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- Space Stations and Shuttles News (KidsAstronomy.com)
Provides information on the latest space missions, discoveries, and achievements each day. 11-00.
- Methanol Fuel Stations by State (Alternative Fuels Data Center)
Provides a map of which states have methanol fuel stations. 12-00
- CNG (Compressed Natural Gas Fuel Stations by State (Alternative Fuels Data Center)
Provides a map of which states have CNG fuel stations. 12-00
- Space Stations and Shuttles
- Ethanol (E85) Fueling Stations in the USA (E85Fuel.com)
Provides a map. Most states have some fueling stations, but almost all of the stations that are available to the public are in the Midwest. 05-06
- -05-25-06 FCC Probe of TV Stations Airing Ads as News (Bloomberg.com)
"Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin ordered a probe of dozens of television stations after a report found they aired advertisements as if they were news reports, people familiar with the inquiry said." 05-06
- -Making Fuel Pellets from Biochar for Power Stations (BiomassMagazine.com)
"One of the methods for condensing biomass is pelletizing. Corn stover, for example, can be made 10 times denser if it is first ground to a five-thirty-seconds-inch particle before pelletizing, according to Alan Doering, associate scientist of coproducts at the Agricultural Utilization Research Institute office in Waseca, Minn."
"Eighty wood pellet mills across North America produce 1.1 million tons of pellets annually and 23 fireplace manufacturers make pellet stoves and fireplace inserts for burning pellets, according to the Pellet Fuels Institute, a nonprofit in Arlington, Va., that serves the pellet industry. The institute says 800,000 homes in the U.S. use wood pellets for heat."
"Before pelletizing, the mixture [of biomass] must be conditioned using water of varying temperatures or steam. 'Corn stover has a lower glass-transitioning temperature than switchgrass,' Doering says. 'You can get a very durable corn stover pellet at 165 degrees Fahrenheit, whereas to get an equivalent pellet with switchgrass, you have to obtain temperatures greater than 200 degrees, oftentimes 210 or 220 degrees.' "
" 'The big demand, as we see it right now, is going to be the electrical utility plants, the coal-burning plants,' Doudlah says. 'We have been involved in some test burns [with] some power plants and they are trying to see what the emissions are going to be. So far they have come back quite promising.' "
"Pastr notes that the fluidized bed combustion technology used at power plants is inherently flexible and can burn fuels with a wide range of calorific values, ash and moisture content and they have successfully been used to cofire wood, biomass and waste materials, in addition to coal. 12-12
- Mir - Space Shuttle to Mir (NASA)
Provides information on different shuttles to Mir and includes the John Glenn flight.
- Space Flight News (NASA)
Provides information on space flights, including stories on the International Space Station. This new NASA site has a search engine and consolidates most other NASA Web sites for space exploration.
- Space Flight - Map of Web Site (NASA)
Provides information on space flights, including stories on the International Space Station. This new NASA site has a search engine and consolidates most other NASA Web sites for space exploration.
- Music - By Artist, Song, or Radio Station (New Radio Star)
Provides a search engine to find artists, songs, and music radio stations. 4-00
- Space Station and Shuttle (NASA Human Spaceflight - Dismukes and Humphries)
Provides news on events surrounding space stations and shuttles. 2-01
- Space Exploration Search (NASA)
Searches NASA for information on space exploration, such as flights to Mars or the Moon, the Space Station, telescopes, pictures of planets, and more.
- How Electricity Gets to Your Home (Howstuffworks.com)
Describes how "power distribution grids" work. Explains alternate current (AC) and direct current (DC), power stations, transmission substations, and more. 5-01
- Space Shuttle Columbia - History (NASA)
Provides a history of the Columbia space shuttle. 2-03
- Astronauts (NASA)
"Welcome to the astronaut biographies home page, providing biographical information on the members of the space flight crews and candidates for future missions in NASA's space flight program." "The term 'astronaut' derives from the Greek words meaning 'space sailor,' and refers to all who have been launched as crew members aboard NASA spacecraft bound for orbit and beyond." 2-03
- Space Exploration and Astronauts (EdSpace NASA)
Provides educational information about the U.S. space program and the astronauts.
- Democracy, Media, and Deregulation (Alternet.org - Schmelzer)
"Indeed, the issue of centralized news will be exacerbated after the FCC's June 2 vote on ownership. On the chopping block are six regulations that attempt to preserve a diversity of voices and local control of media from the ban on owning both a TV station and newspaper in the same market to limits on how many radio stations one group can own in a given area."
"Should the FCC vote to weaken these protections as expected more of our airwaves will be concentrated in the hands of a few corporations."
Nichols says, " ' We still have a highly regulated media. The only thing that is changing is that it's now being regulated in the interests not of democracy or the people, but larger corporations.' " 4-03
- 10-27-03 Major Attack on Baghdad (Bloomberg.com)
"Suicide bombers killed at least 34 people and injured 224 today in five coordinated attacks on the Red Cross and police stations in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, U.S. and Iraqi officials said." 10-03
- 03-06-04 Republicans Try to Block Anti-Bush Ads (CNN News)
"The Republican National Committee is warning television stations across the country not to run ads from the MoveOn.org Voter Fund that criticize President Bush, charging that the left-leaning political group is paying for them with money raised in violation of the new campaign-finance law."
"But MoveOn.org's lawyer, Joseph Sandler, said in a statement that the ads were funded legally, calling the RNC's letter "a complete misrepresentation of the law."
" 'It's not surprising that [RNC Chairman] Ed Gillespie continues to make false claims about the legality of our campaign in order to silence us,' Wes Boyd, president of the voter fund, said in a statement. 'Our lawyers continue to assure us that our advertising, and the small contributions from tens of thousands of our members that pay for it, conform in every way to existing campaign-finance laws.' " 3-04
- Fuel Cell Cars Available This Year (PowerFrontiers.com)
"Hydrogen-powered vehicles, and the fuelling stations to support them will be operated in the Detroit area in Michigan, in Central Florida and in California. The automotive company and the energy provider will provide details of the plan, and show the prototype vehicle and fuelling station."
"Available for a test drive will be the latest hybrid electric vehicle technology with an advanced fuel cell to create an all-new, highly efficient, zero-emissions Ford Focus sedan." 2-04
- 06-23-04 Court Blocks Media Dominance Rules (USAToday.com)
"A federal appeals court on Thursday largely reversed a landmark set of rule changes from the Federal Communications Commission that would have allowed media companies to own more radio and television stations in the same market." 6-04
- Ford, Henry (CNN News)
"But Ford's contributions reverberate far beyond his company's factories and boardrooms."
"His policy towards employees -- most evident in his 1914 decision to essentially double the then-standard wage to $5 a day, while guaranteeing 8-hour shifts and a 5-day workweek -- rippled through the American economy. As other companies adopted this policy, more and more Americans had both the money and time to drive anywhere, anytime."
" 'If it hadn't been for Henry Ford's drive to create a mass market for cars, America wouldn't have a middle class today,' wrote Iacocca."
"Increased travel spurred appeals for better and more roads, the development of suburbs, the oil industry's rise and a boom in gas stations, strip malls and motels."
"But the assembly line itself had the biggest impact on American society, Hyde contended, in making possible the swift, mass production of everything from computers to 'fast food.' "
"Ford deserves credit for the mass consumption society in which products that people want can be produced so that they are affordable and abundant." 8-04
- -11-05-04 "Values" Message Wins Ohio for GOP (MSNBC News)
"While the two campaigns slugged it out on big-city TV stations with commercials about the war and the economy, Bush's Ohio campaign used targeted mailings, phone calls and doorstep visits to talk about values, said John C. Green, a University of Akron professor who studies religion and politics. Green described one piece of mail from the Bush campaign that featured a beautiful church and a traditional nuclear family. It was headlined, 'George W. Bush shares your values. Marriage. Life. Faith.' "
"It could not have been clearer if it had quoted from the Bible," Green said." 11-04
- Oregon Implementation of the Help America Vote Act (Oregon Elections)
Provides information on the Oregon implementation of HAVA. Oregon is the first state to implement a mail-in voting system. The Oregon system reduces opportunities for voter suppression (no long lines or queries at the polling stations), provides a paper ballot, and provides an opportunity for the individual voter and each political party to confirm if an individual's vote was received. Individuals and each political party can also determine which individuals are registered to vote well before the voting deadline.
Oregon also conducts a county by county assessment of accessibility to the elections office for persons with disabilities.1-05
- Oregon - Mail-In Voting System Questions and Answers (Oregon Elections)
Provides questions and answers regarding the Oregon mail-in voting system. Oregon is the first state to implement a mail-in voting system. The Oregon system reduces opportunities for voter suppression (no long lines or queries at the polling stations), provides a paper ballot, provides public access to observe each step in the process, and provides an opportunity for the individual voter and each political party to confirm if an individual's vote was received. Individuals and each political party can also determine which individuals are registered to vote well before the voting deadline.
Oregon also conducts a county by county assessment of accessibility to the elections office for persons with disabilities.1-05
- -03-16-05 GAO: Illegal Presentation of Propaganda as News (ABC News)
"President Bush today defended his administration's use of video news releases packaged as news stories, which have been sent to local television stations across the country and sometimes broadcast with no indication they were made by the government."
"The U.S. Government Accountability Office the investigative arm of Congress ruled last month at least two of the broadcast reports ones about Medicare and illegal narcotics were 'covert propaganda' and illegal." 3-05
- -06-27-05 Commission: NASA Fails on Safety (BBC News)
"The US space agency (Nasa) has failed to meet tough safety recommendations issued after the Columbia shuttle break-up in 2003, experts say."
"The independent Stafford-Covey Commission said risk remained that pieces of foam and ice could break off and hit the shuttle at lift-off."
"It also said the orbiter had not been sufficiently hardened and it lacked an in-flight repair system." 6-05
- -07-28-05 European Union Seeks Mandatory Limits on Gases (BBC News)
"The European Union says it will push for legally-binding global restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions.
"A spokeswoman's comments came after the announcement of a voluntary pact, based on new technology, between the US and five Asia-Pacific states."
"She also told BBC News that the new pact is unlikely to bring a significant reduction in emissions."
"The new pact will allow signed-up countries - currently the United States, Australia, China, India, South Korea and Japan - to set goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions individually, with no enforcement mechanism."
"The core approach is to develop clean technologies, such as low-emission coal-fired power stations, which can be used in developing countries as their energy needs increase." 7-05
- Space Missions
- Editorial: Price Gouging With Gas - Worry Later (Slate.com - Goolsbee)
"If gas prices did not rise across the country now, in fact, the short-term impact would be disastrous. Demand would vastly exceed the current supply. As people continued to buy as much or possibly more gas, stations around the country would run out because wholesalers would refuse to supply them at the lower price. Families who'd driven off on Labor Day trips would still be stuck out on the highway, looking for a place to fill up."
"Somehow, hunts for gas gougers always seem to start at the wrong time." 9-05
- 09-19-05 NASA to Replace Shuttle Design (Bloomberg.com)
"NASA plans to replace the space shuttle with a reusable spacecraft shaped like the Apollo capsule that first took U.S. astronauts to the moon in 1969, the U.S. space agency said today."
"The Crew Exploration Vehicle will be three times as big as the Apollo capsule and can be used as many as 10 times, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said in a statement."
"The spacecraft will be able to take as many as four astronauts to the moon and as many as six people on missions to Mars, NASA said. It will also be able to deliver supplies and crews to the International Space Station." 9-05
- -01-18-06 Report: U.S. Abuse of Prisoners a Boon for Terrorist Recruiters (CBS News)
"The Bush administration has a deliberate strategy of abusing terror suspects during interrogations, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday in its annual report on the treatment of people in more than 70 countries."
"The human rights group based its conclusions mostly on statements by senior administration officials in the past year, and said President Bush's reassurances that the United States does not torture suspects were deceptive and rang hollow."
"Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, told reporters Wednesday that the 'U.S. disregard for human rights in the name of fighting terrorism' has actually hurt efforts to combat terror groups. He said it has robbed America of the moral high ground and bred resentment that 'has been a boon for terrorist recruiters.' "
"In a separate report, the organization strongly criticized three insurgent groups in Iraq; al Qaeda, Ansar al-Sunna and the Islamic Army, for targeting civilians with car bombs and suicide bombers in mosques, markets and bus stations." 01-06
- -01-28-06 Myths About the Challenger Shuttle Disaster (MSNBC News)
"It didn't explode, the crew didn't die instantly and it wasn't inevitable."
"The [astronaut's] cabin hit the surface [of the ocean] 2 minutes and 45 seconds after breakup, and all investigations indicate the crew was still alive until then." 01-06
- New Spaceship Design (NASA)
"Before the end of the next decade, NASA astronauts will again explore the surface of the moon. And this time, we're going to stay, building outposts and paving the way for eventual journeys to Mars and beyond. There are echoes of the iconic images of the past, but it won't be your grandfather's moon shot." 02-06
- E-85 Ethanol an Option Now (EthanolAcrossAmerica.net)
" 'Ethanol provides a wonderful short-term option because we can use corn today to make it, and have significant savings in terms of off-setting gasoline, and modest savings on a greenhouse gas level,' " says Professor Kammen at Berkeley."
"But some states, like California, are already moving to deliver E-85 to more gas stations by helping pay the cost of adding the E-85 pumps."
" 'The transition is pretty easy. It looks like its $30,000 to $40,000 per gas station to change over and have ethanol-dedicated pumps,' he says." 05-06
- -06-07-06 Iraq Releases Hundreds of Prisoners (USA Today)
"Hundreds of newly freed Iraqi prisoners kissed the ground after being dropped at bus stations Wednesday as Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki launched the largest such release since the U.S.-led invasion."
"Sunni Arab political leaders welcomed the initiative, which was intended to promote reconciliation in this fractured nation." 06-06
- -11-06-06 New Voting Machines Bode Trouble (Wall Street Journal)
"When Americans go to vote tomorrow, a new breed of activist will be on guard, monitoring polling stations for everything from voting-machine glitches to long lines to registration snafus." 11-06
- New Chinese Coal Plants Will Make Climate Change Almost Certain (BBC News)
"Coal built China - and fuels its relentless growth today. Eighty per cent of China's electricity comes from coal, and there are plans for 544 new coal-fired power stations to meet an insatiable demand for energy."
"Yet coal is a prime source of carbon dioxide - the global warming gas. If the power plants go ahead, it will be all but impossible to avoid dangerous climate change." 05-06
- 02-01-07 Thom Hartmann to Replace Al Frankin on Air America (BlueOregon.com)
"Yesterday, Al Franken announced that he'll end his run on Air America on February 14. He's widely reported to be considering running for the US Senate in Minnesota in 2008 - against Senator Norm Coleman (R)."
"In a number of communities across the country, the Al Franken Show had already been replaced by the nationally syndicated Thom Hartmann Show. Now, all the remaining Air America venues will also shift to the Thom Hartmann Show - extending Thom's reach to some 75-80 stations." 01-07
- -Cal Thomas, Conservative Syndicated Columnist (CalThomas.com)
"Cal Thomas is a conservative American syndicated columnist and author syndicated in over 550 newspapers and is heard on over 300 radio stations." 09-07
- -03-23-08 Transition From Analog to Digital TV (DTVTransition.org)
"If you currently receive analog television over the air or via an antenna, youll need to take action to continue watching your favorite stations [after February 17, 2009. TVs accessing 'pay' television service such as cable or satellite aren't likely to be affected by the switch." 3-08
- Sustainable Local Transportation System (Time.com)
"Among the perks offered to employees at Louis Vuitton in Paris is an annual subscription to Vιlib', the French capital's popular self-service bike-sharing program. Since it debuted last July, there have been 15 million rentals. So far there are 15,000 bikes at stations located about 1,000 ft. (300 m) apart throughout the city. But JCDecaux, the company that runs the service, expects to increase the number of bicycles to 20,000 in time for spring. Subscriptions are $44 per year, or bikes can be rented by the hour. The best deal of all, though, is the quick trip: rides under 30 minutes are free." 03-08
- -12-13-08 First "Clean" Coal Plant? (ABC News)
"Earlier this month, the world's first coal-fired power plant designed to capture and store carbon dioxide that it produces began operations in Spremberg [Germany]. The pilot plant has been built at a power station that, under Communist rule last century, used to belch out clouds of sulfurous smoke from burning brown coal, or lignite. 'Industrial history is being written,' says Tuomo Hatakka, chair of the European board of Vattenfall, the Swedish power company behind the new plant. Indeed, the development of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology is seen by many experts as essential to help the world cut carbon-dioxide emissions in coal-fired power stations." 12-08
- Green Concrete (Time.com)
"Not the cheap, gray, easily cracked, soulless stuff that gave urbanization a bad name when it was slathered over Western cities in the 1960s, but newfangled, bright and still relatively expensive concrete that has come onto the market this decade. High-performance or ultra-high-performance concrete, as it's known in the industry, is up to 10 times stronger than regular concrete. Although, pound-by-pound, it costs several times as much as regular concrete, industry officials say price comparisons are misleading because the high-tech versions have different properties that make them more comparable to materials such as stainless steel or aluminum which are often more expensive still. The latest concretes have other advantages, including setting much faster. That's giving architects, engineers and builders far greater flexibility to use the material's long-lasting, thermal and acoustic properties in everything from pedestrian bridges to bus stations and, in turn, contributing to big energy and other environmental savings. Some of the innovations are startling: the white concrete used by American architect Richard Meier for the Jubilee Church in Rome contains titanium dioxide, which keeps the concrete clean at the same time as destroying ambient pollutants such as car exhaust." 02-09
- -03-11-09 Discovery Ready for Launch (CNN News)
"This will be the 125th shuttle flight and the 36th for Discovery. The two-week mission will include four spacewalks to install the 31,000-pound final truss segment with two solar array wings. The final segment completes the backbone of the station, and the set of solar arrays will convert solar energy to electrical power, providing the capacity to generate enough power to maintain a full crew of six and increase scientific research on the [STS-119] station." 03-09
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- Study: Torture Is Widespread in Iraq (MSNBC News)
"The White House release of Bush administration torture memos marked another step towards closure in what President Obama called a 'dark and painful chapter in our history.' But in Iraq, torture is not a thing of the past, according to the findings of a new study on civilian causalities."
"Executions with firearms, not bomb blasts, have killed most civilians in Iraq. Researchers say 33% of the victims examined in the study died by execution after abduction or capture. And 29% of those victims had signs of torture on their bodies such as bruises, drill holes or burns. Suicide bombers in cars or on foot were responsible for 14% of the victims in the study, while U.S. airstrikes killed 4%."
"The Iraqi government has consistently faced accusations of torture and maltreatment of prisoners through the years and still does. The most recent human rights report from the U.N. Assistance Mission for Iraq cites 'continuing reports of the widespread and routine torture or ill-treatment of detainees, particularly those being held in pre-trial detention facilities, including police stations.' " 04-09
- Gas Turbine Technology (Enerby.IHS.com)
Gasification of coal or biomass requires the use of gas turbine generators or other methods to convert heat from burning gas to electricity. "Turbines generate electrical power both on a large scale (in 250 megawatts or larger central power stations) or on a small scale (in local, industrial power systems of 1 megawatt to 100 megawatts)." 06-09
- - Editorial: Why Elections in Afghanistan Were Never the Answer (Time.com)
"...Afghanistan is in the grip of a civil war that pits a U.S.-backed political establishment, which includes both Karzai and Abdullah, against the Taliban."
"No one actually voted for the Taliban, of course, and its call for a boycott of the poll was enforced by threat of death. But whether out of fear, political choice or sheer indifference, 12 million voters representing 70% of the electorate, compared with just 30% in 2004 stayed away from the ballot stations. A runoff election was expected to see an even smaller turnout."
The author concluded that "any political solution in Afghanistan will have be negotiated on the basis of the real distribution of power, rather than votes cast in an election staged in the heat of a civil war." 11-09
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