Another Health Care Plan
President Obama intends to deliver up his own health care proposal on Monday, a couple of days prior to the health care summit he is hosting on Thursday, that will be televised. Details of the president’s proposal is going to be published on the internet at Whitehouse.gov at 10 a.m.
A few provisions have emerged, such as a proposal that will expand federal oversight of insurance companies to control excessive rate increases, The Times’s Robert Pear and David Herszenhorn noted. The proposals under study by the White House are intended to bridge some gaps between the previous House and Senate bills.
Republican reception to the proposals ahead of the summit have been mixed, although Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said in television interviews on Sunday that he and his Republican colleagues would go to the summit. House and Senate lawmakers return to Capitol Hill today after their prolonged President’s Day/snowstorm break.
A number of G.O.P. lawmakers have been in town late last week, appearing at the Conservative Political Action Conference, where their opposition to overhauling the nation’s health care system has been well-received by those attending. Although Democrats for many months have brushed Republicans as belonging to the “Party of No” – from rejecting the president’s stimulus bundle to health care, conference speakers tried to turn that negative into a positive by saying it’s O.K. to say no to what they see as large federal government programs.
Bloom Energy says, Brick-sized device could power a home.
Silicon Valley start-up Bloom Energy has unveiled the Bloom Box, a domestic fuel cell system that it claims will be very simple and inexpensive to operate. However it isn’t expected to be available for up to 10 years.
There’s a massive amount of boasting around the release. On 60 Minutes last night, founder KR Sridhar held up a brick-sized gadget that he claimed could power at least one house. He proposes that Bloom Boxes could at some point take the place of the electricity grid completely.
However with the official release not really until Wednesday, technical information tend to be slim.
The Bloom Box’s catalytic plates comprise of a stack of ceramic plates distributed with an unidentified ‘cheap metal alloy’ – other comparable cells call for costly metals such as platinum.
It could operate on any kind of fuel, states the company, from fossil fuels to biomass, which can be combined with oxygen to produce electrical power, with carbon dioxide and water as byproducts. There is no word on the efficiency of the thing – various other comparable fuel cells can manage up to 90 percent - of the operating costs.
Sridhar states that he created the idea after working on a device for NASA that would be able to produce oxygen for a Mars mission.
The company already has larger-scale versions – priced at around $700,000 – being used at eBay and Google datacenters, where it claims they have saved the companies hundreds of thousands of dollars in energy expenses.
It says the household models should cost as little as $3,000 and be on the market within five to ten years. However with dozens of other companies focusing on comparable technologies, it’s totally possible that Bloom could possibly be beaten to market.
Bloom Energy has taken eight years to get this far, and has obtained $400 million in venture capital.
How to Convert Airport Full Body Scan Into a Full Color Naked Picture
The full body scanners that President Obama authorized to be installed in airports across the country at a cost of over $1 billion dollars not only produce detailed pictures of your genitals, but once inverted some of those images also display your naked body in full living color.
And you don’t need to be a computer expert using any software suite like Photoshop will do the trick – inverting a photo is a simple process that takes one click and is an option available even in the most basic image editing software.
Wow, look at the detail of the inverted photo. You would recognized this girl if you met her on the street. This is actually a low resolution image. Airport screeners will have access to larger high definition images that, once inverted, will allow them to see every minute detail of your body.
Tiger Woods Voicemail Song “Take Your Name Off Your Phone”
Jaimee Grubbs, the woman who released her infamous Tiger Woods voicemail message to Us Weekly magazine. It was bound to .jpg "jaimee grubbs")
happen. Tiger Woods’ has already been made into ringtones, now it has been made into a song that is already a hit on YouTube. Scroll down for the video.
It’s called “Tiger Woods Voicemail Slow Jam Remix” and was produced by HalfDayToday.com