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POPSSearch for Extra Dimensions in the Universe
continues: For example, black holes created at the LHC would be expected to start off spinning. The spinning of the black hole increases the fraction of the black hole's mass that is dissipated as gravitons–elementary quanta of gravity, which could be used to provide a clue to the existence and structure of extra dimensions. Black holes are being studied with BlackMax by members of the ATLAS Experiment at LHC, one of the two principal large particle detectors at the new collider. Case Western Reserve physicists working with Glenn Starkman on the project are his former doctoral student Dejan Stojkovic, now a visiting professor on the faculty of the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo, and De-Chang Dai, who recently graduated with his doctoral degree in physics, and is now a postdoctoral fellow working with Stojkovic. Other collaborators are experimental physicists Cigdem Issever and Jeff Tseng of Oxford University and Eram Rizvi from Queen Mary College at the University of
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POPSSprouting from an Acorn Editorial writers from Little Rock to Buffalo condemned ACORN's action as an affront to both civility and freedom of speech. Editorialists also pointed out that the "spending cuts" the protesters railed against were imaginary - Gingrich proposed merely to slow the growth in some welfare programs and turn control back to the states. Yet ACORN had only just begun. Two days later, 50 to 100 of the same protesters hit their main target - a House Banking subcommittee considering changes to the Community Reinvestment Act, a law that allows groups like ACORN to force banks into making high-risk loans to low-credit customers. The CRA's ostensible purpose is to prevent banks from discriminating against minorities. But Rep. Marge Roukema (R-NJ), who chaired the subcommittee, was worried that charges of discrimination had become an excuse for lowering credit standards. She warned that new, Democrat-proposed CRA regulations could amount to an illegal quota system.
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POPSAlmost Gone The International Union for Conservation of Nature has released its Red List of the world's most threatened plants and animals. Here's a look at some of the animals on the verge of extinction
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POPSSBOA Firm has Co-Op experience The firm working on the SBOA project has experience woking with cooperative development, apparently. Just perusing their website I have noticed that they list several "citizen/ cooperative groups" from their past work. This gives me hope that an attempt to talk to them about a community participatory development project in the SBOA, resulting in extensive urban green space, cooperative housing, integrated with ecodesign, living machines, food production, and historical preservation— might not be fruitless.
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POPSEcocity Images We will one day add EcoHood Buffalo to this growing body of living city plans. I hope that day is not too far off.
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POPSChief Seattle's Thoughts Indigenous people have a wisdom, a way, that would seem to be the very thing that white fellas are so often yearning for. Keep It Simple Stupid!
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POPSJohn McCain: A Veteran against Veterans He takes on the mantle of veteran for political reasons. He's got some nerve accusing Barack Obama of playing politics. That's McCain's M.O. as betrayer MA/POWs and their families so that his father-in-law could sell more beer. I wonder how many houses McCain's back-stabbing bought.
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POPSJohn McCain Record of Vet Support Just Another Buffalo Chip McCain voted against increasing VA funding by $1.8 billion by ending abusive tax loopholes The man even voted against giving combat duty troops more time at home between extended tours. John McCain had the gall to not only be rude, but to lie to a vet about his record of endorsements from veteran groups and then had the nerve to refuse further questioning on the issue: "I’ve been endorsed in every election by every veterans organization that do that, I’ve been supported by them, and I’ve received their highest awards from all of those organizations. So I guess they don’t know something you know." Later, during his town hall meeting, McCain admitted he does “not have a perfect voting record,” and then announced questions about veterans issues were off limits: “I will be glad to debate a lot of things, but not that one,” http://thinkprogress.org/2008/07/08/mccain-veteran...
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