http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/sense/ en-us Tue, 22 Sep 2009 03:53:18 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2345280/posts OTTAWA -- The recession in Canada is only over in a technical sense because the recovery is extremely fragile and there are still problems in the job market, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Monday. "We've got (Federal Reserve) Chairman (Ben) Bernanke and others saying the recession is over but I think that's only in a technical sense," Mr. Harper told a televised news conference in Guelph, Ont. "As long as we continue to have challenges in the labor market that affect Canadian families on the ground, then I don't think we can truly say the recession is over. So... Reuters via Financial Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2345280/posts#comment Tue, 22 Sep 2009 03:53:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2068068/posts Have you ever noticed that herds of grazing animals all face the same way?Images from Google Earth have confirmed that cattle tend to align their bodies in a north-south direction. Wild deer also display this behaviour - a phenomenon that has apparently gone unnoticed by herdsmen and hunters for thousands of years. BBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2068068/posts#comment Tue, 26 Aug 2008 03:59:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1947384/posts FORWARD OPERATING BASE KALSU, Iraq, Jan. 2, 2008 – With small additions like street lights, a sense of safety is returning to the streets of two Iraqi communities. A concerned local citizen stands watch near a checkpoint in Arab Jabour, Iraq, Dec. 27, 2007. Street lights, a recent addition to the area, have improved the security climate. Photo by Sgt. Luis Delgadillo, USA  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. More than a month after street lights were installed in Arab Jabour and Buaytha, south of Baghdad, local citizens and soldiers of the 3rd Infantry Division’s 2nd Brigade Combat Team,... American Forces Press Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1947384/posts#comment Wed, 2 Jan 2008 23:30:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1836765/posts Office of Representative Heath Shuler Representing North Carolina’s Eleventh Congressional District For Immediate ReleaseMay 8, 2007Contact: Andrew Whalen, Communications Directoroffice: (202) 225-6401 / cell: (202) 731-5116 ________________________________________________________________________ Congressman Heath Shuler to Senate: No Amnesty for Illegal Immigrants Washington, D.C. – Representative Heath Shuler joined with several fellow members of Congress todayto urge the Senate to resist attempts to grant amnesty to illegal immigrants. “This is an issue that Democrats and Republicans should stand together on,” said Rep. Shuler. “We should stand for the rule of law and what is right. We cannot, we must not, and we should not reward... shuler.house.gov http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1836765/posts#comment Sun, 20 May 2007 17:26:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1831052/posts WASHINGTON, May 9, 2007 – After meeting with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and other Iraqi leaders in Baghdad today, Vice President Richard B. Cheney said he noticed “a greater sense of urgency now than I’d seen previously” on the part of those leaders to meet their obligations toward continuing the country’s progress. Cheney stopped in Baghdad for a previously unannounced visit to kick off a weeklong tour of the Middle East that will also include stops in the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan. In his meetings with Iraqi leaders, Cheney emphasized the importance of making progress... American Forces Press Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1831052/posts#comment Thu, 10 May 2007 00:51:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1762305/posts Daley aims to pass new gun laws By Gary Washburn Tribune staff reporter Published January 4, 2007 Buoyed by the General Assembly's passage of a gun-control measure amid a long string of rejections, Mayor Richard Daley on Wednesday unveiled the city's 2007 legislative agenda with a renewed emphasis on handgun violence. Daley called for passage of half a dozen bills, to be introduced by local state lawmakers, that would restrict sales and the types and numbers of weapons that Illinoisans could buy. E-mail this story Printable format Search archives RSS Noting that guns were involved in more than 80 percent... Chicago Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1762305/posts#comment Thu, 4 Jan 2007 15:43:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1715133/posts Artificial whiskers that mimic the way rats and seals sense their prey might one day let planetary rovers or uncrewed submarines explore the shape and texture of strange objects they encounter on their travels. So says Joe Solomon and Mitra Hartmann at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, who have developed delicate artificial whiskers - in both steel and plastic - that can accurately sense different shapes and textures. Rats actively rotate, or "whisk", their whiskers against objects to discern features, while seals keep their whiskers relatively fixed to sense changes in wake flow that might mean prey is nearby. Previous... New Scientist http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1715133/posts#comment Fri, 6 Oct 2006 22:12:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1687127/posts It would be easy to jump on the bandwagon when it comes to the subject of illegal immigration-but whose bandwagon should I jump on, and where is it headed? The Inside Straight http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1687127/posts#comment Mon, 21 Aug 2006 02:42:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1671032/posts This might not be a world war, but it still needs a sense of urgency By Niall Ferguson (Filed: 23/07/2006) This is not the first time that world leaders have had their summers ruined by "a quarrel in a far-away country between people of whom we know nothing". In the summer of 1938, the quarrel between Germans and Czechs over the Sudetenland - which inspired Neville Chamberlain's notorious phrase - brought Europe to the brink of war. Chamberlain's shuttle diplomacy, which saw him fly three times to see Hitler in Germany, was inspired by memories of an earlier quarrel over... The Telegraph (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1671032/posts#comment Mon, 24 Jul 2006 00:29:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1574284/posts Congressman Marty Meehan of Massachusetts is a career politician. And like other career politicians he is a big fan of memory holes. You know, as in George Orwell's "1984," wherein Big Brother put inconvenient facts down the memory hole, not to be spoken or read or remembered. The Lowell Sun reports that Meehan's congressional staff, on taxpayer time, altered his biography on Wikipedia. That's the Internet website billed as the world's largest encyclopedia. Gone down the memory hole went this entry: "Meehan first ran for Congress in 1992 on a platform of reform. As part of that platform Meehan made... Americans for Limited Government http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1574284/posts#comment Wed, 8 Feb 2006 15:04:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1561966/posts SAN DIEGO – A report released by the San Diego pension system board Friday details how the city racked up a pension deficit estimated at $2 billion, saying the system's underfunding plan did not make sense. The 240-page report, prepared by the forensic accounting firm Navigant Consulting of Chicago, outlined the now-familiar decisions made by the city and the pension board that led to underfunding of the San Diego City Employees' Retirement System and the current fiscal crisis that grips the city. The consultants found that city underfunding schemes approved in 1996 and 2002 "did not make economic or actuarial... San Diego Union - Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1561966/posts#comment Sat, 21 Jan 2006 01:37:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1560609/posts "You Can Call Me Bwana, Ferguson." January 18, 2005 I’m going to start a rickshaw factory. It’s so our kids will have a way to make a living, now that America is pulling out of the First World. Maybe I’ll put an iPod socket on the poles or a little tiny television, made in Japan. That way our puzzled offspring won’t inadvertently start thinking. Tradition provides an anchor in the circumambient chaos. See, what’s going to happen is, all the design work and programming are going to Mumbai, except the part that already has. Manufacturing is pretty much in China... Fred On Everything http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1560609/posts#comment Thu, 19 Jan 2006 00:20:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1551375/posts WASHINGTON, Jan. 3, 2006 – Troops conducting urban operations soon will have the capabilities of superheroes, being able to sense through 12 inches of concrete to determine if someone is inside a building. The new "Radar Scope" will give warfighters searching a building the ability to tell within seconds if someone is in the next room, Edward Baranoski from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Special Projects Office, told the American Forces Press Service. By simply holding the portable, handheld device up to a wall, users will be able to detect movements as small as breathing, he said. The Radar... American Forces Press Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1551375/posts#comment Wed, 4 Jan 2006 00:23:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1538454/posts Supreme Mufti of Russia, Head of the Central Muslim Spiritual Government (MSG) Talgat Tajuddin does not back the statement of MSG of the Asian part of the country Nafigulla Ashirov against Orthodox symbols on the Russian State Emblem and other state symbols, a REGNUM correspondent informs. “None of the Russian Muslim spiritual leaders or any other confession spiritual leaders can ask to remove any symbols from the Russian State Emblem, because the legislation of our country separates state and Church,” said Tajuddin: “So the demand to remove the cross from the Russian State Emblem is incorrect and intolerable. If everybody... regnum http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1538454/posts#comment Sun, 11 Dec 2005 23:25:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1520437/posts "... When one really takes a step back and examines the facts, it becomes obvious why nobody was indicted in the whole Plame affair. Unfortunately, most of today's media is interested only in hyping situations for one of two reasons: politics and/or ratings. They should be ashamed of themselves because they are putting a ridiculous, unnecessary burden on the White House ..." Nadd.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1520437/posts#comment Fri, 11 Nov 2005 22:15:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1497274/posts 5-October-2005 -- ZENIT.org News Agency WHAT THE UNBORN SENSE IN THE WOMB Interview With Dr. Carlo BellieniROME, OCT. 5, 2005 (Zenit.org).- During its gestation the fetus is "already a member of the family and company for the mother even before being born," says neonatologist Carlo Bellieni. Dr. Bellieni of the Department of Neonatal Intensive Therapy of the University Polyclinic Santa Maria Le Scotte of Siena talked with ZENIT about his research on life-before-birth for his latest book "L'Alba dell'Io" (Dawn of the I), published by Società Editrice Fiorentina. Q: Until the 1980s it was thought that the maternal uterus was a... EWTN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1497274/posts#comment Wed, 5 Oct 2005 22:16:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1466285/posts August 6th marked the 60th anniversary of America’s use of an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. While some still argue that President Truman’s decision to use the A-bomb was “controversial,” they are afflicted with the scourge of our time, the loss of a sense of moral proportion and certainty. Unfortunately, those with relativistic morals will lead us to see the day when nuclear weapons are used again – this time to end once and for all the barbaric savagery of Islamism. Green Left Weekly (GLW) calls the U.S. putting a swift end to WWII – using atomic... War to Mobilize Democracy, LLC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1466285/posts#comment Fri, 19 Aug 2005 00:38:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1452323/posts SALISBURY - Rowan County officials paid private investigators more than $23,000 over the past five years to search for the writer of anonymous letters criticizing county spending. According to the private eyes, that person turned out to be one of the county's own. The Board of Commissioners never discussed or approved spending for the investigation at any formal meeting. Only County Manager Tim Russell, his assistants and possibly two commissioners' chairmen knew of the investigation, The Salisbury Post reported. Russell said he hired the agency because of the letters' threatening tone. The investigation was revealed after Kiker Investigations issued a... The Charlotte Observer http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1452323/posts#comment Thu, 28 Jul 2005 13:49:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1364833/posts 1 The placebo effect DON'T try this at home. Several times a day, for several days, you induce pain in someone. You control the pain with morphine until the final day of the experiment, when you replace the morphine with saline solution. Guess what? The saline takes the pain away. This is the placebo effect: somehow, sometimes, a whole lot of nothing can be very powerful. Except it's not quite nothing. When Fabrizio Benedetti of the University of Turin in Italy carried out the above experiment, he added a final twist by adding naloxone, a drug that blocks the effects... New Scientist http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1364833/posts#comment Thu, 17 Mar 2005 18:25:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1346212/posts Science Points to a 'Sixth Sense' Thu Feb 17,11:47 PM ET Health - HealthDay By Ed Edelson HealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, Feb. 17 (HealthDay News) -- Ever get a gut feeling something just isn't quite right, and make a decision accordingly? Science is beginning to suggest those instincts may have roots deep in the brain. Yahoo! Health Have questions about your health? Find answers here. Research in young volunteers points to some kind of "sixth sense" -- a mechanism in the brain that picks up on subtle clues, then sends out subconscious signals of trouble ahead. The finding could help explain... HealthDay Reporter http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1346212/posts#comment Fri, 18 Feb 2005 20:43:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1331038/posts WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vice President Dick Cheney raised eyebrows on Friday for wearing an olive-drab parka, hiking boots and knit ski cap to represent the United States at a solemn ceremony remembering the liberation of Auschwitz. Other leaders at the event in Poland on Thursday marking the 60th anniversary of the death camp's liberation, such as French President Jacques Chirac and Russian President Vladimir Putin, wore dark, formal overcoats and dress shoes or boots. "The vice president, however, was dressed in the kind of attire one typically wears to operate a snow blower," Robin Givhan, The Washington Post's fashion writer,... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1331038/posts#comment Sat, 29 Jan 2005 00:19:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/734316/posts The purpose of FreeRepublic.com's multiple message boards is to limit the topics for each board to particular topics. Posting the same message on all the boards defeats the purpose of multiple-boards for special topics. It is very annoying to see the same message on every bulletin board. PLEASE! DO THE READERS A FAVOR. STOP CROSS-POSTING YOUR MESSAGES! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/734316/posts#comment Fri, 16 Aug 2002 14:39:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1168805/posts Electronic skin could give machines a sophisticated sense of touch. A flexible friend: rubber polymers form the basis of an electronic skin.© Takao Someya Group Robots are about to get more feeling. An electronic skin as sensitive to touch as our own is being developed by scientists in Japan."Recognition of tactile information will be very important for future generations of robots," says Takao Someya at the University of Tokyo who developed the skin. A sense of touch would help them to identify objects, carry out delicate tasks and avoid collisions. But while a lot of effort has gone into vision... Nature http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1168805/posts#comment Sat, 10 Jul 2004 14:57:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1163537/posts Robots are about to get more feeling. An electronic skin as sensitive to touch as our own is being developed by scientists in Japan. "Recognition of tactile information will be very important for future generations of robots," says Takao Someya at the University of Tokyo who developed the skin. A sense of touch would help them to identify objects, carry out delicate tasks and avoid collisions. But while a lot of effort has gone into vision and voice recognition for robots, touch sensitivity is still fairly rudimentary. Our own skin contains a battery of touch receptors that produce nerve signals... Nature Reviews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1163537/posts#comment Thu, 1 Jul 2004 07:28:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/988463/posts TOKYO (AP) -- A Japanese researcher claims that dogs can sense imminent earthquakes and that observing their behavior could improve prediction efforts. Kiyoshi Shimamura, a public health doctor, said that during years of practice he noticed a jump in dog bites and other dog-related complaints around times that earthquakes occurred. Shimamura said his observations prompted him to examine the records of such complaints from 12 public health centers in parts of western Japan affected by a 1995 Kobe earthquake that killed more than 6,000 people. He said accounts of dogs barking excessively, biting and displaying other unusual behavior spiked by... NW Cable News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/988463/posts#comment Wed, 24 Sep 2003 14:19:04 GMT