“Mine government” plans borrow $1.6 trillion more this year, which equals $16,000 for every household in the country. In a few years it will be $8.5 trillion, or more.
In his State of the Union our President talked about job creation, but where is that money going to come from? He says with tax incentives i.e.: less revenue. We are no where near out of the 2nd Great Depression. Hold on.
The dollar amounts of dough are enormous. We don’t just need a household tightening the budget, we need an actionable plan.
Sorry Bill Gross I sold many of my PIMCO Bond funds. Long Term bonds won’t be a good hedge against the rapid inflation we are destined to see.
And putting your wealth into C.D.’s makes no sense at less than 1%
I sold my California Bond Funds and keep searching hoping to find some higher rated ones which won’t go bankrupt with the State of California.
Our deficits are financed by the Chinese – but those savers are seeing inflation rise.
The Chinese, like the U.S. and the world – because we are all one big Wall Street are all going to raise interest rates.
I’m hanging on to my gold stocks, even though Gold took a dip today. And I see buying opportunity tomorrow. My picks are International, Indian, gold stock and
Apple (it’s international) AAPL DEO GLD IACI IBN IFN SLB
Make the most of your tax shelters. Taxes are only going up. Give as much as you can to your 401(k) or equivalent, your IRAs, 529 college savings plans for the children.
Get a low fixed-rate 30 year mortgage on your home while you can, High Balance Loans may not exist in April 2010. Don’t pay huge fees
Dump your risky stocks on an up day. Today the market showed you just how shaky America and world markets are. Just because a stock dipped cheap compared to what you thought in the past doesn’t mean the business model is good or anyone is going to buy what they make create and do.
Take good care of yourself. Eat far less fat and more colorful variety. Get the ground ready for your spring vegetable garden. It is easier to exercise and eat right than to go to the doctor and try and fix some illness.
Be a good listener. Be kind to your spouse. Getting divorced is the dumbest most costly mistake. I know.
Smile more. Donate things you don’t need. There are many out there who require help. You will reap the benefit of less clutter and confusion, and God will know.
1/28/2010
ROGER DUBE
Scientist of the Future
Turning Poison Gas to Good Use
Alchemy
By
Carson Barbeau age 13
1/25/2010
Mrs. Halterman
Science Period 4
Scientific process can be a winding path from research, information gathering, tedious work and sometimes recognizing the beauty of an accident. This paper followed that walk from me deciding to find a scientist I might want to study and ending up somewhere else, but somewhere familiar. Allow me to explain.
First, I wanted to find a scientist who is alive and I wanted someone who had invented smart bombs or worked on smart missiles. I wanted to know about them because it is a resent thing and its interesting. I began with the internet, and searching much of the information is classified or in foreign languages. What I learned; however, is vehicle guidance systems have seekers with a “pitch and yaw control” which is an apparatus that often is controlled by laser. I found a paper by Roger Dube, a physics Professor at RIT about lasers and use of measurements in relationship to directing these little bombs. This peaked my mind’s attention because my grandfather was a physicist and I have a related cousin at RIT. I went to the University website and actually emailed the professor about my interest. I also emailed Bill Broza who is a student in the nanotechnology department and he knew the Professor, but has not taken a class from him. This round about method led me to choose Dr. Dube, by chance but also his name was just so amazingly cool and many of his patents and research were interesting. So began my research paper on a Scientist. My first question was how efficient is Dr. Dube’ process of laser zapping methane into useful gas
.
“I’m sure as a young scientist you can appreciate that we cannot determine the overall efficiency of converting methane gas to longer chain hydrocarbons until we have a working process in the lab. At this time in the project, all of our focus is on making that work. The concept is that by exciting methane molecules in certain modes using finely tuned laser light, we might be able to increase the reaction of methane into longer chains (such as ethane, butane, etc) and do so with gain. The key questions are: how much gain can we get, and how much overall energy did we have to expend to get that gain.
You asked about the laser power consumption – an efficient 100 milliwatt laser will require 40 watts to operate, so the laser itself is only about 1/4 of one percent efficient. So we need lots of gain (at least a gain of 400!) to make this worthwhile! That’s what the team is focused on!”
Dr. Roger Dube
Professor, Center for Imaging Science
Rochester Institute of Technology
Roger Dube attended Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences as a physics and math major. He was developing new experiments for the freshman physics lab and got a National Scholarship grant to work on the Kapitza-Dirac project at Harvard for a summer. Roger is a Native American and at this early age he lobbied Cornell to have programs to attract Native Americans. Something not mentioned in his story is that there are few Native American scientists as few black scientists as well.
He went on to Princeton to the doctorate program. His thesis was about measuring mass to light ratios in galaxies far away where we have no way of viewing. Next he went to Kitt Peak in Tucson Arizona and worked on array detectors and Charge Injection Devices. Basically tiny machines to measure light and make things click. These are used in digital cameras today.
A year later Dr. Dube moved his family next to Pasadena. His wife Jeri and their children were off to California to work for CalTech/JPL. He worked on the same spacecraft my grandfather worked on. Dr. Dube did not like California at all. He likes hiking and camping and the smog in Pasadena in those years was terrible.
In a year he took a job soon after at University of Michigan and travelled back and forth working on a project in Tucson with optics, soft wear and deflection of starlight. Around this time IBM in Tucson recruited him to be a staff scientist. Dr. Dube loved working for IBM and developed holographic storage in crystals. Dr. Due said IBM allowed him to be creative and he worked long hours because he loved the science. IBM moved him to their Yorktown facility. He was promoted and became the Head of the atomic force microscope project. This project got a Nobel Prize. Dr. Dube was well received by the scientific community with this world renowned award.
He fell into a friendship with another scientist in Florida and they started researching authentication of persons over the internet. His book “Hardware Based Computer Security Techniques to Defeat Hackers,” is very important with today’s internet. Companies have hackers who for fun or to steal money crack into banks, businesses and even our government computers. He used physics to make cryptographs and math to create code like models that can’t be cracked because they change. Dr. Dube used his early education to apply math and physics to making random cloaking for computers. I thought it was a cool idea to clock a computer to protect it because it was hiding under something.
The most fascinating project he is and has worked on is using Laser light on methane gas to create clean fuel. Think of it! Methane gas comes from human made sources such as cars, livestock, manure, coal mining, waste water treatment plants, garbage dumps, and burning crops like in the Central Valley in the winter. All this junk we as humans put in the air (some smaller amount is naturally made by wetlands and permafrost letting out gas.) If we could find a good use for all the garbage gas (methane the human like trash) that is hurting our ozone and is poisonous to our world as a fuel it would be amazing. Dr. Dube has found a way to convert methane into liquid methanol. This could stop all greenhouse gas problems. The National Science Foundation gave him a grant and he has jobs available for college students and others to help him finish the project. Often college science students work with professors to work out the bugs in their theories or inventions. Right now it is pretty expensive to convert the methane, so the important thing is to find a way to make it cheaper.
Dr. Dube started Gate Technologies. His own company Gate is also owned by his friend R. L. Morgenstern. In 2007 he started teaching at RIT. He loves teaching in a university where the students are amazingly smart.
Dr. Dube has 30 US Patents and a few more in process. Many of the patents are for monitoring anomalies, file protection, storing information on holograms, and holographic things. He has a mind that keeps asking questions and looks at the world from a different angle to solve problems. Dr. Dube’s college students who work at the center for Imaging Science collects information for agencies like the World Bank and United Nations. For example when the Haiti earthquake occurred they first hand had cameras which had images of the streets of Haiti from above. Dr. Dube and his students were one of the first to collect money for Haiti relief effort because they saw the devastation often before the news. Dr. Dube has a great heart.
So you, just like I wanted to know. Did Dr. Dube work on smart bombs? He didn’t answer the question. I think he didn’t because he laughed off the question.
http://www.cis.rit.edu
http://wwweurekalert.org.pub_releases/2009-10/riot-rss102209.php
http://www.enyclopedia.com.doc/1G1-189971565.html
http://www.carboncapturereport.org/cgi-bin/biodb?PROJID=10&mode
National Science Foundation website numerous pages viewed
Hardware Based Computer Security Techniques to Defeat Hackers: From Biometrics to
Quantum Crytography, by Roger R. Dube, J Wiley (publisher), September 3, 2008.
Scientist of the Future
Turning Poison Gas to Good Use
Alchemy
By
Carson Barbeau age 13
1/25/2010
Mrs. Halterman
Science Period 4
Scientific process can be a winding path from research, information gathering, tedious work and sometimes recognizing the beauty of an accident. This paper followed that walk from me deciding to find a scientist I might want to study and ending up somewhere else, but somewhere familiar. Allow me to explain.
First, I wanted to find a scientist who is alive and I wanted someone who had invented smart bombs or worked on smart missiles. I wanted to know about them because it is a resent thing and its interesting. I began with the internet, and searching much of the information is classified or in foreign languages. What I learned; however, is vehicle guidance systems have seekers with a “pitch and yaw control” which is an apparatus that often is controlled by laser. I found a paper by Roger Dube, a physics Professor at RIT about lasers and use of measurements in relationship to directing these little bombs. This peaked my mind’s attention because my grandfather was a physicist and I have a related cousin at RIT. I went to the University website and actually emailed the professor about my interest. I also emailed Bill Broza who is a student in the nanotechnology department and he knew the Professor, but has not taken a class from him. This round about method led me to choose Dr. Dube, by chance but also his name was just so amazingly cool and many of his patents and research were interesting. So began my research paper on a Scientist. My first question was how efficient is Dr. Dube’ process of laser zapping methane into useful gas
.
“I’m sure as a young scientist you can appreciate that we cannot determine the overall efficiency of converting methane gas to longer chain hydrocarbons until we have a working process in the lab. At this time in the project, all of our focus is on making that work. The concept is that by exciting methane molecules in certain modes using finely tuned laser light, we might be able to increase the reaction of methane into longer chains (such as ethane, butane, etc) and do so with gain. The key questions are: how much gain can we get, and how much overall energy did we have to expend to get that gain.
You asked about the laser power consumption – an efficient 100 milliwatt laser will require 40 watts to operate, so the laser itself is only about 1/4 of one percent efficient. So we need lots of gain (at least a gain of 400!) to make this worthwhile! That’s what the team is focused on!”
Dr. Roger Dube
Professor, Center for Imaging Science
Rochester Institute of Technology
Roger Dube attended Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences as a physics and math major. He was developing new experiments for the freshman physics lab and got a National Scholarship grant to work on the Kapitza-Dirac project at Harvard for a summer. Roger is a Native American and at this early age he lobbied Cornell to have programs to attract Native Americans. Something not mentioned in his story is that there are few Native American scientists as few black scientists as well.
He went on to Princeton to the doctorate program. His thesis was about measuring mass to light ratios in galaxies far away where we have no way of viewing. Next he went to Kitt Peak in Tucson Arizona and worked on array detectors and Charge Injection Devices. Basically tiny machines to measure light and make things click. These are used in digital cameras today.
A year later Dr. Dube moved his family next to Pasadena. His wife Jeri and their children were off to California to work for CalTech/JPL. He worked on the same spacecraft my grandfather worked on. Dr. Dube did not like California at all. He likes hiking and camping and the smog in Pasadena in those years was terrible.
In a year he took a job soon after at University of Michigan and travelled back and forth working on a project in Tucson with optics, soft wear and deflection of starlight. Around this time IBM in Tucson recruited him to be a staff scientist. Dr. Dube loved working for IBM and developed holographic storage in crystals. Dr. Due said IBM allowed him to be creative and he worked long hours because he loved the science. IBM moved him to their Yorktown facility. He was promoted and became the Head of the atomic force microscope project. This project got a Nobel Prize. Dr. Dube was well received by the scientific community with this world renowned award.
He fell into a friendship with another scientist in Florida and they started researching authentication of persons over the internet. His book “Hardware Based Computer Security Techniques to Defeat Hackers,” is very important with today’s internet. Companies have hackers who for fun or to steal money crack into banks, businesses and even our government computers. He used physics to make cryptographs and math to create code like models that can’t be cracked because they change. Dr. Dube used his early education to apply math and physics to making random cloaking for computers. I thought it was a cool idea to clock a computer to protect it because it was hiding under something.
The most fascinating project he is and has worked on is using Laser light on methane gas to create clean fuel. Think of it! Methane gas comes from human made sources such as cars, livestock, manure, coal mining, waste water treatment plants, garbage dumps, and burning crops like in the Central Valley in the winter. All this junk we as humans put in the air (some smaller amount is naturally made by wetlands and permafrost letting out gas.) If we could find a good use for all the garbage gas (methane the human like trash) that is hurting our ozone and is poisonous to our world as a fuel it would be amazing. Dr. Dube has found a way to convert methane into liquid methanol. This could stop all greenhouse gas problems. The National Science Foundation gave him a grant and he has jobs available for college students and others to help him finish the project. Often college science students work with professors to work out the bugs in their theories or inventions. Right now it is pretty expensive to convert the methane, so the important thing is to find a way to make it cheaper.
Dr. Dube started Gate Technologies. His own company Gate is also owned by his friend R. L. Morgenstern. In 2007 he started teaching at RIT. He loves teaching in a university where the students are amazingly smart.
Dr. Dube has 30 US Patents and a few more in process. Many of the patents are for monitoring anomalies, file protection, storing information on holograms, and holographic things. He has a mind that keeps asking questions and looks at the world from a different angle to solve problems. Dr. Dube’s college students who work at the center for Imaging Science collects information for agencies like the World Bank and United Nations. For example when the Haiti earthquake occurred they first hand had cameras which had images of the streets of Haiti from above. Dr. Dube and his students were one of the first to collect money for Haiti relief effort because they saw the devastation often before the news. Dr. Dube has a great heart.
So you, just like I wanted to know. Did Dr. Dube work on smart bombs? He didn’t answer the question. I think he didn’t because he laughed off the question.
http://www.cis.rit.edu
http://wwweurekalert.org.pub_releases/2009-10/riot-rss102209.php
http://www.enyclopedia.com.doc/1G1-189971565.html
http://www.carboncapturereport.org/cgi-bin/biodb?PROJID=10&mode
National Science Foundation website numerous pages viewed
Hardware Based Computer Security Techniques to Defeat Hackers: From Biometrics to
Quantum Crytography, by Roger R. Dube, J Wiley (publisher), September 3, 2008.
1/19/2010
Water Emergency??! Thanks Moulton Niguel Water
Moulton Niguel Water District Acts Great as Police Force BUT FAILS TO HAVE A WORKING PLAN
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Galen D Powers | Senior Founder |
| Daniel M. Powers | CEO |
| Richard S. Fiore | President |
| Pam Newman | CFO |
| Peter E. Racobs | Vice President |
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