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Saturday, March 29, 2014

Distant galaxy cluster is so huge it can actually bend light

MACS J0454.1-0300 is 180 trillion times the mass of our sun

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Tuesday, March 25, 2014

This pickle chandelier is a delightfully mystifying take on alternative light bulbs

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Monday, March 24, 2014

Could Microgrids Bring Light to Billions Without Electricity?

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Monday, March 17, 2014

READ: Excerpt from "A Sliver of Light" Ahead of Tuesday"s Extended Interview with Iran Hikers

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Friday, February 28, 2014

Special Report: Street Surveillance Is Here, LED Light Spies

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February 28, 2014

A New Jersey airport sets up “Energy Efficient” Lights that also spy on travelers before they even get to the ticket counter.

These “energy-efficient” upgrades are popping up all over the country, helping the mass surveillance apparatus save money while stealing liberties.

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Saturday, February 22, 2014

‘Six Californias’ initiative to split up most populous US state gets green light

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Monday, February 17, 2014

Will The False Flag Event At The Superbowl Get The Green Light ?- Episode 278

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Sunday, February 16, 2014

Lumen Octave: Magnetize the Soul Using Internal Light + Sound

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Sunday, February 2, 2014

US-Funded Hospital in Afghanistan Has 3 Light Bulbs, Forces Staff to Wash Newborns in River Water

A hospital in Afghanistan’s Parwan province, which cost US taxpayers almost $ 600,000, is so ill-equipped, hospital staff are washing newborn infants using untreated river water, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) reported on Wednesday. SIGAR’s visit, which was conducted in November 2013 (photos here), also found mold and mildew throughout the hospital; a lack of furniture and equipment; a serious risk for earthquake damage; and only enough electricity to operate three light bulbs in the entire facility.

In 2009, a local Afghan contractor, Shafi Hakimi Construction Company, was commissioned to build Salang Hospital as part of a Department of Defense-funded reconstruction program. When a US Forces-Afghanistan (USFOR-A) task force first inspected the hospital when it was under construction in 2012, they determined it had major problems and residents of Salang district wouldn’t have adequate healthcare until they were fixed. In November 2012, the contractor was paid in full. But when SIGAR inspected a year later, it found “the deficiencies identified by the task force had not been corrected.”

NBC News, which recently visited the facility, observed “desperate” hospital staff attempting to administer dental care to a 12-year-old girl—even though they only had access to six pieces of rusty dental equipment. As NBC described it: “The girl was shivering with fear, and began crying after the doctor gave her a shot in her gums. Another man held her still as Sarwy swiftly tilted her head back, opened her mouth and yanked out one of her teeth with a pair of pliers.”

Hospital staff told SIGAR that they are paying about $ 18 a month of their own money to a neighbor, in order to get enough electricity to operate the three light-bulbs in the hospital. Additionally, SIGAR found that the contractor built the hospital two stories high, instead of one, without authorization from US officials or further study. “The hospital does not serve the medical needs of the people of Salang district as intended and may be a danger to its patients and staff because of the potential for the structure’s collapse in an earthquake,” the report reads.

This account differs sharply with a press release put out by US Forces-Afghanistan yesterday, which argued that despite the SIGAR report, “the facility is currently providing improved medical services” and noted that, “local ministry officials are currently in the process of hiring a surgeon and other staff and have installed a solar power generation unit.” John Sopko, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, told NBC, “either no one from USFOR-A has actually visited this facility recently or USFOR-A is living in an alternate reality.”

Mother Jones has reached out to US Forces-Afghanistan to find out when they last visited the facility. According to a January 21 US Army document obtained by Mother Jones, US forces have been unable to conduct a physical re-inspection of the hospital since the SIGAR notified them of their findings on January 3, due to “reduced combat forces [and] threats in the area.” â€‹

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Sunday, December 22, 2013

Red Light Cameras On The Decline, As Everyone Realizes They Don’t Make Roads Safer, They Just Make Money

Tech Dirt – by Mike Masnick

For many years we’ve written about the problems of red light cameras. Installed over the past few years in many cities, the public statements supporting them were always about increased safety on our roads. However, as we’ve noted, plenty of studies showed that the cameras actually tended to increase accidents, showed little to no safety benefit, and were almost always driven by monetary incentives. Because of this, there were numerous reports of various municipalities actually deciding to decrease the time on yellow lights, thereby getting more money from tickets, but massively increasing the safety risk. Multiple studies have shown that the one way to make intersections safer is to increase the yellow light time — but in order to make more money, many were decreasing it (often below legal limits).

The anger over these tactics has been increasing quite a bit over the past few years and a variety of cities decided to cancel their programs, causing the leading company providing these systems (who takes a large cut of every ticket), Redflex, to face some financial difficulties.

It appears that the trends are definitely against red light cameras. Cyrus Farivar has a great article (though, annoyingly paginated) about the decline in red light cameras, noting that 2013 was the first year where more red light camera systems were turned off than turned on.

Redflex’s US operations took a hit in 2013 as the company installed 54 new systems—but removed 101. Redflex’s recent fiscal report (PDF) shows that its after-tax net profits in a six-month period have dropped by half: plummeting from $ 7.1 million in the first half of 2012 to $ 3.6 million in the first six months of 2013.

Meanwhile, the article also takes on the various “competing studies” concerning red light cameras, and pointing to one study that compared a whole bunch of the studies, evaluated their methodologies, and found that the ones that showed benefits to red light cameras, almost invariably had dreadful methodologies that didn’t take into account the basic variability in accidents at any given intersection, and the likelihood of a return to the mean (in short: intersections with an abnormally large number of accidents frequently see that amount go down the following year — and red light camera makers and the studies supporting them rarely took into account that variability, but assigned such a decrease to the cameras). When correcting for such problems, the study of studies found the data showed that red light cameras are a problem, not a solution:

The meta-analysis concluded that, when only the best studies were considered, “The results of the meta-analysis are rather unfavorable for RLCs… According to the results from these studies, right-angle collisions are reduced by about 10 percent, rear-end collisions increase significantly by about 40 percent, and the overall effect on all types of crashes is an increase by about 15 percent. Only studies with weaker study designs yield results that are more favorable for RLCs.”

The study which those researches said had the best methodology also found significant negative impact overall:

the increase in costs from the increase in rear-end crashes more than offset the reduction in costs from the decrease in red light running crashes.

Hopefully, this is the beginning of the end for red light cameras. We’re all for making intersections safer, but the way to do that is to increase the time on yellow lights — and for places that still don’t have this: have a brief interval where lights in both directions are red, rather than switching simultaneously to red in one direction and green in the other. And yes, every time I make that last point, people who don’t live in places where that’s the case marvel that any place in the world has this, but it’s true in many, many places. Switching that to having an interval with both directions red, plus a longer yellow light, will actually make people safer, and yet… it doesn’t make any more money, so very few have been willing to make this simple switch.

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Red Light Cameras On The Decline, As Everyone Realizes They Don’t Make Roads Safer, They Just Make Money

Friday, December 6, 2013

"CRAB Lab" Sheds Light on Navigating Tricky Terrain

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Monday, November 18, 2013

TREASURIES-U.S. bonds rise; light buyside bid for 3-month bills

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* Record highs on Wall Street restrain gains for safe-haven debt

* Lightest buyside demand for 3-month bill auction since July

* Three-month bills to mature after Feb. 7 debt ceiling mark

* Retail sales, consumer price, home sales data due on Wednesday

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NEW YORK, Nov 18 (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury debt prices rose on Monday, supported by the prospect of “easy” monetary policy, but gains were limited by investors’ preference for riskier assets.

U.S. stocks advanced as the Dow and the S&P 500 climbed to record highs, reacting to prospects for continued economic stimulus from the Federal Reserve.

Continued reaction to comments from the likely next Fed Chairperson Janet Yellen drove the Treasury market’s gains, said Kevin Giddis, head of fixed income capital markets head at Raymond James.

Better buying in the middle of the maturity curve from international real money accounts and curve flattening trades from various accounts were two features of the trading, said Thomas di Galoma, co-head of fixed income rates at ED&F Man Capital in New York.

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The Treasury’s weekly sales of three- and six-month bills resulted in the lightest buyside demand since July for three-month bills, said Stone & McCarthy Research Associates analyst Cathy Guo.

The six-month bills drew a better bid than the three-month bills.

“The maturity date of the three-month bills in late February may have something to do with it, but investors will be cautious with front-end investments around the time that the debt ceiling is reinstated,” said Thomas Simons, vice president and money market economist at Jefferies in New York.

As of now, the Treasury is allowed to issue as much debt as needed through Feb. 7. At that point, Congress must raise the debt limit to let the Treasury increase the total amount of official borrowing.

The benchmark 10-year Treasury note rose 7/32, leaving its yield at 2.69 percent.

Absent fresh economic data, there was little besides the backdrop of monetary accommodation and the lure of riskier assets to guide the U.S. Treasury market on Monday.

Wednesday is the first day of the week offering a basket of fresh economic data. Figures on October retail sales, consumer prices, and home sales are due that day.

“Wednesday is when the fireworks could begin: Retail sales, the consumer price index, existing home sales and minutes from the October 29-30 Fed policy meeting could make trading U.S. government securities quite interesting,” Giddis said.

The 30-year bond rose 15/32 in price at 99-19/32 for a yield of 3.77 percent.

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Friday, August 30, 2013

DOJ green light for Wash., Colo. pot reformers

Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee, left, is joined by state Attorney General Bob Ferguson as he talks to the media in Olympia, Wash. about the federal government’s announcement that it will not sue to stop Washington and Colorado from taxing and regulating recreational marijuana for adults, on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013. Last fall, voters made both states the first in the country to legalize the sale of marijuana to adults over 21 at state-licensed stores. The states are creating rules for the system, with sales expected to begin early next year. (AP Photo/Rachel La Corte)

FILE – In this in Dec. 31, 2012 file photo, Rachel Schaefer of Denver smokes marijuana on the official opening night of Club 64, a marijuana-specific social club, where a New Year’s Eve party was held, in Denver. According to new guidance being issued Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013 to federal prosecutors across the country, the federal government will not make it a priority to block marijuana legalization in Colorado or Washington or close down recreational marijuana stores, so long as the stores abide by state regulations. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

FILE – In this April 20, 2013 file photo, members of a crowd numbering tens of thousands smoke marijuana and listen to live music, at the Denver 420 pro-marijuana rally at Civic Center Park in Denver. The U.S. government said Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013 that the federal government will not make it a priority to block marijuana legalization in Colorado or Washington or close down recreational marijuana stores, so long as the stores abide by state regulations. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)

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SEATTLE (AP) â€” For generations, pot crusaders have called for an end to the nation’s prohibition of marijuana, citing everything from what they say are the government’s exaggerated claims about its dangers to the racial disparities in who gets busted for drug possession.

Now, they will get their chance in Colorado and Washington state to show that legalizing pot is better, less costly and more humane than the last 75 years of prohibition â€” all with the federal government’s blessing.

In a sweeping new policy statement, the Justice Department said Thursday it will not stand in the way of states that want to legalize, tax and regulate marijuana as voters in Washington and Colorado did last fall, as long as there are effective controls to keep marijuana away from kids, the black market and federal property.

“It’s nothing short of historic,” said Dan Riffle of the Marijuana Policy Project, which backed Colorado’s new law. “It’s a very big deal for the DOJ to say that if the states want to legalize marijuana, that’s fine. Everybody in this movement should be thrilled.”

It won’t just be the White House watching to make sure Washington and Colorado get it right. Voters in Oregon and Alaska could weigh marijuana legalization measures next year, and several states could face ballot questions in 2016, activists say.

Meanwhile, Latin and South American countries are also considering pot reform, and the Obama administration’s stance on Washington’s and Colorado’s laws could embolden them, said Ethan Nadelmann, executive director of the New York-based Drug Policy Alliance, which supported Washington’s law. Uruguay has already approved plans to license marijuana growers and shops.

The DOJ’s decision came nearly 10 months after the votes in Washington and Colorado, and officials in those states had been forging ahead to make rules for their new industries without knowing whether the federal government would sue to block sales from ever taking place on the grounds that they conflict with federal law.

Licensed, taxed marijuana sales in the two states are due to start next year, and officials have estimated they could raise tens or hundreds of millions of dollars for state coffers.

The administration’s guidance laid out eight federal law enforcement priorities that states need to protect if they want to authorize “marijuana-related conduct.” They include keeping marijuana in-state, off the black market, and away from children; preventing violence and gun crimes related to marijuana distribution; and preventing drugged driving.

The DOJ noted that it simply doesn’t have the resources to police all violations of federal marijuana law, and so it would focus on entities that threaten those priorities. If a state’s enforcement efforts don’t work, the feds could sue to block the state’s entire pot-regulating scheme, Deputy Attorney General James Cole wrote in a memo to all 94 U.S. attorneys around the country.

The priorities are similar to the factors the Justice Department has previously considered in determining whether to shut down medical marijuana dispensaries. But the memo also clarifies that just because a regulated marijuana operation is big and profitable isn’t reason enough to raid it.

Peter Bensinger, a former head of the Drug Enforcement Administration, criticized the announcement, saying the conflict between federal and state law can’t be reconciled. Federal law is paramount, and Attorney General Eric Holder is “not only abandoning the law, he’s breaking the law,” Bensinger said.

Some in the marijuana-reform community also criticized the memo, noting it did not represent a fundamental change in the law, which would require the approval of Congress.

“It’s like, ‘We’re going to be tolerant of this as long as we feel like it,’” argued Seattle marijuana defense attorney Douglas Hiatt. “Is a new administration just going to come in and shut it down?”

But others pointed to language in the memo they found remarkable coming from the Justice Department: an acknowledgement that a well-designed regulatory system could actually help achieve federal law enforcement goals.

“Indeed, a robust system may affirmatively address those priorities by, for example, implementing effective measures to prevent diversion of marijuana outside of the regulatory system and to other states, prohibiting access to marijuana by minors, and replacing an illicit marijuana trade that funds criminal enterprises with a tightly regulated market in which revenues are tracked and accounted for,” Cole wrote.

A Pew Research Center poll in March found that 60 percent of Americans think the federal government shouldn’t enforce federal marijuana laws in states where its use has been approved. Younger people, who tend to vote more Democratic, are especially prone to that view.

But opponents are worried these moves will lead to more use by young people. Colorado and Washington were states that helped re-elect Obama.

Kevin Sabet, the director of Project Smart Approaches to Marijuana, an anti-legalization group, predicted the new Justice Department policy will accelerate a national discussion about legalization because people will see its harms â€” including more drugged driving and higher high school dropout rates.

Kristi Kelly, a co-founder of three medical marijuana shops near Denver, said the Justice Department’s action is a step in the right direction.

“We’ve been operating in a gray area for a long time. We’re looking for some sort of concrete assurances that this industry is viable,” she said.

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Yost reported from Washington, D.C. Associated Press writers Alicia Caldwell in Washington, D.C., Rachel La Corte in Olympia, Wash., and Kristen Wyatt in Denver contributed to this report.

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Friday, August 2, 2013

NM exhibit shines light on rare Beatles photos

This Feb. 11, 1964 image provided by the David Anthony Fine Art gallery in Taos, N.M., shows a photograph of the Beatles taken by photographer Mike Mitchell during a news conference before the band’s first live U.S. concert at the Washington Coliseum. Mitchellâ€™s portraits of the Beatles are the centerpiece of a monthlong photography exhibition at the gallery. This marks the first time the images have been shown since their unveiling in 2011 at a Christieâ€™s auction in New York City. (AP Photo/David Anthony Fine Art, Mike Mitchell)

This Feb. 11, 1964 image provided by the David Anthony Fine Art gallery in Taos, N.M., shows a photograph of John Lennon taken by photographer Mike Mitchell during the Beatles first live U.S. concert at the Washington Coliseum. Mitchellâ€™s portraits of the Beatles are the centerpiece of a monthlong photography exhibition at the gallery. This marks the first time the images have been shown since their unveiling in 2011 at a Christieâ€™s auction in New York City. (AP Photo/David Anthony Fine Art, Mike Mitchell)

This Feb. 11, 1964 image provided by the David Anthony Fine Art gallery in Taos, N.M., shows a photograph of George Harrison taken by photographer Mike Mitchell during the Beatles first live U.S. concert at the Washington Coliseum. Mitchellâ€™s portraits of the Beatles are the centerpiece of a monthlong photography exhibition at the gallery. This marks the first time the images have been shown since their unveiling in 2011 at a Christieâ€™s auction in New York City. (AP Photo/David Anthony Fine Art, Mike Mitchell)

This Feb. 11, 1964 image provided by the David Anthony Fine Art gallery in Taos, N.M., shows a photograph of Ringo Starr taken by photographer Mike Mitchell during the Beatles first live U.S. concert at the Washington Coliseum. Mitchellâ€™s portraits of the Beatles are the centerpiece of a monthlong photography exhibition at the gallery. This marks the first time the images have been shown since their unveiling in 2011 at a Christieâ€™s auction in New York City. (AP Photo/David Anthony Fine Art, Mike Mitchell)

This Feb. 11, 1964 image provided by the David Anthony Fine Art gallery in Taos, N.M., shows a photograph of Ringo Starr taken by photographer Mike Mitchell at a news conference before the Beatles first live U.S. concert at the Washington Coliseum. Mitchellâ€™s portraits of the Beatles are the centerpiece of a monthlong photography exhibition at the gallery. This marks the first time the images have been shown since their unveiling in 2011 at a Christieâ€™s auction in New York City. (AP Photo/David Anthony Fine Art, Mike Mitchell)

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TAOS, N.M. (AP) â€” Snow and frigid temperatures didn’t stop thousands of screaming teenagers from crowding into the Washington Coliseum in the nation’s capital for the Beatles first live concert on American soil.

And not having a flash didn’t stop photographer Mike Mitchell, then just 18 years old, from using his unrestricted access to document that historic February night in 1964 using only the dim light in the arena.

Ghostly shadows and streams of light filled some negatives. With the help of modern technology and close to 1,000 hours in front of the computer screen, Mitchell was able to peel back decades of grunge and transform those old negatives into a rare, artful look at one of pop culture’s defining moments.

Mitchell’s portraits of the Beatles are the centerpiece of a monthlong exhibition at the David Anthony Fine Art gallery in Taos â€” the first time the prints have been exhibited since being unveiled in 2011 at a Christie’s auction in New York City. The gallery started hanging the first of the framed prints a week ago in preparation for Friday’s opening.

“Just amazing,” gallery owner David Mapes said as he looked around the room at the large black and white prints and wondered aloud what it must have been like to be in Mitchell’s shoes that night.

Mapes pointed to a photograph of the four band members, their backs to the camera with a thin ribbon of light outlining their silhouettes. When he first saw it, he said he teared up. He knew he had to find a way to share it with others.

“It brought back memories of that time. I was a teenager and it was so much about love and everything was optimistic feeling,” he said.

It didn’t take long from the time the Beatles released their debut album in 1963 to go from a little British bar band to an international sensation. The Beatles’ reach eventually stretched beyond music and haircuts to religion and politics.

“The Beatles came to represent some of the yearnings for peace and hope and equality and a larger social justice. In the United States and throughout the world, their personalities became as important as the music,” said Norman Markowitz, a history professor at Rutgers University.

For Paul Vance, who teaches a class on the Beatles at Winona State University in Minnesota, the band was the reason he pursued music. He was 11 years old when the Beatles first came to the U.S.

The Beatles had good timing, he said, having arrived at a time when America was still heartbroken over the assassination of then-President John F. Kennedy and young people were looking for meaning in their lives.

“Much has been said and written about it,” Vance said of the Beatles’ influence. “It’s a very significant point that the world after the Beatles was a radically different place than the world before the Beatles, and they did influence and change so many aspects of not just American life, but life everywhere.”

Mitchell can’t predict what role his photographs will play as historians and music fans continue to examine the evolution of American pop culture. Still, those moments captured by his camera that February night tell a grainy story of four young men who seemed to be having the time of their lives.

Mitchell remembers how hot it was inside the coliseum. The crowd was deafening but the resonating bass beats were unmistakable. He said the Beatles were “on fire” that night.

“They were really juiced. It was obvious at the time that they were really, really, really into it and I think the pictures really benefit from that,” he said.

Mitchell said his goal was simple. He wanted to make great portraits of the Beatles while discovering a little more about who they really were.

With no flash, he was forced to wait for the perfect time to snap that shutter. His photographs immortalized the important details of the moment in a bath of light while the rest faded into darkness. It was the concert that marked the beginning of his fascination with light.

“I think that was the first time in my life that I had to really look more deeply at light and take my queues from what the light was doing,” he said. “I learned to sort of feel from the light.”

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