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Rick Cook

"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning."

Central Oregon Coast Bay Lights Up This Weekend

Central Oregon Coast Bay Lights Up This Weekend: "On December 6, from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., local lighted boats make a large loop around the bay, from the Coast Guard Station to the Embarcadero Resort and back, showing off a variety of colorful designs."

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President Elect's Weekly Address

Do You Know You're Having A Stroke?

Do You Know You're Having A Stroke?: "Stroke symptoms include:

* Sudden numbness, weakness, or paralysis of your face, arm or leg -- usually on one side of the body
* Sudden difficulty speaking or understanding speech (aphasia)
* Sudden blurred, double or decreased vision
* Sudden dizziness, loss of balance or loss of coordination
* A sudden, severe 'bolt out of the blue' headache or an unusual headache, which may be accompanied by a stiff neck, facial pain, pain between your eyes, vomiting or altered consciousness
* Confusion or problems with memory, spatial orientation or perception"

Coal Mining Debris Rule Is Approved - NYTimes.com

Coal Mining Debris Rule Is Approved - NYTimes.com: "The Environmental Protection Agency is trying to finish work on a rule that would make it easier for utilities to put coal-fired generating stations near national parks. It is working on another rule that would allow utility companies to modify coal-fired power plants and increase their emissions without installing new pollution-control equipment."

Coal Mining Debris Rule Is Approved - NYTimes.com

Coal Mining Debris Rule Is Approved - NYTimes.com: "Edward C. Hopkins, a policy analyst at the Sierra Club, said: “The E.P.A.’s own scientists have concluded that dumping mining waste into streams devastates downstream water quality. By signing off on this rule, the agency has abdicated its responsibility.”"

DailyTech - Hawaii Endorses Plan for Electric Cars

DailyTech - Hawaii Endorses Plan for Electric Cars: "Consumers who purchase or lease electric cars will be able to visit Better Place supply recharging service locations to switch out their lithium ion car battery for a full-charged new one. Better Place will then recharge the new battery during off-peak electricity hours."

Brains More Distracted, Not Slower with Age: Scientific American

Brains More Distracted, Not Slower with Age: Scientific American: "Adam Gazzaley of the University of California, San Francisco, and his colleagues asked two groups—one made up of 19- to 33-year-olds and the other of 60- to 72-year-olds—to perform a memory task. The researchers used electroencephalography to record electrical signals from the participants’ brains in milliseconds during the task. In contrast to the younger adults, the older group could not suppress distracting stimuli during the first 200 milliseconds after exposure. “At later time points, the ability to ignore does show up,” Gazzaley says. “It’s not abolished, just delayed.” By then, however, the irrelevant information had interfered with the memory task, making the older group less accurate overall than the younger group."

President Elect Obama's Transparentcy Web site

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http://change.gov/

Information Statement

Information Statement: M 6.2 135 SW EUREKA, CA. 1343Z NOV 28: Tsunami NOT expected

George Bernard Shaw

"Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve."

National Geographic News

teckron@gmail.com has sent you this story from National Geographic
News. We hope you enjoy it

MEDICARE COVERAGE

The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, 'Hello.'

'Mrs. Sanders, please.'

'Speaking.'

'Mrs. Sanders, this is Doctor Jones at Saint Agnes Laboratory.

When your husband's doctor sent his biopsy to the lab last week, a
biopsy from another Mr. Sanders arrived as well.

We are now uncertain which one belongs to your husband. Frankly,
either way the results are not too good.'

'What do you mean?' Mrs. Sanders asks nervously.

'Well, one of the specimens tested positive for Alzheimer's and the
other one tested positive for HIV. We can't tell which is which.'

'That's dreadful! Can you do the test again?' questioned Mrs.
Sanders.

'Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive
tests one time.'

'Well, what am I supposed to do now?'

'The folks at Medicare recommend that you drop your husband off
somewhere in the middle of town. If he finds his way home, don't sleep with him.'

Dear Sirs,

A letter to my bank:

In view of what seems to be happening internationally with banks at

the moment, I was wondering if you could advise me.

If one of my checks is returned marked

"Insufficient Funds," how do I know whether that refers to me or to you?

Please advise,

Information Statement

Information Statement: M 7.0 190 NW PETROPAVLOVSK, KAMCHATKA. 0903Z NOV 24: Tsunami NOT expected along US west coast,BC,and AK

Information Statement

Information Statement: M 6.5 SOUTHERN SUMATERA, INDONESIA 1612Z NOV 22: Tsunami NOT expected along US west coast,BC,and AK

Poetry review: “Fire to Fire” by Mark Doty | csmonitor.com

Poetry review: “Fire to Fire” by Mark Doty | csmonitor.com: "Striking imagery and a powerful imagination are two of his best tools, as evident in his earliest poems. When Doty writes about an Easter contest in “Ararat,” for example (from “Turtle, Swan,” 1987), he doesn’t recall an egg, but an oval full of glorious possibilities.

What might have coiled inside it?

Crocuses tight on their clock-springs,
a bird who’d sing himself into an angel
in the highest reaches of the garden,
the morning’s flaming arrow?

Any small thing can save you.
The descriptions are surprising yet spot-on, and the precise imagery provides the perfect balance for plainer, more conversational phrasing."

Information Statement

Information Statement: M 4.2 040 E ILIAMNA, AK. 0604Z NOV 21: Tsunami NOT expected