—–A Power Station in Your Basement

The centerpiece of the new mini power plant system is a natural gas powered engine used in some Volkswagen Golf models. Thanks to the engine’s highly intelligent design—and the fact that the heat it produces can be directly used to heat the house—the efficiency factor of the Volkswagen mini thermal power plant lies at around 94 percent.

“…The results show a clear link between neuregulin 1 and creativity: Volunteers with the specific variant of this gene were more likely to have higher scores on the creativity assessment and also greater lifetime creative achievements than volunteers with a different form of the gene…this is the first study to show that a genetic variant associated with psychosis may have some beneficial functions…“molecular factors that are loosely associated with severe mental disorders but are present in many healthy people may have an advantage enabling us to think more creatively.”…these findings suggest that certain genetic variations, even though associated with adverse health problems, may survive evolutionary selection and remain in a population’s gene pool if they also have beneficial effects.” Full Slice

…for spaceweather.com, you can always just get ahold of the recent pictures from SOHO yourself.

…or get a summary of what measurements people took and what theoretical work they are using to try to understand climate change.

http://www.ipcc.ch/

You don’t have to agree with people’s interpretations, but if you dispute their measurements, you’d better have something better than conspiracy theory.

At least a start:

I recommend that Children’s Hospital relocate from their Laurelwood facility to a brand new facility in Federal Way.  Specifically, relocate next to the Federal Way Transit Center where the old AMC theater was prior to being torn down.  That property is owned by the city and was originally intended to house Highline Community College.  That project is on indefinite hold.

The City of Federal Way (FDub) owns the the property.  It is zoned for 18 story buildings.  The ground is level and clear and impacts no riparian areas.  The property has views of the Cascades, Mt. Rainier, Puget Sound, and the Olympics (at 5 stories plus, Rainier from everywhere.).  Two transit centers, I-5, and open area for helicopter landings are close by.  Light rail is coming.  There are several closeby areas that would server as a helicopter landing pad when bringing in emergency pediatric cases.

I recommend:

• The City of Federal Way advocate for the relocation of Children’s Hospital to downtown FDub
• The City give the property known as Center Plaza to Children’s Hospital in exchange for relocating for 10 years.
• The City.rezone Center Plaza to allow any configuration Children’s Hospital desires, including maximum building height.
• The City work with Children’s to acquire other nearby property as necessary.

“A study that tracked genetic mutations through the human equivalent of about 5,000 years has demonstrated for the first time that oxidative DNA damage is a primary cause of the process of mutation - the fuel for evolution but also a leading cause of aging, cancer and other diseases.

The research…also indicated that natural selection is affecting the parts of the genome that don’t contain genes – supposedly “junk” DNA that increasingly appears to have important roles in life processes that are very poorly understood….” Full Slice

Vondelpark Congregation of the Servants of the GFO.

Just a picture of some servants of the GFO, Vondelpark Parish, Amsterdam, Nederlands.

XXX!  (Compassion, Resolution and Heroism)