Copter Cam

Japan Robot Show

If Someone Knows Everything, Who Needs You?

"Somewhere"

Poverty-By-Formulae

Flood Barrier From Deer Island, Winthrop, MA To Pemberton Point, Hull, MA

Deer Island, Winthrop, MA: 42.344335°N, 70.953655°W

Pemberton Point, Hull, MA: 42.304382°N, 70.922177°W

Distance: 3.19 Miles (5.14 kilometers)

True Bearing: 149.8° / 329.8°

Magnetic Bearing: 165.8° / 345.8°

Venice Tests Massive Movable Flood Barrier

Consorzio Venezia Nuova

Defence From Floods And Environmental Protection

How Our Laws Are Made

Document	Abbreviation
92d Cong., 1st sess.	Ex. Rept. 9
92d Cong., 2d sess.	Ex. F
Executive document	Ex. Doc. B
House bill	H.R. 416
House concurrent resolution	H. Con Res. 10
House conference report	H. Conf. Rept. 10
House document	H. Doc. 35
House joint resolution	H.J. Res 21
House report	H. Rept. 214
House resolution	H. Res. 5
miscellaneous document	Misc. Doc. 16
Public law	Public Law 84, 102d Cong.
Senate bill	S. 116
Senate concurrent resolution	S. Con Res. 17
Senate document	S. Doc 62
Senate joint resolution	S.J. Res. 45
Senate report	S. Rept. 410
Senate resolution	S. Res 50
106th Cong., 1st sess.
1st sess., 106th Cong.
Private Law 68, 102d Cong.
Public Res. 47

U.S. Government Printing Office Style Manual: An official guide to the form and style of Federal Government

Titan the Robot

Optical Storage Media

List Of Common Audio Sample Rates

Sampling rate	Use
8,000 Hz	Telephone and encrypted walkie-talkie, wireless intercom[8][9] and wireless microphone[10] transmission; adequate for human speech but without sibilance; ess sounds like eff (/s/, /f/).
11,025 Hz	One quarter the sampling rate of audio CDs; used for lower-quality PCM, MPEG audio and for audio analysis of subwoofer bandpasses.[citation needed]
16,000 Hz	Wideband frequency extension over standard telephone narrowband 8,000 Hz. Used in most modern VoIP and VVoIP communication products.[11]
22,050 Hz	One half the sampling rate of audio CDs; used for lower-quality PCM and MPEG audio and for audio analysis of low frequency energy. Suitable for digitizing early 20th century audio formats such as 78s.[12]
32,000 Hz	miniDV digital video camcorder, video tapes with extra channels of audio (e.g. DVCAM with 4 Channels of audio), DAT (LP mode), Germany's Digitales Satellitenradio, NICAM digital audio, used alongside analogue television sound in some countries. High-quality digital wireless microphones.[13] Suitable for digitizing FM radio.[citation needed]
44,056 Hz	Used by digital audio locked to NTSC color video signals (245 lines by 3 samples by 59.94 fields per second = 29.97 frames per second).
44,100 Hz	Audio CD, also most commonly used with MPEG-1 audio (VCD, SVCD, MP3). Originally chosen by Sony because it could be recorded on modified video equipment running at either 25 frames per second (PAL) or 30 frame/s (using an NTSC monochrome video recorder) and cover the 20 kHz bandwidth thought necessary to match professional analog recording equipment of the time. A PCM adaptor would fit digital audio samples into the analog video channel of, for example, PAL video tapes using 588 lines by 3 samples by 25 frames per second.
47,250 Hz	world's first commercial PCM sound recorder by Nippon Columbia (Denon)
48,000 Hz	The standard audio sampling rate used by professional digital video equipment such as tape recorders, video servers, vision mixers and so on. This rate was chosen because it could deliver a 22 kHz frequency response and work with 29.97 frames per second NTSC video - as well as 25 frame/s, 30 frame/s and 24 frame/s systems. With 29.97 frame/s systems it is necessary to handle 1601.6 audio samples per frame delivering an integer number of audio samples only every fifth video frame.[7] Also used for sound with consumer video formats like DV, digital TV, DVD, and films. The professional Serial Digital Interface (SDI) and High-definition Serial Digital Interface (HD-SDI) used to connect broadcast television equipment together uses this audio sampling frequency. Most professional audio gear uses 48 kHz sampling, including mixing consoles, and digital recording devices.
50,000 Hz	First commercial digital audio recorders from the late 70s from 3M and Soundstream.
50,400 Hz	Sampling rate used by the Mitsubishi X-80 digital audio recorder.
88,200 Hz	Sampling rate used by some professional recording equipment when the destination is CD (multiples of 44,100 Hz). Some pro audio gear uses (or is able to select) 88.2 kHz sampling, including mixers, EQs, compressors, reverb, crossovers and recording devices.
96,000 Hz	DVD-Audio, some LPCM DVD tracks, BD-ROM (Blu-ray Disc) audio tracks, HD DVD (High-Definition DVD) audio tracks. Some professional recording and production gear is able to select 96 kHz sampling. This sampling frequency is twice the 48 kHz standard commonly used with audio on professional equipment.
176,400 Hz	Sampling rate used by HDCD recorders and other professional applications for CD production.
192,000 Hz	DVD-Audio, some LPCM DVD tracks, BD-ROM (Blu-ray Disc) audio tracks, and HD DVD (High-Definition DVD) audio tracks, High-Definition audio recording devices and audio editing software. This sampling frequency is four times the 48 kHz standard commonly used with audio on professional video equipment.
352,800 Hz	Digital eXtreme Definition, used for recording and editing Super Audio CDs, as 1-bit DSD is not suited for editing. Eight times the frequency of 44.1 kHz.
2,822,400 Hz	SACD, 1-bit delta-sigma modulation process known as Direct Stream Digital, co-developed by Sony and Philips.
5,644,800 Hz	Double-Rate DSD, 1-bit Direct Stream Digital at 2x the rate of the SACD. Used in some professional DSD recorders.

Resolutions

Disqualify The Abrogating Woman

Weather In Motion

SH-S1

SD (top), miniSD (Middle), microSD(Bottom) Cards

Ogallala Aquifer

About 27 percent of the irrigated land in the United States overlies the aquifer, which yields about 30 percent of the ground water used for irrigation in the United States.

Since 1950, agricultural irrigation has reduced the saturated volume of the aquifer by an estimated 9%.

Depletion is accelerating, with 3% lost between 2001 and 2008 alone.

Certain aquifer zones are now empty; these areas will take over 100,000 years to replenish naturally through rainfall.

David Parsons & Daniel Ezralow - Brothers

Earth, A Chance Of 1 In 13 Trillion - Multiples Of Earths' Coalescence, In The Volume Of Spherical Space, Within The Cubed Radius Of 93 Million Miles, Surrounding The Sun

803 x 10²¹ Radius Miles³ (93 Million Miles Cubed)
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 62 x 10⁹ Radius Miles³ (3959 Miles Cubed)

= 12.95 x 10¹² Multiples Of Earths' Coalescence

Assuming The Earthly Matter Doesn't Collapse Under Its Own Weight!

The Red Supergiant Star, UY Scuti, If Placed At The Center Of The Solar System, It Would Engulf All The Planets All The Way To Jupiter, Filling More Than Halfway Through Saturn's Orbit.

Germany Is Playing Like The U.S. Won WWII For Telecom Money! (Also See, Running Scared From Pakistan)

Pedego Electric Bikes Rhode Island

MBTA Commuter Rail > Providence/Stoughton Line > TF Green Airport > Radisson Hotel > RIPTA Bus #14 > Phillips St. (Opposite Boone Street) > Pedego Electric Bikes 1 Brown St. Wickford, RI 02852

Map From Pedego Electric Bikes To Rhode Island Bay Cruises

Free Bradley Manning Now!

Bradley Manning’s Excessive Sentence (8/21/13)

The 35-year sentence a military judge imposed on Pfc. Bradley Manning Wednesday morning was in some sense a vindication of his defense: following his conviction last month on charges of violating the Espionage Act, Private Manning faced up to 90 years in prison.

He had previously pleaded guilty to lesser versions of those crimes that exposed him to 20 years behind bars.

For a defense lawyer, a sentence of one-third the potential maximum is usually not a bad outcome.

But from where we sit, it is still too much, given his stated desire not to betray his country but to encourage debate on American aims and shed light on the “day to day” realities of the American war effort.

Certainly, Private Manning faced punishment.

In providing more than 700,000 government files to WikiLeaks — extensive excerpts of which were published in The New York Times and other publications — he broke the law and breached his responsibility as a military intelligence analyst to protect those files.

It was by far the biggest leak of classified documents in U.S. history, and thus it is not surprising that the punishment would be the longest ever on record for leaking such information.

But 35 years is far too long a sentence by any standard.

In more than two weeks of hearings, government lawyers presented vague and largely speculative claims that Private Manning’s leaks had endangered lives and “chilled” diplomatic relations.

On the other hand, much of what Private Manning released was of public value, including a video of a military helicopter shooting at two vans and killing civilians, including two Reuters journalists.

By comparison, First Lt. Michael Behenna was sentenced to 25 years for the 2008 killing of an unarmed Iraqi man who was being questioned about suspected terrorist activities.

Lieutenant Behenna’s sentence has since been cut to 15 years.

Private Manning has already been held for more than three years, nine months of which were in solitary confinement.

It is some comfort that he has several opportunities to avoid serving out his full term — including a sentence reduction by a military appeals court; the possibility of parole, for which he will be eligible in about eight years; or a grant of clemency by a board that considers requests from service members.

Army Col. Denise R. Lind, the judge who sentenced Private Manning, also reduced his rank to the lowest in the military and dishonorably discharged him.

Those are appropriate punishments.

But the larger issue, which is not resolved by Private Manning’s sentencing, is the federal government’s addiction to secrecy and what it will do when faced with future leaks, an inevitability when 92 million documents are classified in a year and more than 4 million Americans have security clearance.

In their drastic attempt to put Private Manning away for most of the rest of his life, prosecutors were also trying to discourage other potential leakers, but as the continuing release of classified documents by Edward Snowden shows, even the threat of significant prison time is not a deterrent when people believe their government keeps too many secrets.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/22/opinion/bradley-mannings-sentence-is-excessive.html?_r=0

Video Of Physical Features

Hey! Do Your Own Self-Esteem On Your Own Time!

Rain Gauge

Society of the Descendants of the Founders of Hartford

The Only Child Born In The Entire Year

Someone Who Perishes Today, Doesn't Flip Your Hamburgers Tomorrow!

The Military, Using Explosions To Get What They Want, Worried About Sexual Harassment?

That's A Double Negative!

Victimology - Ninth Of The Ten Commandments

Pretending To Be On The Defensive Is Bearing False Witness Against Thy Neighbor!

Epidemiology

The WWW Virtual Library: Medicine and Health: Epidemiology

Fly-By-Night Floozy

Immigration Bringing Aids From Africa!

Draconian Means, "Shoot Everybody Because There's Probably A Crook Out There Somewhere!"

Sirens Are Not Panic Buttons!

GPS Tracking Key

Verify Emergency Responses By Monitoring Siren And Light Activations

Siren Triggered Vehicle Tracking Device Puts The Stops On Ambulance Joyride

Technology Has Provided That Every Time An Officer Turns On His/Her Siren They Have To Fill Out A Report!
GPS Fleet Tracker - Comparable To Pulling A False Alarm?
Brickhouse Security

The Word "Family" Is The Antithesis Of The Word "Public"!

Hillary Wants To Handle You!

Specific Tensile Strength Of Various Materials