BRITISH & EXOTIC MINERALOGY
All 2,242 illustrations from James Sowerby’s compendium of knowledge about mineralogy in Great Britain and beyond, drawn 1802–1817 and arranged by color.
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This site is a reproduction of the brochure for the Typesetter Model B from the American Type Founders. The original brochure, published in 1963, showcases the benefits of using the Typesetter Model B with beautiful images of typesetting equipment and a vibrant colorful design.
Last month, RedState reported on the spate of dead whales washing up on beaches in New York and New Jersey. The pace has not slowed, and there now have been 25 reported deaths of the huge animals just since the beginning of December 2022. //
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23 Whales dead with only 2 wind turbines in place.
Plans for THOUSANDS of wind turbines may wipe out whales forever.
11:39 AM · Mar 3, 2023 //
Many blame the construction of massive offshore wind turbines, but the federal government insists there’s no connection, with the Marine Mammal Commission, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), and the National Ocean Atmospheric Association (NOAA) rejecting the claims. //
The main takeaway from the dead whales on the East Coast, the heinous conditions in the Congo cobalt mines, and the traumatized reindeer in Norway? Green energy is not so easy.
All of these attacks serve two purposes.
Firstly, it demoralizes Christians. For those not paying attention, the narrative might stick and the disappointment of watching a well-known Christian prove to be a hypocrite can shake the community. This could lead to feelings of isolation or even a loss of faith. It also teaches Christians that they should stay quiet lest they become targets of the mainstream-driven mob as well.
Secondly, it reinforces the idea to the rest of the populace that anyone outside the mainstream, especially their most notable members, are all raging hypocrites and that staying with the sane mainstream figures and believing what they believe is the right move.
This is how they paint the sane and logical as the fringe and make the fringe look sane and logical.
It’s how they move the Overton window, normalize insanity, and ultimately turn society into a hellscape. It might be a long, slow process but it’s one that they’ve been at for a very, very long time, and it’s definitely had its effect. It’s imperative that these lies get called out, but just as importantly, it’s important that these strategies are understood and well-known.
The fight for the culture has to include knowledge of the enemy’s playbook. Knowing your enemy is the first step in any battle. //
Cafeblue32 The Real John from Jersey
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And your are Peter, and upon this rock I will build My Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. -Jesus.
Notice where the gates are. They ain't on the church. The church is supposed to be kicking in the gates of hell not the other way around.
mopani Cafeblue32
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I've never seen gates get up and march into battle.
The question is, what is the battle over?
I agree with all of the above, but i think we Christians need to remember that this is first of all a spiritual battle, and if we only fight this on the political level we will become what we are fighting against, or worse.
Pray for your enemies. //
Free American
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Prayer and exposure are the counter attack strategy. Often though one has to fight fire with fire. Alinsky's tactics work both ways. //
nebraskared
2 hours ago
This article did an excellent job of not falling into the trap of fighting fire with fire. While preventative burns and backfires work when done right I have never seen fire put out a fire in a house. Going head to head with leftists by using Alinsky tactics is unwinnable for conservatives because the tactics (Alinsky's rules for radicals) run contrary to many of the common political principles of conservatives. Back in the 70's I was part of a conservative organization that chose to use the "successful" tactics of "community organizing" put forth by Alinsky and in a few months the organization was reduced to a remnant of bitter, angry, and obnoxious people. Aggressive and explicit exposure of the tactics behind leftist words and actions will eventually cause them to eat there own, until of course they pop up again.
Last Friday, a Marine celebrated his 100th birthday. On December 7, 1941, he was sitting in the “great room” of his fraternity when news of Pearl Harbor arrived in the form of a shout. A fraternity brother was listening to the radio and loudly announced that the Japanese had bombed Pearl. America was at war, and so were each of the “brothers” in the house. Some joined right away. Others waited.
This Marine finished his freshman year and then enlisted. Why the Marines? “Because the Marines are first in the fight,” he said. //
He knows that he was one of the lucky Marines to come home. The heroes, he said, never came home.
Texas state Representative Bryan Slaton introduced a bill in the Texas state legislature that would cut the property tax bill of all married couples, especially those with children. //
I’m 100% in favor of the bill because I am biased toward large, two-parent families. And, like Ronald Reagan, I believe, “If you want more of something, subsidize it; if you want less of something, tax it.” I think we’ve gone out of our way to make family formation difficult for too long. In fact, the “means testing” of benefits seems calculated to produce single mothers with multiple children. As a society, we penalize families who prefer to have one parent at home and make subsidized child care available. Children who are homeschooled are, in most school districts, unable to participate in sports, extramural activities or even to use educational programs in the public library available to public school students. The federal tax code bakes in a “marriage penalty” that makes it more advantageous for a couple to live together than get married.
The US population is below the rate needed to sustain it without significant immigration. So in my mind, we should all get behind anything that encourages Americans to get married, stay married, and have kids. //
(c) A qualifying married couple with four or more qualifying children may substitute the following, as applicable, for 10 percent when computing the amount of credit to which the couple is entitled under Subsection (b):
(1) 40 percent, if the qualifying married couple have four qualifying children; //
(6) 90 percent, if the qualifying married couple have nine qualifying children; or
(7) 100 percent, if the qualifying married couple have 10 or more qualifying children. //
(2) “Qualifying married couple” means a man and a woman who are legally married to each other, neither of whom have ever been divorced. //
It seems to me that as long as we’re using tax codes to reward and punish behavior, limiting a property tax abatement to couples engaging in heterosexual behavior is justified; see the Reagan quote. //
Libs: "Oh you're pro-life?? Does that mean you also want to take care of children when they're born?"
Republicans: "Yeah absolutely. Here's a bill that would give tax relief to people who have big families."
Libs: "This is literally handmaid's tale shit!!" https://t.co/S3o9qg5jUa
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) March 2, 2023
Mainspring’s linear generator may speed the transition to a zero-carbon electrical grid. //
The linear generator can quickly switch between different types of green (and not-so-green, if need be) fuel, including biogas, ammonia, and hydrogen. It has the potential to make the decarbonized power system available, reliable, and resilient against the vagaries of weather and of fuel supplies. And it’s not a fantasy; it’s been developed, tested, and deployed commercially. //
It is currently installed at tens of sites, producing 230 to 460 kilowatts at each. We expect linear generators at many more locations to come on line within the next year. //
So rather than mimicking an engine, we designed a new machine that ties the compression and expansion motion directly to the generation of electricity, and in doing so provides the necessary reaction control. This machine ended up looking completely different from—and having almost no parts in common with—a conventional engine. So we felt a new name was needed, and we called it the linear generator.
How the linear generator works
Picture a series of five cylindrical assemblies arranged in a line, held within a boxlike frame. The central tube is the reaction chamber; it’s where the fuel and air go. On either side of it sits a linear electromagnetic machine (LEM) that converts the push from pressure directly into electric power. At each end of the generator is an air-filled cylindrical chamber that acts as a spring to bounce the moving part of the LEM back to the center. The whole arrangement—two air springs, two LEMS, and a reaction chamber—forms a linear generator core. It’s long and skinny: A machine rated at 115 kW is about 5.5 meters long and about 1 meter high and wide.
The LEM, in principle, is an electric motor that has been unrolled to form a line instead of a circle. It consists of a moving part—the translator—and a stationary part—the stator. //
One real-world example of the system working this way pairs our generators with a 3.3-megawatt rooftop solar array. When the sun is shining, our generators turn off, and when the sun goes down or goes behind a cloud, our generators automatically turn on within seconds, immediately providing precisely as much power as the building requires.
Nuclear energy has fallen off the radar screen since September, when the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant finally shut down. But Ukraine’s reliance on the three nuclear plants still operating—as well as their vulnerability—has never been higher. //
Keeping reactors fueled may pose an even bigger challenge. Ukraine is running short of fresh fuel, which must be swapped in in every 12 months. Meanwhile, spent fuel backing up at the plants is complicating those swaps. //
Ukraine and most other European countries with Russian-design reactors use fuel from the Moscow-based nuclear-energy giant Rosatom. Pittsburgh-based Westinghouse Electric is their only alternative fuel supplier, and demand far outstrips its supply.
You are probably thinking, “So what? My computer has all that too.” But the computer in front of me is not today’s MacBook, ThinkPad, or Surface computer.
Rather, it’s half-century-old hardware running software of the same vintage, meticulously restored and in operation at the Computer History Museum’s archive center. Despite its age, using it feels so familiar and natural that it’s sometimes difficult to appreciate just how extraordinary, how different it was when it first appeared.
I’m talking about the Xerox Alto, which debuted in the early spring of 1973 at the photocopying giant’s newly established R&D laboratory, the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). The reason it is so uncannily familiar today is simple: We are now living in a world of computing that the Alto created.
The Alto was a wild departure from the computers that preceded it. It was built to tuck under a desk, with its monitor, keyboard, and mouse on top. It was totally interactive, responding directly to its single user. //
By 1975, dozens of Xerox PARC’s researchers had personal Altos in their offices and used them daily. The large cabinet contained a CPU, memory, and a removable disk pack. On the desk are additional disk packs and the Alto’s vertical display, mouse, and keyboard. //
Broadly speaking, the PARC researchers set out to explore possible technologies for use in what Xerox had tagged “the office of the future.” They aimed to develop the kind of computing hardware and software that they thought could be both technologically and economically possible, desirable, and, perhaps to a lesser extent, profitable in about 10 to 15 years.
The type of computing they envisioned was thoroughly interactive and personal, comprehensively networked, and completely graphical—with high-resolution screens and high-quality print output.
The Soviets did not have the technology to make blades that could tolerate as high temperatures as the J58 turbine. As a result, the MiG-25 Foxbat flew slower than the SR-71 Blackbird. //
‘As it turns out, the Soviets did not have the technology to make blades that could tolerate as high temperatures as the J58 turbine. As a result, the MiG-25 flew slower than the SR-71 (Mach 2.83 rather than Mach 3.4), and its engine did not last the 400 hours between overhauls that the J58 managed.’
In fact, the SR-71 and MiG-25 are both thermally rather than power limited. Both have reserve power to climb (rapidly) at full speed. Their speed is limited by the temperature of their turbines, and not by power.
Plans for the first U.S. small modular nuclear power reactor got a boost on Tuesday as some Western U.S. cities vowed to continue with the NuScale Power Corp (SMR.N) project despite a jump in projected costs.
NuScale plans to build a demonstration small modular reactor (SMR) power plant at the Idaho National Laboratory. If successful, the six-reactor, 462 megawatt Carbon Free Power Project will run in 2030.
NuScale said in January the target price for power from the plant is $89 per megawatt hour, up 53% from the previous estimate of $58 per MWh, a jump that raised concerns about whether customers would be willing to pay for the power it generates.
But the consortium of cities in Utah, Idaho, New Mexico and Nevada called Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems, or UAMPS, greenlighted the project's budget and finance plan with 26 of 27 approving.
US Navy Nuclear Propulsion Plant Operator explains when a submarine reactor can be run at higher than 100% (and why the 105% on the reactor ordered in The Hunt for Red October movie would not be worth any risk to the ship and crew) //
Parameters for authorizing operating a US Navy submarine reactor plant above practicable design limits is well defined by NAVSEA 08 (which is the Naval branch of the Department of Energy).
To prove the value of general aviation, GAMA officials asked the folks at FlightAware to compile all the ADS-B traffic related to general aviation in the first 10 days of February 2023.
What they found was that there was an average of 45,000 general aviation flights a day. Hinson pointed out that this did not include helicopter flights, so the number is no doubt much larger than this.
Those 45,000 flights go to, on average, 5,000 airports a day.
The airlines only service 400 airports in the United States, so for folks in rural communities, GA is their connection to the world, GAMA officials said. //
Between 2019 and 2022, 324 airports lost airline service, with an average loss of 31% of airline flights, according to Pete Bunce, GAMA president and CEO. //
GA and business aviation also are the technology and safety incubator for all aviation, he said. //
Rich says
March 2, 2023 at 10:53 am
What irks me is to keep hearing the phrase “General aviation and BUSINESS aviation….”
As if those are two different things.
There are only three types of airplanes in the air.
1 Military
2 Airlines
3 GA.
If you aren’t in group 1 or 2 then you are part of GA.
“Business flights”, ag planes, cops, firefighters etc are ALL part of GA and when you artificially separate or subdivide GA you only weaken the collective power that GA has to protect itself.
RMS Lusitania was an ocean liner operated by the Cunard Company that served the Liverpool, England – New York City, United States route on the North Atlantic. The ship was designed by Leonard Peskett and built by John Brown and Company of Clydebank, Scotland. The ship was named after the ancient Roman province of Lusitania, which is now part of present-day Portugal and western Spain.
- Operator: Cunard Line, Ltd.
- Builder: John Brown and Co., Clydebank, Scotland
- Keel laid: 16 June 1904
- Launched: 7 June 1906
- Maiden voyage: Liverpool, England – New York, USA, 7 – 13 September 1907
- Round trip voyages: 101 (202 crossings)
- Length of career: 7 yrs, 9 months
Lusitania was launched on 7 June 1906 and entered service for Cunard on 26 August 1907. When she entered service, Lusitania set the records for the largest and fastest ship afloat, taking these records from the ships of the United Kingdom’s naval rival, Germany. Lusitania maintained these records until the entry of her twin sister Mauretania into the North Atlantic run. Lusitania, Mauretania, and slower but larger Aquitania provided a weekly passenger service for the Cunard Line just prior to the First World War.
During World War I, Germany waged submarine warfare against the United Kingdom. Lusitania, which had been built with the capability of being converted into a warship, was identified as a target. The German submarine U-20 torpedoed and sank her on 7 May 1915; this was early in the war before tactics for evading submarines were fully developed. The ship suffered two explosions, the second one which could never fully be explained, and sank in 18 minutes. The Lusitania disaster killed 1,192 of the 1,960 known people on board, leaving 768 survivors. Four of these survivors died soon afterwards of trauma sustained from the sinking, bringing the final death toll to 1,196.
The sinking turned public opinion against Germany, particularly those in Ireland and the then-neutral United States.
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Milhouse | March 1, 2023 at 10:45 pm
“Security from domestic violence, no less than from foreign aggression, is the most elementary and fundamental purpose of any government, and a government that cannot fulfill that purpose is one that cannot long command the loyalty of its citizens. History shows us – demonstrates that nothing – nothing prepares the way for tyranny more than the failure of public officials to keep the streets from bullies and marauders.
“Now, we Republicans see all this as more, much more, than the rest: of mere political differences or mere political mistakes. We see this as the result of a fundamentally and absolutely wrong view of man, his nature and his destiny. Those who seek to live your lives for you, to take your liberties in return for relieving you of yours, those who elevate the state and downgrade the citizen must see ultimately a world in which earthly power can be substituted for divine will, and this Nation was founded upon the rejection of that notion and upon the acceptance of God as the author of freedom.”
— Barry Goldwater
Eric Adams: ‘When We Took Prayers Out of Schools, Guns Came Into Schools’
“Don’t tell me about no separation of church and state. State is the body, church is the heart. You take the heart out of the body, the body dies.” //
New York City Mayor Eric Adams made a stunning admission at an interfaith breakfast:
At an interfaith breakfast Tuesday, Mayor Eric Adams seemed to regret the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling that banned school-sponsored prayer in 1962. //
GWB | March 1, 2023 at 2:24 pm
No, dingleberry, there were plenty of guns in school when we had prayer in them.
It was not that “guns came into schools” but that the moral restraints on the people with those guns were removed. One of Progressivism’s greatest wins. //
GWB | March 1, 2023 at 3:52 pm
State is the body, church is the heart.
No. The community – perhaps the nation – is the body. But not The State. This is the tell of his Progressivism.
The truth is that it’s important to speak your mind, he said, and he didn’t care too much about what anyone thought of him–except dogs, because he liked dogs. How do you sleep at night knowing some people don’t like you, he said some had asked him. “With the fan on,” he joked. “Because I think I make the right people mad.”
“What else is the truth?” Kennedy asked. “The truth is God is great, beer is good, and, and, the United States of America is star-spangled awesome!”
“I cannot imagine what the world would be like without our country,” he said.
“The truth is common sense is illegal in Washington, D.C.; I know, I’ve seen it first-hand,” Kennedy declared. “I wonder sometimes how some people in Washington, D.C., actually made it through the birth canal. The truth is we’re going to have to get some new conspiracy theories. Because all the old ones came true.
“The truth is, I do not hate anyone,” Kennedy avowed. “I look for grace, wherever I can find it, so I say this gently: the Biden administration sucks.” You measure it any way you want, he said; on any issue, Biden had been “spectacularly awful.”
“If you put President Biden in charge of the Sahara Desert, he would run out of sand,” Kennedy joked. “If the aliens landed in Washington, D.C., tomorrow and said ‘take me to your leader,’ it would be embarrassing.”
He then listed a variety of other truths.
“If you worked hard and earned it, you should get to keep most of it.”
“All life is precious — all life — and shame on those who celebrate actually celebrate abortion.”
“The Republican Party, I’m very proud of this, is the party of parents. because we understand that if you don’t love your children, your children won’t stop loving you your children will stop loving themselves.”
“We should have an election day, not an election month.”
“Illegal immigration is illegal, duh. Unless you peaked in high school, you know that. Why doesn’t President Biden?”
“If gun control laws worked, Chicago would be Mayberry. Instead, it is the world’s largest outdoor shooting range.”
“America was founded on the principle of free will and responsibility and I believe in that. Many in Washington do not.”
“Race should not be used to hurt a person or to help a person.You know why? Because the truth is also that souls have no color. To a bear, we all taste like chicken.”
“The Chinese Communist Party is a bunch of gangsters…I would not turn my back on President Xi if he were two days dead.”
“We must be armed if we want peace, because appeasing a tyrant is like trying to hand-feed a shark.”
Kennedy reminded the audience of those who had gone before us and given the last full measure of devotion in the defense of this nation.
“Arlington National Cemetery contains 400,000 reasons why you should stand your a** up for the national anthem,” Kennedy declared. “And those who disagree with me can stick that up their fact-checker.”
Kennedy wrapped up by saying our future could be better than our present or our past, but “no one was going to save us but ourselves.” He noted that most countries “die from suicide, not murder,” and that we had to be committed to fighting for America. “So join with me” and help fight for America, he said. “No one will ever say, Kennedy quit.”