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[David Reneke] Astro Space News 22 March 2010 « David Reneke: GAM2010 includes the most popular events for both astronomers and the public: telescopes will be available for the viewing of the Moon, Saturn and other objects, not only at observatories and planetariums, but also in public locations; dark sky observing of distant objects, Messier marathon, Lyrid Meteor Shower observing parties and events for the annual celebration of Astronomy Day (April, 24) are just some of the activities planned;

[Perspectives] Perspectives - Private Clouds Are Not The Future: While I certainly agree that private clouds are not a tenable long-term solution and that the large-scale providers have a definite edge in cost, I think that data lock-in is still a fundamental concern to many IT departments. If a business's value is truly its data and that data is very large, as it certainly will be, what will be the driver to push the movement of that data onto infrastructure controlled by others where moving between providers is non-trivial?

[CTE: News and Events] Teaching & Learning News: Individual faculty members, as well as departmental or interdisciplinary clusters, are invited to apply. Pre- vious Grants can be viewed at http://cte.umd.edu/grants/iigabstracts/2007-2008abstracts/index.html. .... the consultant provides an outside perspective, peer support for a plan of action, and suggestions for additional resources. Consultations can address any number of areas, including, among other issues, assessment, active learning, col- ...

[Info About] Info About » Hypothecate Definition: These dwelling may be Big or REALLY Big but the key is that they are too Big for the actual income / lifestyle of owner. Real mansions are owned by people who could afford to throw parties that would fill up the entertainment areas and have out of town guests that fill the guest suites and / or they can afford to let them sit vacant for months at a time.

[Clusterfuck Nation] The Jive Economy - Clusterfuck Nation: I came out pretty disappointed with how little such awesome power attempted, when the possibilities are wide open to affect attitudes. Someone over on Freedom Guerrilla directed me to Star Trek Insurrection as a good story about people coping in a low-tech post-contraction world, so I ordered the DVD.

[Cluster] Cluster | City - Design - Innovation » Design revolution or social ...: The Belgian exhibition entitled Other People’s Belgium, part of the second section “Designer’s Europe” of Flight Number Ten (assistant curator: Giovanna Massoni) added a surprising perspective to the topic of Euoprean design by presenting creations ”˜Made in Belgium’ but by foreign designers - immigrants, cultural nomads, temporary residents and glocals.

[thedailygreen.com article feed] Environmental Perspectives from New York and the Hudson Valley ...: One important local byproduct of the Scenic Hudson Decision was New York's State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA), which requires that most projects or activities proposed by a state agency or local government, and all permits from these entities, undergo an environmental impact assessment through a proscribed process that includes substantial public involvement. While a SEQRA review can be time-consuming -- which is why some view it as an impediment to growth -- it often leads to improved designs that tread more lightly on the land.

[BloggingStocks] IMF: Global economic slowdown a certainty, due to financial crisis ...: Yet, while the development of new cities will rev up our economy structural problems still plague the global economy””it’s unbalanced and so unsustainable as witnessed by our mounting trade deficits. And given that the financial crisis was brought on by our loss of jobs to the global economy (the housing bubble was the result of the Fed lowering interest rates to rock bottom in a desperate and vain attempt to avoid recession following the collapse of the dot.com bubble), we have to ponder the question, is capitalism collapsing?

[ClimateChangeCorp - Main] Dr David Suzuki: Global economic growth is 'suicidal ...: To me this was a nice metaphoric or poetic way of speaking but they would correct me and insist that they meant it literally. The Earth, they said, is our mother because it gives birth to us, creating us out of the four sacred elements, earth, air, fire and water.

[Stand Up For America] The Looming Threat of Iran « Stand Up For America: The largest portion of the attacks were directed by Iran against Kuwaiti vessels, and on 1 November 1986, Kuwait formally petitioned foreign powers to protect its shipping. The Soviet Union agreed to charter tankers starting in 1987, and the United States offered to provide protection for tankers flying the U.S. flag on 7 March 1987 (Operation Earnest Will and Operation Prime Chance).[43] Under international law, an attack on such ships would be treated as an attack on the United States, allowing the U.S. Navy to retaliate.

[Balloon Juice] Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » I get Wiki: I've also made anonymous changes on pages where my expertise makes it clear that content is incorrect (eg Beowulf clusters - I fixed the material on MPI libraries as I've worked developing MPI libraries). As for putting in editorial content - certainly that can happen.

[Planet Case] The Future of Higher Education: This dramatic reframing of scholarship has not been accompanied by a parallel transformation in the student experience, represented by scalable, cross-national collaborations between students of diverse backgrounds. Even though a mountain of data extending back to the Peace Corps era suggests the significant impact of cross-cultural exchanges, relatively few global initiatives support sustained student learning about the world around them.

[Latest Science News Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, Articles and Book Reviews] Losing Life's Variety - Science News: But since we continue to dance around the paramount issue of human overpopulation as if it was invisible, it should be no mystery why no progress has been made since 1992-3 on reversing the decline of biodiversity. If we are at all honest with ourselves, we ought to expect efforts on any of these preservational fronts to fail miserably in the future as long as we ignore the salient underlying circumstance that makes all of these problems identical: a gross over-abundance of human flesh.

[Radicalislamvsworld's Blog] HISTORY - Time line [some] Important Dates in radical 'ISLAM VS WORLD': This clash within Islamic countries between Islamist religious forces and modernizers like Kemal Atatuerk in Turkey, Habib Burgiba in Tunisia, Gemal Abdel Nasser, Anwar Sadat and Hosni Mubarek in Egypt, the deposed Reza Shah Pahlavi in Iran, and even Saddam Hussein in Iraq, and Islamist religious forces is long, deep and powerful. The modernizers in these countries have usually come from military rather than civilian backgrounds, and by transforming one of the few intact institutions of the old regime - namely the military bureaucracy - into an instrument of political power and hegemony, they have consolidated their authority, often with limited popular support and democratic institutions.

[The Rates Blog] House sales slump in January to lowest level - Blogging On ...: from my perspective although negative geared and floating at least I have the security of the lease (until interest rates get up to +8% then I’ll get a bit nervous). right now looking to ride out the storm over next 2-3 years and break into the sunshine in 4 or so years –

[David Reneke] Astro Space News 8 March 2010: instead of testimony, members of Congress expressed concern (sometimes bordering on outrage) when talking with NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden that under the proposed Obama plan, NASA will no longer be in the human spaceflight business, as space transportation services will be turned over to commercial firms.

[The Rates Blog] Economic weather report - Blogging On Interest Rates, Economics ...: Agreed, however housing prices are un-sustainable, they will work themselves out at some stage….the reality is this time round NZ has not suffered at the hands of the second Great Depression There are so many major events in the next 5~20 years that I cant see how house prices can stay so high relative to earnings and that collapse will be helped by those staying in housing and not putting their money into real production, which is what the economy really is…

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