<b>Clouds in the Sky Keep Us Standing
In-Line</b>

post from CR4 - Recent Blog Entries on 15 June 2011 04:38:46 PM. © CR4 - Recent Blog Entries

Last month, a significant eruption of the Grímsvötn volcano in Iceland reminded us just how valuable air space can be. Thousands of passengers were grounded and approximately 900 flights delayed, as volcanic ash jeopardized air travel.The recent eruptions in Iceland are typical of hot spots an

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Total Quality Management and the Supply Chain

post from CR4 - Recent Blog Entries on 15 June 2011 04:37:00 PM. © CR4 - Recent Blog Entries

Editor's Note: CR4 would like to thank Edward Eisermann of GEA Consulting for contributing this blog entry.Coordinating all the elements of a process intended to provide clients a quality product is not easy. A total quality management system throughout the supply chain is needed to support th

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Is Telecommuting for You

post from CR4 - Recent Blog Entries on 15 June 2011 04:29:00 PM. © CR4 - Recent Blog Entries

More companies than ever before now allow employees to sometimes work from home and access work resources via the Internet. Does yours? If so, are certain conditions required — for example, using a company-recommended antivirus program? Are there other restrictions? Would you do it more often

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Men in skin-tight leotards

post from Pharyngula on 15 June 2011 04:20:07 PM. © Pharyngula

If you've ever read a comic book, you know the conventions: men must be immensely muscular, women must be full-breasted and wasp-waisted (and we're not even talking Rob Liefeld here). Furthermore, the superhero costume for women must expose as much skin as possible: bare midriff almost always, low cut top, and the buttocks must be exposed. So in addition to an unnatural physique, the women must strut about in costumes that would look revealing in a strip club.

Megan Rosalarian Gedris is turning that all around. She's redrawing comics featuring those slinky sexy women and putting the male characters in their costumes. It's only fair, after all.

It takes a special kind of man to pull off this look, and clearly, your standard issue bulging bicep comic book superhero is not manly enough to do it.

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How convenient

post from Pharyngula on 15 June 2011 03:37:24 PM. © Pharyngula

Gary Bradley, a professor at the Seventh Day Adventist college La Sierra University, has been under fire because he teaches evolutionary biology competently — he doesn't accept the young earth creationism that SDA dogma demands. The battle is over, though, and he and several others have been asked to resign for great crimes.

According to the Spectrum article, Darnell met up afterward with Beach, Bradley, and Kaatz at a private home, where they watched a National Basketball Association playoff game and discussed the meeting. The recorder kept running, unbeknownst to the four men. It captured "foul language, references to alcohol consumption and unflattering comments being made about board members, administrators, and church leaders," according to the article. Darnell then sent the recording to a number of key members of the Adventist community, including The Spectrum, reportedly without knowing that it contained more than just the audio of the meeting. Eventually, the recording made its way to Ricardo Graham, chair of the board of trustees.

I think they're all better off getting out of that crazy place. The absurdity of being pressured to teach lies in the classroom ought to have been reason enough to leave, but that they have employers who want to control what they do after hours in their own homes ought to convince anyone that it's time to leave.

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Guest Blog - Melissa Rice: In memory of Spirit,
and why cuteness matters

post from Planetary Society Weblog on 15 June 2011 03:21:57 PM. © Planetary Society Weblog

Melissa Rice is a graduate student at Cornell who's using Mars Exploration Rover Pancam data to study the surface composition and history of water at Gusev Crater. She also works on the rover's operations team as a Pancam Payload Downlink Lead. Click to enlarge >Melissa Rice at LPSC 2009 Credit: The Planetary Society / A.J.S. Rayl by Melissa Rice NASA made its final attempt to uplink a command to the Spirit rover on May 25. That afternoon, a ....

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Historic Final Flight of Space Shuttle Endeavour

post from Planetary Society Weblog on 15 June 2011 02:17:35 PM. © Planetary Society Weblog

by Ken Kremer After a 16 day journey of more than sixteen million miles, Space Shuttle Endeavour and her six man crew glided to a safe nighttime landing at 2:35 a.m. EDT on June 1 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. I watched from close by the shuttle landing strip as the ghostly ship flew past, preceeded by shocking twin sonic booms. The STS-134 mission marked the end of Endeavour's space flight career. It was the penultimate flight ....

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A bubble nestled in the Scorpions sting

Speaking of Scorpius…The constellation really is coincidentally shaped like a scorpion, complete with claws and a curved tail. If you look to the tail, near the stinger, there is a vast star-forming region that is not at all obvious in visible[...]

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Structural Issues Doom WTC's Glass Facade

It appears that structural issues, not politics, have doomed plans to enclose the new 1 World Trade Center in a glass facade. Initial plans called for sheathing part of the structure in special prismatic glass panels, basically for visual and aesthetic effect. But glass-strengthening issues apparent

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Do Work-related Networking Sites Work

They say that work-related networking sites, such as LinkedIn and JobFox, are the best way to advance your career or find a job (See Careers and Commentary). Do you belong to such sites and, if so, have they been helpful in your job search?The preceding article is a "sneak peek" from Glass, Cerami

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