THE PRIOR POST IS WHAT I AM CONCENTRATING ON NOW. THIS POST I WILL POST SOME MORE PHOTOS OF A CUT OUT PIECE OF DENIM VERY MUCH LIKE THE TWO THAT I KEEP IN MY DESK DRAWER FOR PATCHING PANTS. THE OTHER WAS PLACED ON THE WASHING MACHINE.
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| WHAT MIGHT BE WRONG WITH THE WASHER. THIS IS REALLY PREATY GOOD, NO WADS OF HAIR AND SMALL PLASTIC BAGS, TOOTH PASTE, UH, THE TUBES ECT. OH, AND OF COURSE, FECES. HOW ARE YOUR KIDS DOING? |
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| I HAVE A PIC OF THE PATCHES THAT I USE NEXT TO TREAD, BUT I WANT TO LET THE ' SUSPENSE ' BUILD UP IN REGARDS TO MY ' BUTTONS BEING PUSHED.' YES, I NO THIS IS A WORLD EVENT ! |
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| ' WHITEWASH,' SUSPENSE AGAIN, YES I HAVE A PIC OF THE ' UNDER THE SINK ! ' AFTER THREE MONTHS OF HOW CAN IT BE LEAKING ? MANAGEMENT AFTER REPEATED ' SUGGESTIONS ,' THAT THE BIG HOLE IN THE PIPE REPAIRED WITH DUCK TAPE, AN IDEA OF SOMEONE WHO LIVED HERE AND PAID, IT WAS FOUND THAT THE IDEA OF A PROPER REPAIR, EXCEPTED BY MOST, MIGHT, MAYBE, KINDA SORTA, PERHAPS......WORK. FOR A FEW DAYS. |
AND HERE'S THE LONG AWAITED ' UNDERBELLY AND RUBICS CUBE OF ALL PROBABLE CAUSES '
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| END TO SOUTHERN ENGINEERING, WITH 'CEPTION TO NORTHERN, WHICH WOULD OF MEANT THAT THE REPAIR WOULD OF BEEN ' UPSIDE DOWN, AS OPPOSED TO ' SIDE WIDE OR RIGHT, WITH A SLANT, END DOWN,' OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. I JUST SAW THIS REPAIR IN A ' BOOK.' YEP. A ' BOOK,' NOT THE ALTER EGO, ' CELL PHONE,' THAT I GUESS, COULD BE ' GOOGLED.' |
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| I PATCH MY CLOTHES, I DON'T THROW THEM AWAY. I HARDLY ' GIVE ' ANYTHING AWAY. WITH EXCEPTION TO REAL HELP WHEN PEOPLE NEED IT. |
' FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT ' ONCE AGAIN OF MANAGEMENT OF THE SRO AND NEIGHBORHOOD AND OWNERS OF BOTH THE MASONIC TEMPLE AND THE EL PASO CHIHUAHUA CRACK HOUSE BASEBALL STADIUM, I WAS FINELY ABLE TO WASH MY SLEEPING BAG. URINE WAS THE PROBLEM. PAIN AND IBUPROFEN USE THE CAUSE. THE MELDING OF THE ' INSANE ' EX-CONS AND HOMOSEXUALS AND THEIR STREET CLIENTS ARE ALMOST NULL; EXEMPT OF LIGHT IN MY MIND. I JUST SEE SHADOWS OF OUTLINE.
NOW THE ROOM SMELLS LESS LIKE MEDICINE. IBUPROFEN.
IN YOUR FACE ( RADIO ANNOUNCER MIGHT AS WELL BE A DEMOCRAT )
THE RADIO PROGRAM THAT I SOMETIMES LISTEN TO AND HAVE LEARNED NOT TO, ONCE AGAIN PROVED ' MORE THAN COINCIDENCE,' AND I ' VENTED,' NICE AND HOT ( I SAID SOMETHING ). BUT IN MY ROOM. I FORGOT TO TAKE THE BATTERY OUT OF THE LG PHONE, OVER NIGHT. THIS HAS HAPPENED TO MANY TIMES TO COUNT. IT IS JUST TECHNOLOGY, INVASION OF PRIVACY, AND USE OF APPLE CELL PHONES AND SAMSUNG ( SRO ) AND MY OWN. I KEEP MY PHONE ON IN CASE I NEED TO CALL POLICE, EVEN THOUGH I HAVE BEEN TOLD TO NEVER CALL POLICE WHILE LIVING AT THE MISSOURI STREET ADDRESS BY MANAGEMENT.
THE PICTURES OF THE SINK ( WILL BE POSTED SOON ) ARE FUNNY IN AND OF WHAT MOST PEOPLE WOULD CALL ' SOUTHERN ENGINEERING.' REALLY JUST SAVING A SHIT LOAD OF ' MONIES.'
THERE IS AN EXTRAORDINARY AMOUNT OF MONIES EARMARKED FOR THE ' HOMELESS SHELTERS ' UNDER WHICH ALOT OF THESE BUSINESS'S FALL TO CATEGORY.
I DIDN'T PUT THE CEILING FAN IN THE ROOM ( NORMAN T. ) AND REALLY DON'T NEED IT. IT HAS BEEN REMOVED, OH THAT SMILE WHEN I WAS FIRST TOLD IT WOULD BE REMOVED. I LEFT THE ' REPAIR MAN IN THE ROOM ALONE ' WHEN THEY ARRIVED UNANNOUNCED, NO WRITTEN NOTICE, TO TAKE IT OUT. EVERYTHING BEEN GONE THROUGH ANYWAY.
SO, IN THE END, THE LAST POST WILL BE EDITED DOWN TO WHAT I REMEMBER ABOUT ' LEAVE ' IN THE COAST GUARD. THE ' PAYMENT THEN REMOVAL OF MONIES ' IF ANY AND COUPLE OF LICENSE PLATE NUMBERS.
VETERANS DON'T COUNT IN THE LANDOWNER'S EYE, ONLY ' FECES.' AND THEY ARE EITHER A ' MARK ' TOO OR ' JUST BUSINESSMEN ' IN THE SENSE OF ' GODFATHER.'
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' CIRCLES WITHIN CIRCLES '
I WILL POST AGAIN THE IMPRESSIONS OF WHAT I SAW AND PUT DOWN ON PAPER SO MANY YEARS AGO IN ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO.
YOU WILL NEVER BELIEVE HOW THIS ALL ENDS UP WORKING.
REUTERS 4-10-2015
Liquid metal discovery paves way for shape-shifting robots
BEIJING, CHINA - It may look like nothing more than a small ball of metal, but the shape-shifting and self-propulsion abilities of a liquid metal alloy discovered by scientists at China's Tsinghua University has captured the imaginations of scientists and science-fiction fans across the world.
Professor Liu Jing and his team have created what they believe could prove the first step toward developing a robot similar to the infamous T-1000 shape-shifting, liquid metal assassin from the Terminator movies.
The device is made from a drop of metal alloy consisting mostly of gallium, which is a liquid at just under 30 degrees Celsius. Last year they discovered that an applied electrical current causes the gallium alloy to drastically alter its shape. Changing the voltage applied to the metal allowed it to 'shape-shift' into different formations. When the current was switched off, the metal returned to its original drop shape.
But the team made their biggest breakthrough when they realized that bringing it into contact with a flake of aluminum caused a reaction creating hydrogen bubbles that allowed it to move of its own accord. Liu said it was able to 'fuel' itself for about an hour.
"The machine has two processes. One is to create gases like hydrogen. Part of these gases form the propulsion. There's also something important, in fact very important, which is the electricity generated behind the alloy. So this galvanic battery creates an internal electrical power, and this type of electricity will very easily lead to stretching of the surface of the liquid metal in an asymmetrical pattern, and this pattern leads to rotations inside the liquid metal, and the process of these rotations will set the liquid metal in motion in a certain direction," he said.
While the scientists are still learning more about the properties of the metal, Liu believes it could have a variety of medical applications, for example delivering medicine in blood vessels.
"At present it has potential to become a robot, but a robot for the veins. So apart from a robot for the veins it could for example [be used in] people's windpipes and digestive system, it may perhaps be able to carry out some medical tasks, for example transporting some medicines," he said, adding that scientists would of course first have to ensure that there would be no side-effects to ingesting the metal.
As for comparisons to the deadly machine in the Terminator movies, Liu said that while the thought of his discovery bearing resemblance to the T-1000 did make him chuckle, he hoped that his robot would work for the good of mankind.
"Perhaps people think it's like the Terminator but I think to a certain extent the Terminator's not very good, he wasn't good for mankind. So we hope that if in the future we can really make a soft robot, we hope that it can be a more human-like robot," he said.
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4 - 14 - 2015
A new crisis is brewing between two nuclear-armed neighbors
By Tom Rogan April 14, 2015
Tags: INDIA | LASHKAR-E-TAIBA | MUMBAI ATTACK | NUCLEAR | PAKISTAN
A supporter of Shiv Sena, a Hindu hardline group, holds Pakistan’s national flag and a portrait of Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi during a protest against Lakhvi’s release, in New Delhi, April 11, 2015. Lakhvi’s group, Lashkar-e-Taiba, is believed to have been behind an attach that killed 166 people in Mumbai in 2008. REUTERS/Anindito Mukherjee
India and Pakistan each possess more than 100 nuclear warheads. Their political establishments really don’t like each other. Correspondingly, we should always pay heed to tensions between the two nations.
A new crisis is brewing.
Last week, India announced it will establish protected settlements to rehouse about 200,000 Hindus in the Kashmir Valley. Forced out of Indian Kashmir by Pakistan-supported Islamists in 1989-1990, the displaced citizens are a priority for Narendra Modi’s Hindu-nationalist government. Conversely, Islamist protests illustrate opposition to Hindu empowerment. India and Pakistan have been fighting over the province of Kashmir since independence from Britain in 1947; they have fought three wars over it, in fact.
Then on Friday, Pakistan released Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, ringleader of the 2008 Mumbai attacks that killed 166 people across India’s financial capital. While Pakistan’s primary intelligence service, the Inter-Services Intelligence agency, has protected Lakhvi from prosecution, his release is striking. Because Pakistan knows that India knows that Lakhvi’s group, Lashkar-e-Taiba, benefits from the spy agency’s support, guidance and shelter. And it’s releasing him anyway.
Believing men like Lakvhi can undercut India’s regional influence, the ISI’s pro-extremist element is flexing its muscles by releasing him. The problem, however, is that it’s not just Lakhvi on the loose. With an array of terrorist groups under its thumb — elements of the Haqqani network and the Pakistani Taliban, for two — the ISI has a terror portfolio with which to wreak havoc. And as attested by the 2001 attack on the Indian parliament, the spy agency has repeatedly proven its support for groups that risk war. Lakhvi’s release is both a physical threat and a possible signal of increasing Pakistani aggression. It illustrates the looming danger in near-term India-Pakistan relations.
Regardless, the present crisis is centrally connected to Kashmir.
As evidenced by statements from Pakistan’s powerful army chief, General Raheel Sharif, and recent exchanges of fire, and with India now building Hindu-sectarian influence in the region, the risk of conflict between the two nations is increasingly real. Still, with Pakistan openly paranoid about India’s greater power, the country’s leaders are likely to regard what’s happening in Kashmir as a reflection of a broader Indian plan to weaken Pakistan.
Pakistan’s hardline anti-India factions will push for a tough response. While General Sharif has shown courage in previously confronting the hard-liners, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s weakness means that he has few reliable allies; the potential for escalation is thus significant. This mix of fear and emotion is at the heart of Pakistani politics and explains why successive governments have been either unwilling or unable to counter terrorist fanatics.
In addition, with Modi in New Delhi, this Indian government is far less tolerant of Pakistani terrorism than its predecessor. A repeat Mumbai 2008 would ignite a far stronger response. The risk is that Pakistan may gamble otherwise.
There is a central reality of international relations at stake here: Extremism is a political toxin that, unconfronted by strong leadership, risks disaster. Whatever happens, we’re left with a tragic truth. Four months after hundreds of school children were brutally murdered, Pakistan is re-energizing its demented waltz with terror.
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