William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 2-27-15
Q — Whose home was Longwood and where was it?
A– It was the name of Napoleon’s residence on Saint Helena
Day: February 27, 2015
Anti-Vaxxers Take Issue
Chris Freind’s column Vaccination Mandates Are Necessary is getting negative feedback on Twitter. Young robot redhead trying to be creative? That’s cold. 
Anyway, a friend has sent us the other side regarding why vaccinations should not be mandated.
Many may think something calling itself Off The Grid News should be an object of mirth rather than be taken seriously but it is a huge mistake to dismiss it and similar sites, and fail to discount their influence.
The anti-vaxxer movement should be proof enough of that.
Regarding vaccinations, the principles that should be followed are freedom, honesty and information not force, intimidation and mocking.
It is quite appropriate for a hospital to require its workers to be vaccinated. If one wishes not to be vaccinated one has the freedom not to work there.
It is also appropriate for a public school to require its pupils be vaccinated — providing opportunities are provided for children whose parents wish them not to be. Cyber-charter schools — and they exist in Pennsylvania — would be one example. Property tax exemptions for parents who home school their children works as well. And funding via vouchers for like-minded parents who want to have communal schools without a vaccination mandate also solves the problem.
It should be noted that not mandating vaccinations is not banning them. If people trust the information they get they will act on it. The Amish are noted for their suspicions of modern ways. Did you know that most of the Amish population –63 percent — is vaccinated?
Anti-Vaxxers Take Issue
Modumetal Is Rearden Metal?
Seattle-based Modumetal has created a nanolaminated alloy that is stronger and lighter than steel, and is being tested in oil fields, according to MIT Technology Review.
The company’s founders are physicist Christina Lomasney, chemical engineer John Whitaker, and mechanical engineer Leslie Collinson.
Modumetal says its product is 10 times stronger than existing steel and much more resistant to corrosion.
A big plot point in Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged concerns Rearden metal, a radical alloy lighter and stronger than steel.
It looks like it’s now here and just in time for 2016 which is when the fictional alloy was to come to be.