Interesting new company: Using NASA-based technology to generate GREEN energy...perhaps the future of power generation in the world...This company was featured in 60 minutes. Some big companies are already testing the technology, including the likes of Google, Ebay, etc...

The company's website:

http://www.bloomenergy.com/

60 Minutes story:

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6228923n&tag=contentMain;contentBody

Watch the full episode. See more NOVA.

Testing Roll Call Applications

Admin:
http://testcoldfusion.legis.state.pa.us/CFDOCS/legis/RC/index.cfm

1. Content shifted to left: http://testcoldfusion.legis.state.pa.us/CFDOCS/legis/RC/index.cfm

2. Content shifted to left: http://testcoldfusion.legis.state.pa.us/CFDOCS/legis/RC/rc_tool.cfm

3. Content shifted to left: http://testcoldfusion.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/RC/rc_extract.cfm

Raw Data Extract:
http://testcoldfusion.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/RC/rc_extract.cfm

4. Error:

http://testcoldfusion.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/RC/rc_extract_action.cfm

But this may be strictly a data range issue, rather than a problem introduced by the new environment!!!

Data Imports:
http://testcoldfusion.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/RC/DataImports/index.cfm3

5. link to documentation slightly shifted outside of box while processing a file...

PUBLIC SITES:
http://testcoldfusion.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/RC/Public/rc_view_date.cfm?rc_body=H

http://testcoldfusion.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/RC/Public/rc_view_date.cfm?rc_body=S

Chekc with Shane on these last two since he might have noticed something subtle. Also, make

sure to read his comments in the MKS: 15800

Wikipedia entry for Daniel Schorr:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Schorr

Memorial Special from NPR:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128565997&sc=nl&cc=es-20100725

Chuy is 37 today, Congratulations??? Happy Birthday Chuy!

Today was a bad day. Please don't take our picture!

REM - Bad Day

Just when you think you got life figured out, it turns around and changes the rules on you. Life is short. Enjoy it while you can.

Today I completed day 50! Good deal!

Today is day #37 of my Incremental Push-ups Program. Since the beginning of this year, my resolution was, as it is for billions of people across the world, to get in better shape. To that end, I decided to implement my incremental push-up program.

Here's how it works: On day one, I did 10; on the second day, 11 push-ups and son on. I give myself all day to complete my commitment of push-ups. As long as i get them done, I don't care how or when. In fact, there's been a couple of days when I made up push-ups from the previous day. No big deal. So far, I have not missed a single push-up, and I'm proud to say that today, my commitment is 37.

It might not seem like much, but those push up sare starting to add up. But since it is a very gradual program, your body has enough time to adjust. I

Victor Sanchez and I approve of this message!

According ot the machine, I burned 1000 calories today.

A very efficient hunger-awareness program!!!

The full details of how the program escape me now, but I'll try to describe it as best I remember...

When I was in college (Allegheny College in Meadville, PA) they once had a very interesting hunger-awareness program that was very effective. Via e-mail message, students were invited to participate in a special 'alternate lunch program' for one day. If you wanted to participate, you would give up your dinner meal for a ticket. This special ticket had a number on it and could be taken to the hunger-awareness dinner event. At the event, peole were divided into 3 social classes (Rich, Middle Class, Poor) using a type of random lottery system. Here's how the class-assignment worked:

The event was a simple dinner where the 3 social classes dinned together, but the disbribution of food was similar to that in real life. The few rich sat on fancy, well decorated tables where the food was abundant and fresh. The rich were waited on and treated with respect. Their every need was taken care of by waiters.

Members of the Middle Class were allowed to sit on tables and chairs, but they were a bit older and not well decorated. Their food seemed less fresh and less abundant, and were not waited on by anyone. They essentially had to serve themselves.

Finally, members of the Poor class were instructed to sit on the floor. The food they were allowed to have was of poor quality and much less of it despite the fact that they were the largest group. Before they could begin to eat, they had to wait for the other two groups to finish. The poor were not allowed to initiate conversation with the rich and could only speak to them if spoken to.

The program, for me, was particularly powerful because it clearly illustrated the differences and unfairness in the world. The random assignment into the different social classes was important to illustrate that as individuals, were don't get to choose which life we are born into. Having all 3 classes dine side-by-side also made the differences between rich and poor more evident and impossible to avoid. We might not see it as much in real life because we don't all dine together, but when you are next to each other, it is especially powerful. Of those who participated, some belonged to a higher social class in real life than they ended up in during the event, and this was especially eye-opening for them as they were treated, perhaps for the first time, like everyone else without any special treatment.