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New solar-powered water purification method shown during the G20 meetings in Pittsburgh
“Inexpensive solar-powered water purification promoted”

A solar-powered water purification system demonstrated on Wednesday by a New Castle (PA) company on the eve of the Group of 20 summit could combat a growing world health crisis: access to clean water.

“Our vision is to have these in place all over the world,” said Tom Joseph, the founder and president of Epiphany Solar Water Systems Inc.

The model shown yesterday near the Carnegie Science Center can purify about 30 gallons of water a day. But the system can be scaled up to “hundreds of gallons a day or larger,” said Joseph.

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Announcement on ‘Colbert Report,’ Treadmill Named C.O.L.B.E.R.T.
Official patch for “C.O.L.B.E.R.T.,” the Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill. Click image to enlarge. Credit: NASA
(See our earlier article: Naming Colbert or Not)

The International Space Station module formerly known as Node 3 has a new name. After receiving more than a million responses in an online poll, NASA is naming the node “Tranquility.”

The name Tranquility was chosen from thousands of suggestions submitted by participants on www.nasa.gov. The “Help Name Node 3″ poll asked people to vote for the module’s name either by choosing one of four options listed by NASA or offering their own suggestion.

Tranquility was one of the top ten suggestions submitted by respondents to the poll, which ended March 20.
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Just learned that Stephen Colbert, the TV satarist/comic, has a bunch of votes on the NASA website to name a new component, Node 3, of the Space Station after him, i.e. colbert. As he said on the Today Show, today:”Why not?”.

It’s not exactly a measurement or measurement education topic, but it fits the Deming vs Dilbert Model quite well, in my opinion.

According to NASA’s web page:

NASA wants your opinion in naming the International Space Station’s Node 3 – a connecting module and its cupola – before the two segments travel to space and are installed on the orbiting laboratory. The name should reflect the spirit of exploration and cooperation embodied by the space station, and follow in the tradition set by Node 1- Unity- and Node 2- Harmony

So, what would you do? Would you like to name part of the International Space Station after a USA TV comic, or not? Well, if the answer is yes you better do it really soon, the voting ends tomorrow, March 20, 2009 at 4:00 pm EDT in the USA.

For those of you who wish to read more, I added some of the NASA info below.

Where do you vote? Click here to go to the NASA web page where you can vote “COLBERT” or “NOT” or anything you want. More than a million votes have been tallied as of today. (NASA’s suggestions are: Earthrise, Legacy, Serenity and Venture)

Here’s more about Node 3 from the NASA web pages:
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CyberLearning Educational Society, NGO arm of www.cyberlearningindia.com, in association with Rotary Club of New Delhi.
Successfully concluded a pilot program to bridge the digital divide amongst students from disadvantaged families. This significant pilot was aimed at schools adopted by Rotary Club of New Delhi.

In the last decade, the information age revolution has brought India to being considered as IT Super Power. To ensure that the benefits of this revolution reach everyone especially the students and youth from underprivileged families, CyberLearning and Rotary Club of New Delhi initiated this digital learning and certification program.
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