Synthetic trees could purify air?

A scientist has invented an artificial tree designed to do the job of plants.
But the synthetic tree proposed by Dr Klaus Lackner does not much resemble the leafy variety.

“It looks like a goal post with Venetian blinds,” said the Columbia University physicist, referring to his sketch at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Denver, Colorado.

But the synthetic tree would do the job of a real tree, he said. It would draw carbon dioxide out of the air, as plants do during photosynthesis, but retain the carbon and not release oxygen.

See link – http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2784227.stm

Question – What are your thoughts ?

Please help me figure out who this singer is!!!?

We had decided to take a cross country road trip to California last summer. June 12th 2009. We get to Kansas, and there is a horrible storm blowing up. The sky is green, we pull under a bridge and we can’t see a thing. Wind is just whipping rain and hail and rain and debree everywhere. When it finally lets up a little bit, we pull up to the next gas station in Bowman. We go inside to use the bathroom and ask if the storm was completely blown over as everyone was watching the news. The gas station employee told us that it looked that way. So we go out and get back in the car, and try to take a short nap. It had been a long day, we’d been driving all night. After not being able to sleep very well, I decided I needed to pee again. So I go back inside and notice that the power is out. With out thinking I keep on heading to the bathroom. It doesn’t occur to me until I get to the bathroom door that I won’t be able to see. The lights are out. Luckily there is this woman in front of me, and she has a tiny flash light. She said that she had just sent her husband out to get it. She was laughing as I asked if I could borrow her flashlight to make sure nothing was growing or wet on my seat. So as we are sitting there, doing our business, we start talking in the dark, thru the stall wall. She said that she is from arkansas and her husband is a research meteorologist, and he was pretty sure a tornado had just passed. I told her about our trip and asked where she was headed. She said she was headed to Denver Colorado to shoot a music video. As we were washing our hands, I laughed and told her that she could be somebody famous for all knew, as I couldn’t see a thing in there. I asked if she was a singer. She said really slow as if it was a stupid question….”Yes…” So we open the bathroom door and get back out where we can see a little and she shines the light up at her face and smiles as if I am suppose to know who she is. I was embarrassed, and didn’t want to hurt her feelings or look stupid. So I said, “OH yea, COOL!”
…I to this day have no idea who that woman is. I told my family about it as we pulled out of the parking lot, and was told to never tell this story again. My husband compared it to a joke with out a punch line.

WHO IS IT!!!!???? She had shoulder length blonde/brown hair. In her 40′s or 50′s. I am assuming that she sings country. Shorter than my 5’5″. I had someone say Patty loveless, but I can’t find anything on her husband to verify. IT’S DRIVING ME NUTTS!
Nope. Not her, just looked up her info. And her husband is an actual research meteorologist. Thank you tho. Never heard of that lady.

What would Mr. Heston say about all of this?

The following is an excerpt from a speech made by Charlton Heston, of the NRA, at an NRA convention in Denver, Colorado, on May 1, 1999. This was about 2 weeks after the massacre at Columbine high school.

I see our country teetering on the edge of an abyss. At its bottom brews the simmering bile of deep, dark hatred. Hatred that’s dividing our country politically, racially, economically, geographically, in every way.

Whether it’s political vendettas, sports brawls, corporate takeovers, or high school gangs and cliques, the American competetive ethic has changed from “let’s beat the other guy” to “let’s destroy the other guy.” Too many are too willing to stigmatize and demonize others for political advantage, money or ratings.

The villification is savage. This week, Rep. John Conyers slandered 3 million Americans when he called the NRA “merchants of death” on national television, as the First Lady nodded in agreement. A hideous editorial cartoon by Mike Peters ran nationally, depicting children’s dead bodies sprawled out to spell N-R-A. The countless requests we’ve received for media appearances are in fact summons to public floggings, where those who hate firearms will predictably don the white hat and hand us the black.

This harvest of hatred is then sold as news, as entertainment, as government policy. Such hateful, divisive forces are leading us to one awful end: America’s own form of Balkanization. A weakened country of rabid factions, each less free, and united only by hatred of one another.

In the past ten days, we’ve seen these brutal blows attempting to fracture America into two such camps. One camp would be the majority – people who believe our Founders guarenteed our security with the right to defend ourselves, our families and our country. The other camp would be a large minority – people who believe that we will buy security if we will just surrender these freedoms.

This debate would be accurately described as those who believe in the Second Amendment, versus those who don’t. But instead it is spun as those who believe in murder, versus those who don’t. A struggle between the reckless and the prudent, between the dim-witted and the enlightened, between the archaic and the progressive, between the inferior citizens and elitists who know what’s good for society.

But we’re not the rustic, reckless radicals they wish for. No, the NRA spans the broadest range of American demography imaginable. We defy stereotype, except for love of country. Look in your mirror, your shopping mall, your church or grocery store. That’s us. Millions of ordinary people and extraordinarypeople – war heroes, sports idols, several U.S. presidents and yes, movie stars.

But the screeching hyperbole leveled at gun owners has made these two camps so wary of each other, so hostile and confrontational and disrespectful, that too many on both sides have forgotten that we are, first, Americans.

So, when we take our 1st Amendment, and replace it with the 2nd Amendment while discussing a virtually identical issue to the Mosque in Manhattan…what is the result?

The full content of the speech can be found here:
http://www.thelandofthefree.net/historicdocs/charltonhestonnra1999.html

Why does Michelle Obama want to convince the WORLD that Barack should be President?

DENVER, Colorado (AFP) – Michelle Obama takes center stage at the Democratic convention Monday to proudly proclaim to the world why she believes her husband should be elected president of the United States.

From here she will seek to convince Americans and the world that her husband is the man who should lead the United States for the next four years.

“Nobody in the world knows Barack Obama better than his wife Michelle,” said Obama spokesman Josh Earnest.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080825/ts_alt_afp/usvotewife_080825204229

Why do you think anti-White crimes receive minor publication?

I just barely learned about the story of Brandy Duvall from Denver Colorado. A very tragic story about a 14 year old girl who was abducted by a gang of Bloods, that consisted of Hispanics and Blacks. They horrendously tortured and murdered the poor teen, then dumped her like trash. The story brought tears to my eyes literally. My point is; this happened in ’97 and I’m just barely learning about it now?? And I don’t remember any serious news coverage on it back during that time. You would think that with the heinousness of the crime, it’d be greatly condemned and nationally discussed, but instead, it’s been the complete opposite; swept under the rug. Forgotten. I think that is tremendously sad and ultra disrespectful. I am Hispanic, by the way. Any sexual act committed against a child or woman is WRONG. Regardless of race.*

Bussiness related question?

Determine which level of measurement— nominal, ordinal, interval, or ratio—is used in the following examples.

•The Association of Accountants is conducting a survey to determine the ranking of the top 100 accounting firms in the world.

•How many years did it take you to earn your college degree?

•On a questionnaire which asks for gender, males are coded as 1 and females are coded as 2.

•Respondents are asked to rate a list of high-tech companies as excellent, good, fair, or poor in terms of their service delivery.

•Cereal brands are arranged in an ordered sequence in which an equal interval exists between each point.

•LeBron James wears the number 23 on his jersey.

•The length of time it takes the winner of a marathon to cross the finish line.

•Students are asked to rank computer manufacturers.

•The brand of charge card used by a customer.

•The pin number used to access your checking account.

Which sampling method—simple random, systematic, stratified, cluster, convenience, judgment, quota, or snowball—is most appropriate for the following examples?

•The unemployment rate is calculated each month by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The survey consists of 50,000 households in about 2,000 counties and cities in all 50 states.

•A researcher for Kraft Foods selects five states randomly, and then selects 10 supermarkets chains within each state to call for a phone survey as test markets for a new cookie.

•A new product researcher would like to investigate the use of virtual teams. After conducting an interview with a manager, she asks for the names of other managers that use virtual teams.

•A news reporter asks people on the street their opinion about the president’s new bill.

•Jamie select Denver, Colorado; Chicago, Illinois; and San Diego, California as test markets for a new potato chip line base on her experience with these markets.

•A researcher instructs field interviewers to interview customers of different cell phone companies in a nearby shopping mall so that they each interview 10 AT&T, 8 T Mobile, 6 Verizon, and 4 owners of other cell phone providers.

•The Consumer Price Index represents a sampling of 90,000 items from 364 categories, chosen from 20,000 retail stores in 85 geographically distributed areas that are chosen to be as similar as possible.

•A finance professor wants to know how many MBA students would be willing to take a course in international finance this summer. She surveys students in the class she is currently teaching.

Which hypothesis-testing procedure would you use in the following situations?

•The mean time an American family lives in a particular single-family dwelling is 11.8 years. A sample of 100 families in the Sycamore, OK area shows the mean time living in a single family residence is 12.7 years. Can we conclude that the time people live in Sycamore is significantly more than the national average?

•A researcher would like to know if there is a significant difference in clothing purchases between full-time working women, part-time working women, and women who are homemakers.

•Eighty percent of those who play the state lottery never win more than $100 in one play. A sample of 500 players was drawn and the mean winning was $125.

•A drug manufacturing company conducted a survey of customers. The research question was as follows: Is there a significant relationship between packaging preference (size of the bottle purchased) and economic status? There were four packaging sizes: small, medium, large, and jumbo. Economic status was categorized as follows: lower, middle, and upper.

•A company has 24 salespeople. The test must evaluate whether their product knowledge has improved or remained unchanged after a training program.

•A computer company has a brand loyalty rating of 6.8 on a 7 point scale. Is this company’s rating significantly different from the industry average of 6.4?

•The manager of an office supply store wanted to determine which color folders she should discontinue based on low sales. The colors stocked were black, blue, red, green, and purple.

Why is CNN saluting the Tea Party?

Is it because they realize Americans want unbiased news or that their ratings have fallen below the Cartoon Network’s?

“Last week, I saw all of this during a five-city Western swing as the Tea Party Express national tour made its way across the country. CNN was along for the ride, and I was charged with planning CNN’s coverage for five stops in two states: St. George, Provo and Salt Lake City, Utah; and Grand Junction and Denver, Colorado.”

http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/04/07/tea.party.rallies/?hpt=Sbin

What do you think Immigration Arrests 78 Convicted Illegal Aliens In Colo., Wyo.?

DENVER — In the largest immigration operation in Colorado this year, 78 convicted criminal aliens, immigration fugitives and immigration violators were arrested during a three-day targeted enforcement operation by agents from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Office of Enforcement and Removal Operations.

During the operation, which ended Sept. 23, ICE officers located and arrested 64 aliens with prior criminal convictions, including five gang members.

Some of the criminal aliens taken into custody had prior convictions for serious or violent crimes, such as homicide, selling illegal drugs, sexual crimes against children, resisting arrest and assault, vehicle theft and drunken-driving convictions, according to ICE.

In addition, 12 of the individuals ICE officers took into custody were immigration fugitives, aliens with outstanding orders of deportation who had failed to leave the country, the agency said.

Nine of those arrested will be presented to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for prosecution for illegally re-entering the United States after they had been previously deported, which is a felony punishable by up to 20 years in prison, according to ICE.

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/25198399/detail.html

guys can you please help me summarise this article with words i know so i can understand it better?

Poverty level rising in Colo.
By ASSOCIATED PRESS – August 28, 2007
Colorado’s poverty rate is below the national average and its median income is higher, but the percentage of people without health insurance tops the U.S. average, according to new estimates from the Census Bureau.

Tough limits on who can receive insurance from the state and fewer employers who sponsor health coverage may explain why 16.6 percent of the population is uninsured, said Colorado Fiscal Policy Institute analyst Adela Flores-Brennan.

Nationwide, an estimated 15.8 percent of Americans didn’t have health insurance last year.

“Colorado has a really lean Medicaid program, so some people who might not be able get insurance on the private market also can’t qualify for public assistance,” Flores-Brennan said.

A panel working on ways to expand health care in Colorado estimates 791,000 residents are uninsured.

The Census Bureau’s American Community Survey estimates the Colorado poverty rate at 12 percent in 2006, compared with 9.3 percent in the 2000 Census. The Census Bureau reported the national poverty rate at 12.3 percent in 2006, based on the Current Population Survey.

Poverty level

A family of two adults and two children would be considered at the poverty level if their household income was $20,444 or less in 2006.

However, families in the Denver area might need twice that amount just to live without any public or private assistance, Flores-Brennan said. The Colorado Fiscal Policy Institute has recommended restoring earned income tax credits and opening up eligibility for the Colorado State Children’s Health Insurance Program, among other ideas, to help struggling working families.

Meanwhile, wages are going up, but not all Colorado workers are seeing the same increases.

Gary Horvath of the University of Colorado Leeds School of Business said wages in the Denver metro area grew much faster the past two years than elsewhere in Colorado.

“If lower wages are going up at a lower rate, versus higher wages going up at higher rate, there’s going to be a disparity there,” Horvath said.

“We’ve always got to be very careful in how we go forward in that we look at bringing the whole population along, so there’s not a larger spread between those with and without,” state demographer Elizabeth Garner said.

“Although we look good, you still have to be very careful you’re looking for opportunities for your entire population,” she said.

Census estimates show Douglas County had one of the highest median incomes ($92,125) and lowest poverty rates (1.9 percent) in the nation for counties with at least 250,000 people.

Median income for Colorado was $52,015 last year, below the estimated median income of $57,118 in 1999, before the recession.

The Census Bureau said the national median income was $48,200.

Denver Daily News