Archive for August, 2010

How MIT’s Hybrid Bike Wheel Came to Life

August 31, 2010
By CMAC
How MIT’s Hybrid Bike Wheel Came to Life

An interview with Christine Outram, who shepherded the Copenhagen Wheel’s development. Can a student design change the world? Absolutely, and the Copenhagen Wheel — a hybrid-electric wheel you can bolt onto almost any bike — might soon prove how fast that can happen. Developed by a student team out of MIT’s SENSEable City lab,...
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Photos of the Mayor’s lifeless body, Edelmiro Leal Cavazos

August 31, 2010
By CMAC
Photos of the Mayor’s lifeless body, Edelmiro Leal Cavazos

Edelmiro Leal Cavazos, was deprived of his liberty by gunmen who came to their home address apocryphal uniform federal agents, two days later found the corpse in the six kilometer road Cola de Caballo in the state. The murder of the mayor of Santiago, Edelmiro Santiago Mayor Leal Cavazos Nuevo Leon, was a revenge...
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Dan low to 3000 200 federal police

August 31, 2010
By CMAC

Facundo Rosas commissioner general of the Federal Police, announced today that the dismissal is because the items did not meet the testing requirements and Reliability Control. The federal Public Security Ministry announced today that he resigned in 3000 200 members of the corporation because it did not meet requirements as examinations Control Trust and...
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Presentation of Edgar Valdez Villareal, alias “Barbie” (3 videos)

August 31, 2010
By CMAC
Presentation of Edgar Valdez Villareal, alias “Barbie” (3 videos)

(video 1) Tuesday August 31, 2010, Mexico City .- Press Conference of the Secretariat of Public Security, which is presentedEdgar Valdez Villareal, alias “Barbie”, was arrested Monday afternoon in the State of Mexicoalong with six alleged accomplices, four men and two women. (video 2)  At the conference, Facundo Rosas, CommissionerGeneralFederal Police reported that the...
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The New Moral Equivalence

August 31, 2010
By CMAC

Dennis Prager There was one thing more than any other that turned this New York, liberal, Jewish, Columbia University graduate student away from modern liberalism: its use of moral equivalence to avoid confronting evil during the Cold War. There was a time when liberalism was identified with anti-Communism. But the Vietnam War led liberals...
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Two men arrested in Amsterdam on suspicion of carrying out ‘dry-run’ for hijacking

August 31, 2010
By CMAC

Rick Moran ABC News broke the story of two Yemeni nationalists who were in the US legally and were cleared through Chicago and Birmingham despite security questions about their luggage, being arrested for what authorities suspect was a dry run for a terrorist attack: U.S. officials said the two appeared to be travelling with...
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Islam, Islamophobia, Christophobia, and Jew hatred

August 31, 2010
By CMAC

Eugene Veklerov Here is a reality check to keep in mind when someone issues another condemnation of Islamophobia in the Western World.  Surely, we have plenty of room for improvement, but we are pikers at the game of religious discrimination. In many Muslim countries, discrimination against Christians and Jews is not just practiced, it...
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Pres. Obama to mark end of Combat operations in Iraq

August 31, 2010
By CMAC

President Obama will mark the end of the American combat operations in Iraq tonight in his second formal address from the Oval Office. Tomorrow, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas arrive at the White House to resume direct negotiations on a peace agreement between the two sides. House Minority...
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Eight killed as bar is ‘petrol-bombed’ in Cancun

August 31, 2010
By CMAC
Eight killed as bar is ‘petrol-bombed’ in Cancun

Six women and two men have been killed in an attack on a bar in the Mexican resort city of Cancun, officials say. Witnesses told police that six armed men had thrown petrol bombs into the building early on Tuesday, setting it ablaze, Quintana Roo state attorney-general Francisco Alor said. Investigators were examining the...
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‘Israel will exact a price from the murderers’

August 31, 2010
By CMAC

Four killed as terrorists open fire near Kiryat Arba; victims, from Beit Hagai, shot while driving, include 2 men, 2 women, one reportedly pregnant; attack comes before scheduled peace talks in Washington.
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