the USDA never sent any corresponding documents. The agency's FOI office also did not return several calls from UPI placed over a series of months.
All babies born in Britain could have their DNA stored in a national databank for their future medical treatment as part of a 50m genetics initiative published yesterday.
How long do you think it will be before this becomes a requirement for all adults in the UK?
This is one case where the situation here in America is a lot better than in the UK. Well, ok, that and the whole distaste they have for self-defence...
You're right. Searching little old ladies where there is no cause to do so is stupid.
I apologize for not making myself clear earlier. What I was trying to say was that just because we are being attacked by hundreds of Arab terrorists does not mean that we should ignore the others who (are not Arab terrorists and) have the capability to cause terror attacks.
Also, most of the hijackers were from Saudi Arabia. And where do we attack?
Yo, Rumsfeld! The Army's headed in the wrong direction, make them turn around and keep going straight past Najaf and through the Syro-Arabian desert! The Hijackers came from that-a-way.
Maybe you are just trolling, but I'll bite. Here's a cookie
Last month, an east Texas man pleaded guilty to possession of a weapon of mass destruction. Inside the home and storage facilities of William Krar, investigators found a sodium-cyanide bomb capable of killing thousands, more than a hundred explosives, half a million rounds of ammunition, dozens of illegal weapons, and a mound of white-supremacist and antigovernment literature.
"Without question, it ranks at the very top of all domestic terrorist arrests in the past 20 years in terms of the lethality of the arsenal," says Daniel Levitas, author of "The Terrorist Next Door: The Militia Movement and the Radical Right."
I'm just praying that it does not take another bunch of kids slaughtered OKC style for people to wake up to the fact that terror tactics are not the exclusive preserve of the dark skinned Arabs who spoke with an accent and the dark skinned, funny speaking terrorists.
So they can't lose money selling cheap iPods in order to sell more music at the same time that they're losing money selling music in order to sell more iPods.
Feh. You reminded me of this pre-internet 419 scam:
Glorious Opportunity To Get Rich!!! We are starting a cat ranch in Lacon with 100,000 cats. Each cat will average 12 kittens a year. The cat skins will sell for 30 cents each. One hundred men can skin 5,000 cats a day. We figure a daily net profit of over $10,000. Now what shall we feed the cats? We will start a rat farm next door with 1,000,000 rats. The rats breed 12 times faster than the cats. So we will have four rats to feed each day to each cat. Now what shall we feed the rats? We will feed the rats the carcasses of the cats after they have been skinned. Now Get This! We feed the rats to the cats and the cats to the rats and get the cat skins for nothing!
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Huh? If a woman has a red dot on her forehead, she's a language?
ITYM Hindu
Darned RIAA. :)
Here we report an electrochemical method for the direct reduction of solid TiO2, in which the oxygen is ionized, dissolved in a molten salt and discharged at the anode, leaving pure titanium at the cathode. The simplicity and rapidity of this process compared to conventional routes should result in reduced production costs and the approach should be applicable to a wide range of metal oxides.
Was one of the first Visual Programming IDEs I'd used. I found it incredibly powerful and liberating. You could build complex beans in a simple, easy to use (to me anyway) Visual Composition Editor. Pity that it fell a victim to internal politics...
More from the article
You might find it interesting to note that the Secretary of State (who is BTW a Republican) agrees that the recount should happen in King county :See this news report
King County Elections Director Dean Logan said that when workers were verifying signatures on absentee ballots, they erroneously disqualified voters whose signatures hadn't been entered into a computer system. Instead, Logan said, they should have double-checked with signatures on voters' registration cards on file with the county. "We take full responsibility," Logan said. "An error has been made that has prevented valid ballots from being counted. We need to correct the error and count those votes."
An increase in atmospheric CO2 is an expected consequence of removal of the marine biota. It is demonstrated that the progressive fishing-induced biomass depletion of the world's ocean is a more plausible explanation for what has triggered the rising CO2 in the atmosphere, than is our more recent history of burning fossil fuels. The time frame of the effect (rising CO2) fits more closely to the proposed cause (fishing). Proof for the long-term trend in biomass depletion is found by examining the contrasting pictures of abundant marine species pre-fishing and the life-depleted status of the world's ocean today. The realization that biomass depletion has "bottom-up" effects as well as "top-down" ones leads to the inevitable conclusion that marine primary productivity is functioning at a significantly lower level now than it did in the past, when the ocean-atmosphere maintained a steady carbon balance.
Uh, you're being facetitous right?
Try Eclipse.
And as the saying goes, those who don't learn from history are condemmed to repeat it.
Just responding to your last statment: that Kerry decides to pick a sensible stance on something and stay with it for good.
You mean to say that Kerry should pick a stance and stay with it even when the situation no longer warrants it? Or are you just repeating propaganda?
Remember the RWE quote: A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
You might be interested in these books: Teach your baby Math and Baby Signs.
I got my sister the Baby Signs book, and now my nephew who's just over a year old, is already proficient in baby ASL and making up his own words!
Well, there's no reason why you cannot run VNC under Linux. See here for one implementation.
The (unstated) benefit is that you can get a windows client to connect to a Linux VNC server (and vice-versa).
Or you could see if you can find a Hydraulic Watch
<sotto-voice>I think you meant seque </sotto-voice>
Try this: Keep your total carbohydrate (sugar/flour/high fructose corn syrup/fruit/bread/etc) intake below 20 gms for a week. Then, on the 7th day, eat a candy bar.
And 5-20 minutes after you do, come back here and tell us that the sugar high does not exist.
The low carb/south beach/atkins dieters will know what I'm talking about here :)
Not sure if the DVD Tivo allows you to burn is a 'normal' dvd you can play on any player or is similarly crippled.
The milkdrop visualization output to tv when playing mp3s :)
Not for long.
How long do you think it will be before this becomes a requirement for all adults in the UK?
This is one case where the situation here in America is a lot better than in the UK. Well, ok, that and the whole distaste they have for self-defence...
I apologize for not making myself clear earlier. What I was trying to say was that just because we are being attacked by hundreds of Arab terrorists does not mean that we should ignore the others who (are not Arab terrorists and) have the capability to cause terror attacks.
Also, most of the hijackers were from Saudi Arabia. And where do we attack?
Yo, Rumsfeld! The Army's headed in the wrong direction, make them turn around and keep going straight past Najaf and through the Syro-Arabian desert! The Hijackers came from that-a-way.
Feh. You reminded me of this pre-internet 419 scam:
Glorious Opportunity To Get Rich!!!
We are starting a cat ranch in Lacon with 100,000 cats. Each cat will average 12 kittens a year. The cat skins will sell for 30 cents each. One hundred men can skin 5,000 cats a day. We figure a daily net profit of over $10,000. Now what shall we feed the cats? We will start a rat farm next door with 1,000,000 rats. The rats breed 12 times faster than the cats. So we will have four rats to feed each day to each cat. Now what shall we feed the rats? We will feed the rats the carcasses of the cats after they have been skinned. Now Get This! We feed the rats to the cats and the cats to the rats and get the cat skins for nothing!