Solar Roadways is a finalist in the 2010 ACE Awards 2010 EE Tuesday, April 27th

The Solar Road Panel is a series of structurally-engineered solar panels that are driven on.  They are feasible alternatives to asphalt roads, parking lots and driveways.  Energy can be used to supply businesses and homes. 

A series of panels forming a roadway is essentially a decentralized power grid.  LED's within can form messages pertinent to driving conditions.  The panels are able to heat themselves to eliminate snow and ice. The surface layer has great traction, can handle heavy loads and still allows sunlight to pass through to the solar collector cells.  The base layer below the electronics layer has the ability to serve the community with electricity and data streams such as phone and internet.

One benefit of a system of Solar Road Panels is the ability to help underdeveloped areas to have access to clean water.  According to the website the panels don't even have to be set up into a roadway.  Panels can provide electricity to run pumps for wells and satellite dishes.

Other clean water related issues that are being discussed is the problem of storm water from roadway runoff.

"We're experimenting with a solution to relocate stormwater. First, to a water treatment facility, where necessary. Then, to whatever location the filtered water is needed."

If you like the idea of this new kind of roadway, show your support.  Solar Roadways is on Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace.

Solar Roadways was selected as a finalist in the Most Promising Renewable Energy Categoary for the 2010 EE Times ACE Awards. Awards will be presented on April 27th during the Embedded Systems Conference Silicon Valley.

The following companies are up against Solar Roadways: Cymbet, National Semiconductor, and PV Powered, Inc.

The EE Times Annual Creativity in Electronics (ACE) Awards celebrate the creators of technology who demonstrate leadership and innovation in the global industry and shape the world we live in.

 

The presentation of the 2010 EE Times ACE Awards will take place on Tuesday, April 27th at the Club Regent Room in the Fairmont. All finalists are invited to attend. Complimentary tickets will be sent directly to each finalist company.

Tickets are $99.00 per person and include a one and half hour cocktail reception and awards presentation.

CleanWear Aims for Positive Impact with "Put on a Clean Shirt" Message

Hope for a Child's Future Spurs a Small Business

 The story behind CleanWear Fashion is not an unfamiliar one when it comes to parents not only trying to cope with a child's struggle with drug abuse, but provide for guidance and a hopeful message with meaning and substance.


I first became aware of CleanWear when being offered a sponsored link distribution. At first I was confused as to what they were all about, but I knew there was a message. I felt like I was onto something good and diverted my attentions away from the task at hand. I think I was ripe to hear a feel-good story with substance and was hoping this would be one. My first jump was to their story page and there I found the heart of the matter.

CleanWear Fashions is a fresh homegrown business built on the desire to give hope and provide opportunity to those in negative situations that impact personal and societal growth, in turn benefiting the community as a whole.

According to the founders of this homegrown business:

CleanWear came to be in the fall of 2009 when our family envisioned a way for our oldest son, Josh, to have a second chance at success after many years of substance abuse problems that led him down a dark road.

They believe that communities should not dismiss those that have made mistakes or have lacked opportunities. Those at CleanWear wish to make a positive impact with their "Put on a Clean Shirt" message as well as provide support for those wanting to pull away from addiction, abuse, poverty, homelessness and other situations that impact personal and societal growth.

The CleanWear mission is as striking as their clothing line. A portion of their revenue from clothing and fashion accessories goes toward personal growth programs such as addiction and education. They are committed to hiring people who need a second chance. Presumably not wanting to take a narrow approach, they strive to keep manufacturing of their products within American borders whenever possible.
Their clothing label ranges from bold urban to humorous, appealing to a broad market. Josh's parents nurtured his love of art, wrapping it around a business model to ensure an outlet for his creativity. This start up is an active member on Twitter and Facebook, attempting to utilize social media marketing to get out the word about their mission and interact with fans who understand the deeper meaning.

It's not just a shirt, it's about hope and empowerment. When communities pull together, have a solid plan, and lift others up, we are surely all better off. Indeed it often takes faith to understand the value of a mission like this. Smart business plans and the visibility of a product tempered with gratitude make it that much easier to have the continued strength and reach needed to keep pulling up on the bootstraps of our neighbors.

CleanWear Fashion is about helping a person help themselves, actively using their resources to lift others out of despair and give them opportunities to keep their head above water. If you believe in what they are doing, please take the time to show your support.

The World's Best Psychics

By Jeffry Palmer


Ask most people who the world's best psychics are and they will probably name the ones they have last seen on television, people like Sylvia Brown or John Edwards. I want to point out that a syndicated television show or regular appearances on Montel Williams do not necessarily equate to great psychic ability. In fact it may mean that these people are better at marketing themselves than they are at using the psychic faculties of their minds.

The truth of the matter is that the world's best psychics are people you have never heard of. Some of the world's best psychics are farmers, plumbers, students, and people just like you. They may not publicize their psychic abilities; actually it is quite common for many people with psychic abilities to keep the fact a secret. Most people fear ridicule and it is a sad fact that psychic abilities still have a stigma attached to them.

Some people who have exhibited incredible psychic abilities are placed into special secret government experimental programs. These people are isolated from the public, kept under military guard and studied for possible military and espionage purposes. In the past individuals like this have exhibited the ability to psychically transport material from one location to another, exert control over time and space and cause physical damage to another human being using psychic means across a great distance. It is easy to see why these people are never heard of even though the may be some the greatest psychics ever to walk the earth.

In China today there is an active and growing psychic research program in place, in what Chinese researchers refer to as EHF or Exceptional Human Functions. The psychics involved in research programs such as this are rarely known by the public. China is not alone in conducting secret psychic research programs. A classified program focusing on psychic remote viewing took place in the US for many years until it was made public and discontinued in the 1990's. Only a few years ago, the US Air Force applied for 7.5 million dollars in funding to study psychic teleportation. One has to wonder what type of covert research programs are underway right now in the US and what abilities such programs may be studying.

Today's most popular psychics appear on national radio shows and make failed predictions or appear on Larry King and attempt to refute skeptical analysis of their abilities. Meanwhile psychics of vast ability are the subject of secret government and military experiments into the control of matter, the manipulation of time and the expansion of awareness beyond the physical realm. And you will never hear their names mentioned on TV.

Jeffry R. Palmer is an Intuitive Advisor, author and researcher who offers psychic readings by email from his website Psychic Clairvoyant Readings

Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Jeffry_Palmer

Get ready France Switzerland Argentina Brazil for The Men Who Stare at Goats by Purchasing The Predator Used by George Clooney

The Men Who Stare at Goats opens in theatres during the month of March in some countries.
According to IMDb:

Germany	4 March 2010
Austria	5 March 2010
Spain	5 March 2010
France	10 March 2010
Switzerland	10 March 2010	(French speaking region)
Switzerland	11 March 2010	(German speaking region)
Argentina	12 March 2010	(Pantalla Pinamar Festival)
Brazil	26 March 2010
Singapore	1 April 2010
Argentina	22 April 2010

If you have seen the previews for The Men Who Stare at Goats you may be wondering if that little piece of plastic George Clooney uses on Ewan McGregor is real.  The Predator is real and also available as a set that includes a limited edition signed DVD instructional video.

Watch the inventor of The Defender series of non-lethal self-defense weapons demonstrate it’s pain compliance ability on Jon Ronson, writer of the book The Men Who Stare at Goats.

You can purchase the Predator from the inventor, Peter Brusso. (International orders gladly accepted and you can pay with PayPal.