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- Solar Powered Airplane Successfully Completes First Night Flight
- Georgian Women Turns 130!?!
- Two Gored at Running of the Bulls
- 'Driver Defeat' Laser Dazzlers
- Justice Kennedy Says he is Staying on The Court Until After Obama's First Term Ends
- Obama Recess Appoints Donald Berwick as ObamaCare Czar
- Vuvuzela Will Blend
- Solar-Powered Airplane Makes First Night Flight
- Octavia Nasr Fired For Tweet About Hizbullah Spiritual Mentor's Death
| Solar Powered Airplane Successfully Completes First Night Flight Posted: 08 Jul 2010 01:16 PM PDT A follow up to the Solar-Powered Airplane Makes First Night Flight story. The flight was a success. What that means is that theoretically we have plane that can fly indefinitely. In practice however, any human complement would need supplies that the plane may need to land for. Even if you could transfer the supplies mid air, it would still need to land for general maintenance. It seems a bad idea to be a few miles high while doing some work on the wings. http://www.universetoday.com/2010/07/08/solar-powered-airplane-successfully-flies-through-the-night "After flying for over 26 straight hours, pilot André Borschberg landed the solar-powered Solar Impulse HB-SIA airplane to cheers and applause at the Payerne airbase in Switzerland, successfully completing the goal of flying the aircraft through the night. According to Bertrand Piccard, president of Solar Impulse, there was power to spare, with over three hours of energy remaining in the sun-gathering lithium batteries. "This is a highly symbolic moment: flying by night using solely solar power is a stunning manifestation of the potential that clean technologies offer today to reduce the dependency of our society on fossil fuels!" Piccard said. "We are on the verge of the perpetual flight." With an official flight time of 26 hours and 9 minutes, the lightweight carbon fiber plane reached a a maximum altitude of 8,700 m (28,543 ft), a top speed of 68 knots (ground speed), an average speed of 23 knots. The HB-SIA flew solely on solar power, gathering and storing it during the daylight hours, and using the energy to fly through the night." 
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| Posted: 08 Jul 2010 01:09 PM PDT Her claim is unverified, but if proven correct it would make Antisa Khvichava the longest living human ever confirmed, and by a healthy margin. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100708/ap_on_re_eu/eu_georgia_oldest_person "Authorities in the former Soviet republic of Georgia claim a woman from a remote mountain village turned 130 on Thursday, making her the oldest person on Earth. Antisa Khvichava from western Georgia was born on July 8, 1880, said Georgiy Meurnishvili, spokesman for the civil registry at the Justice Ministry. The woman, who lives with her 40-year-old grandson in an idyllic vine-covered country house in the mountains, retired from her job as a tea and corn picker in 1965, when she was 85, records say. "I've always been healthy, and I've worked all my life — at home and at the farm," said Khvichava, in a bright dress and headscarf, her withering lips rejuvenated by shiny red lipstick. Sitting in the chair and holding her cane, Khvichava spoke quietly through an interpreter since she never went to school to learn Georgian and speaks only the local language, Mingrelian. Her age couldn't immediately be independently verified. Her birth certificate was lost — one of the great number to have disappeared in the past century amid revolutions and a civil war which followed the collapse of the Russian Empire. But Meurnishvili showed two Soviet-era documents that he says attest to her age. Scores of officials, neighbors, friends, and descendants backed up her claim as the world's top senior." 
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| Two Gored at Running of the Bulls Posted: 08 Jul 2010 01:02 PM PDT They say 'when you mess with the Bull you get the horns'. A few people found this out the hard way are the Running of the Bulls this year, as is often the case. Fortunately there were no reports of fatalities as there were last year. Video embedded below. 
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| 'Driver Defeat' Laser Dazzlers Posted: 08 Jul 2010 12:46 PM PDT Video embedded below. 
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| Justice Kennedy Says he is Staying on The Court Until After Obama's First Term Ends Posted: 07 Jul 2010 08:44 PM PDT Supreme Court Justice Kennedy told friends and relatives he plans on sticking around for at least another couple of years, through Obama's current term. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2010/07/06/2010-07-06_holdin_court_at_73_justice_kennedy_tells_pals_hes_not_retiring_for_years__thats_.html "President Obama may get liberal Elena Kagan on the Supreme Court, but conservative swing-voter Anthony Kennedy says he's not going anywhere anytime soon. Justice Kennedy, who turns 74 this month, has told relatives and friends he plans to stay on the high court for at least three more years - through the end of Obama's first term, sources said. That means Kennedy will be around to provide a fifth vote for the court's conservative bloc through the 2012 presidential election. If Obama loses, Kennedy could retire and expect a Republican President to choose a conservative justice." 
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| Obama Recess Appoints Donald Berwick as ObamaCare Czar Posted: 07 Jul 2010 08:38 PM PDT Republicans were quick to point out that Berwick is a rationing expert; something opponents of the law said it would force. It is hard for them to decry the act of recess appointment since it is something both parties use. What is interesting about this one is that Obama did not use it to get Berwick past a Republican block, but to avoid debate on health care. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100707/ap_on_bi_ge/us_obama_health_care_appointment "President Barack Obama bypassed the Senate Wednesday and appointed Dr. Donald Berwick, a Harvard professor and patient care specialist, to run Medicare and Medicaid. The decision to use a so-called recess appointment to install Berwick as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services drew immediate fire from the GOP. Republicans have raised concerns about Berwick's views on rationing of care and other matters and said it was wrong for Obama to go around the normal Senate confirmation process. That view was echoed by a key Democratic committee chairman, although the recess appointment is a tool used by presidents of both parties. Berwick has wide support in the medical community but some Democrats feared the GOP would use his confirmation hearings as an opportunity to reopen last year's divisive health care debate. Obama defended the decision to appoint Berwick and two other officials, one to a pension board and the other to a White House science post." 
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| Posted: 07 Jul 2010 08:05 PM PDT |
| Solar-Powered Airplane Makes First Night Flight Posted: 08 Jul 2010 01:17 PM PDT |
| Octavia Nasr Fired For Tweet About Hizbullah Spiritual Mentor's Death Posted: 07 Jul 2010 08:15 PM PDT Former CNN editor Octavia Nasr was fired over her tweet about how she sad over the death of Ayatollah Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah. http://weeklystandard.com/blogs/cnn-editor-fired-saying-she-has-respect-hezbollah-cleric "Mediaite reports that CNN has fired senior editor of Middle East affairs Octavia Nasr. As Daniel Halper pointed out the other day, Nasr wrote on Twitter on July 4 that she was "sad" to hear of the death of Hezbollah's Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah--a man for whom she has "respect." Fadlallah had justified suicide bombings, is believed to be responsible for the Marine barracks bombing, and had said that "Zionism has inflated the number of victims in this Holocaust beyond imagination." ... She explained that she knew about all the wicked aspects of Fadlallah's life--saying she even "lost family members" in the barracks bombing--and was simply referring to the fact that she respected Fadlallah for his opposition to "honor" killings and beating women. But saying you respect Fadlallah for opposing murdering and beating (Muslim) women is almost like saying you respect Osama bin Laden for building day care centers. CNN doesn't think Nasr's apology makes up for what she said. "We believe that her credibility in her position as senior editor for Middle Eastern affairs has been compromised going forward," Nasr's CNN superior Parisa Khosravi said in a statement." 
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