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Friday, August 31, 2012
Hurricane Season?s Approach Raises Concerns about Buried Oil
Every year, people who live along the coastal areas of the Gulf of Mexico prepare themselves mentally and physically for the approach of hurricane season. For as long as anybody can remember, the end of summer has brought battering storms that can flood marshes and wetlands, bringing storm surges that batter the shore and challenge power lines, levees and low-lying areas. But since the Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010, the normal concerns about having enough fresh water to drink and batteries and flashlights on hand for when the power goes out have been exacerbated by worries about what the coming storms may drive up from the ocean?s bottom. When the BP oil spill occurred in April of 2010, it poured millions of barrels of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico, and that oil spread from as far west as the shores of the state of Texas to as far east as the Florida Keys. Concerns about the oil led BP and the EPA to allow the use of Corexit, a powerful chemical dispersant that successfully broke up many of the oil slicks that were floating on the ocean?s surface, but left at least a million gallons of dispersed oil merged with toxic chemicals lying at the bottom of the ocean. The concerns about the impact of the oil lying still there a mile down below the surface have been strident; the coming of storms strong enough to churn the waters and bring those toxic substances back up to the surface are bringing near panic to residents who have already been through the ringer far too many times.
The BP Oil Company has worked hard to calm these fears, saying that it is unlikely that a hurricane would be able to stir up anything from the depths of the ocean, and pointing out that if any tar balls or tar mats appear on beaches they are prepared to come and clean them up, as they have done in the past. The access to that kind of clean-up effort is reassuring to a degree, but for residents of the Gulf who are already concerned about chemical exposure from two years ago, the idea that any storm might revisit that exposure on them is enough to cause serious concern. Scientists have mixed opinions as to whether a powerful storm could raise debris from the ocean?s bottom, but confirm that a storm surge into the low-lying wetlands that still hold residual oil would probably raise crude and chemicals that are settled in the marshes.
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Thursday, August 30, 2012
NASA Launches Radiation Belt Storm Probes Mission | Aerospace ...
WASHINGTON ? NASA?s Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP), the first twin-spacecraft mission designed to explore our planet?s radiation belts, launched into the predawn skies at 4:05a.m. EDT Thursday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.
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?Scientists will learn in unprecedented detail how the radiation belts are populated with charged particles, what causes them to change and how these processes affect the upper reaches of the atmosphere around Earth,? said John Grunsfeld, associate administrator for NASA?s Science Mission Directorate at Headquarters in Washington. ?The information collected from these probes will benefit the public by allowing us to better protect our satellites and understand how space weather affects communications and technology on Earth.?
The two satellites, each weighing just less than 1,500 pounds, comprise the first dual-spacecraft mission specifically created to investigate this hazardous regions of near-Earth space, known as the radiation belts. These two belts, named for their discoverer, James Van Allen, encircle the planet and are filled with highly charged particles. The belts are affected by solar storms and coronal mass ejections and sometimes swell dramatically. When this occurs, they can pose dangers to communications, GPS satellites and human spaceflight.
?We have never before sent such comprehensive and high-quality instruments to study high radiation regions of space,? said Barry Mauk, RBSP project scientist at the Johns Hopkins University?s Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md. ?RBSP was crafted to help us learn more about, and ultimately predict, the response of the radiation belts to solar inputs.?
The hardy RBSP satellites will spend the next 2 years looping through every part of both Van Allen belts. By having two spacecraft in different regions of the belts at the same time, scientists finally will be able to gather data from within the belts themselves, learning how they change over space and time. Designers fortified RBSP with special protective plating and rugged electronics to operate and survive within this punishing region of space that other spacecraft avoid. In addition, a space weather broadcast will transmit selected data from those instruments around the clock, giving researchers a check on current conditions near Earth.
?The excitement of seeing the spacecraft in orbit and beginning to perform science measurements is like no other thrill,? said Richard Fitzgerald, RBSP project manager at APL. ?The entire RBSP team, from across every organization, worked together to produce an amazing pair of spacecraft.?
RBSP was lifted into orbit aboard an Atlas V 401 rocket from Space Launch Complex-41, as the rocket?s plume lit the dark skies over the Florida coast. The first RBSP spacecraft is scheduled to separate from the Atlas rocket?s Centaur booster 1 hour, 18 minutes, 52 seconds after launch. The second RBSP spacecraft is set to follow 12 minutes, 14 seconds later. Mission controllers using APL?s 60-foot satellite dish will establish radio contact with each probe immediately after separation.
During the next 60 days, operators will power up all flight systems and science instruments and deploy long antenna booms, two of which are more than 54 yards long. Data about the particles that swirl through the belts, and the fields and waves that transport them, will be gathered by five instrument suites designed and operated by teams at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark; the University of Iowa in Iowa City; University of Minnesota in Minneapolis; and the University of New Hampshire in Durham; and the National Reconnaissance Office in Chantilly, Va. The data will be analyzed by scientists across the nation almost immediately.
RBSP is the second mission in NASA?s Living With a Star (LWS) program to explore aspects of the connected sun-Earth system that directly affect life and society. LWS is managed by the agency?s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. APL built the RBSP spacecraft and will manage the mission for NASA. NASA?s Launch Services Program at Kennedy is responsible for launch management. United Launch Alliance provided the Atlas V launch service.
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Merkel in control despite allies' Greek cacophony
FILE - In this Aug. 24, 2012 file photo German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, and Prime Minister of Greece Antonis Samaras, right, shake hands after a joint news conference as part of a meeting at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany. Merkel wants the Greeks to keep the euro. Her vice chancellor says it wouldn't be so bad if they abandoned the common currency. Another ally says Greece should leave the euro club within months. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, File)
FILE - In this Aug. 24, 2012 file photo German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, and Prime Minister of Greece Antonis Samaras, right, shake hands after a joint news conference as part of a meeting at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany. Merkel wants the Greeks to keep the euro. Her vice chancellor says it wouldn't be so bad if they abandoned the common currency. Another ally says Greece should leave the euro club within months. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, File)
FILE - In this April 21, 2012 file photo general secretary of the Bavarian Christian Social Union, CSU, Alexander Dobrindt and Bavarian Prime Minister Horst Seehofer share a word in Andechs, southern Germany. Dobrindt was quoted as telling the mass-circulation Bild am Sonntag newspaper that "there is no way past a Greek exit from the eurozone" and added: "I see Greece outside the eurozone in 2013." (AP Photo/dapd, Lennart Preiss)
FILE - In this Dec. 16, 2011 file photo German Chancellor Angela Merkel from the Christian Democrats, right, and Vice Chancellor Philipp Roesler from the Free Democrats listen to the debate at the parliament Bundestag in Berlin, Germany. Merkel wants the Greeks to keep the euro. Her vice chancellor says it wouldn't be so bad if they abandoned the common currency. Another ally says Greece should leave the euro club within months. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)
BERLIN (AP) ? Chancellor Angela Merkel wants the Greeks to keep the euro. Her vice chancellor says it wouldn't be so bad if they abandoned the common currency. Another ally says Greece should leave the euro club within months.
Merkel's image abroad may be that of Europe's determined taskmaster, but at home the picture has long been less clear: Her coalition government has become notorious for infighting over a range of issues. At first glance, the cacophony over Greece fits that picture ? but it shouldn't be mistaken for policy drift.
The chancellor still appears in control of the delicate balancing act she has performed for two years: to help struggling countries that accept tough budget cuts and reforms while convincing Germans she is defending their interests ? and wallets.
This week, a prominent lawmaker from a party allied with Merkel made headlines when he declared that Greece should leave the eurozone in 2013 ? flatly contradicting Merkel. His party backed down from such talk after she said in a television interview that politicians should "weigh their words."
Her personal popularity and reassuringly level-headed image, along with the opposition's reluctance so far to pick a serious fight, still give her room for maneuver against domestic pressure and foreign governments anxious for Germany to bail out weaker European economies.
Manfred Guellner, head of the Forsa polling agency, said that "people appreciate Merkel and in the end go along with her course" in hopes that the economic problems gripping much of Europe won't affect their lives.
Merkel's government insisted on tough conditions in return for German, and European, support for eurozone strugglers such as Greece and the two other countries that have received bailouts, Ireland and Portugal. With borrowing costs for Italy and Spain worryingly high, more such aid is likely to lie ahead.
Her diligence in demanding budget cuts and structural reforms as the price for German aid may be unpopular in Greece or Italy but it plays well among German voters.
"I think Merkel, whatever she does, will get a majority because the (opposition) Social Democrats and Greens also have to be statesmanlike," he said.
Merkel hasn't come close yet to losing any parliamentary vote on eurozone rescue measures. Although more than 20 coalition lawmakers voted in June against setting up a permanent European rescue fund, she had solid support in the 620-member parliament, with much of the opposition in favor.
The three-year-old coalition of Merkel's conservative Christian Democratic Union, its Bavarian sister, the Christian Social Union, and the pro-market Free Democrats has squabbled endlessly and inconclusively over issues as diverse as tax cuts, privacy laws and highway tolls.
The bickering extends to policy regarding the European debt crisis.
But on Europe, there's a key difference in that the center-right alliance agrees on the broad outline: It's united by distaste for pooling Germany's debt with that of southern strugglers and of making open-ended commitments to help them with economically sound Germany's check book. The opposition ? as well as many private economists ? argues for pooling debt.
Coalition lawmakers broadly agree that Greece shouldn't have more aid money on top of the two ?240 billion ($300 billion) bailout packages of which Germany has been a key financier and that Athens shouldn't be given more time to meet its reform commitments.
Bailing out Greece was never popular in Germany, and frustration with Athens is rising.
Raising questions over Greece's future in the euro offers hopes of political gain to some in Germany's two junior coalition parties, which both face domestic political challenges, though Guellner cautioned that "no party in Germany has ever been able to score points with the euro and the issue of Europe."
The Free Democrats won nearly 15 percent of the vote in Germany's 2009 election, but have slumped to around the 5 percent needed to win seats in Parliament ? a contrast with the solid ratings of Merkel's CDU, which consistently leads polls.
Their leader, Vice Chancellor Philipp Roesler, has struggled to turn around their fortunes.
Roesler irked Merkel last fall by talking about the possibility of an "orderly insolvency" for Greece, ignoring heavy hints from the chancellor to drop the subject.
This summer, he said a Greek exit from the euro had "lost its horror." Roesler didn't explicitly call for Greece to leave and Merkel let that pass without comment.
She clearly wasn't amused, however, by a new broadside from the CSU that comes as it prepares for important local elections in Bavaria next year.
Just a day after Merkel asserted, while standing next to Greece's prime minister, that she wants Greece to stay in the eurozone and that others in the coalition do as well, CSU general secretary Alexander Dobrindt was quoted as telling the mass-circulation Bild am Sonntag newspaper that "there is no way past a Greek exit from the Eurozone." He added: "I see Greece outside the Eurozone in 2013."
Merkel shot back that people should take care what they say in a "very decisive phase" of the financial crisis.
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Samsung 22-inch Transparent Showcase Panel eyes-on at IFA 2012
What's the future of advertising? If Samsung has any say so, it's going to be transparent showcase displays. Here at IFA 2012, the company demoed one such 22-inch, fishbowl-like case outfitted with a see-through front panel capable of transmitting video imagery, in addition to hosting a physical product within. The glass enclosure's no mere dummy unit, as it's also outfitted with speakers, a built-in PC, LED strip and offers the option to include a touch screen. To highlight just what this kit's capable of, a looped Gucci ad played on its front screen, transitioning from near solid to completely transparent. It's really something that needs to be seen IRL, but take a tour of the gallery below to get a glimpse of what's to come.
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Wednesday, August 29, 2012
HBS Announces Partnership with LicenseLogix
Rick Bell, Chairman and CEO of Harvard Business Services, Inc., announced today a strategic partnership with LicenseLogix, LLC, the nation?s premier provider of state and local compliance services.
?We are pleased to offer new and existing clients this seamless service ? from entity formation and registered agent service to business license filings, renewals and compliance audits.? The collective service offering represents the entire sequence of regulatory compliance needs that can now be taken care of effortlessly,? said Bell, ?which is a first in our industry.?
Now, our two companies will ensure that businesses are in good standing with state and local governments, as well as maintain compliance, for the life of the company.
About LicenseLogix, LLC:
A team of attorneys, legal service providers, and technology professionals formed LicenseLogix, LLC to address a growing need for helping companies deal with various compliance requirements in all 50 States.
The experts at LicenseLogix, LLC provide business license research, application assembly, initial filings and renewals.? LicenseLogix, LLC prepares all documents necessary for the licensing process. ?All the client has to do is sign the applications. ?This helps businesses to get state and local licenses faster, and keeps them compliant with the law throughout the life of the company.
LicenseLogix offers personalized service with easy-to-use technology, ensuring that clients are properly licensed and their questions promptly answered.? Each client has a dedicated account manager who helps determine the appropriate license(s) required, fills out any applications, and communicates with the relevant licensing authority.
LicenseLogix services all companies, from single-owner LLCs and corporations to large companies with multiple entities doing business in all 50 states.
LicenseLogix and its Client License information Center (CLiC?) provide a user-friendly, secure, and cost-effective method to keep track of licenses in every jurisdiction while automating renewals and streamlining new license filings.? Information on deadlines, renewal fees, and relevant corporate documents is easily accessible and customized to each client.
Account managers are available any time to answer questions about CLiC, a company?s existing license portfolio, or license requirements in a new jurisdiction.
?We look forward to assisting the current and future clients of Harvard Business Services. In recent years, the regulatory burden has grown to be too much for many small companies to handle business licensing compliance efficiently in-house. We are pleased to supplement the outstanding services of HBS and certain to provide an excellent experience to their clients.? said David Yount, Founder and CEO of LicenseLogix LLC.
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Suicide bomber kills Muslim cleric in Russia
BOLGAR, Russia (Reuters) - A woman suicide bomber killed an Islamic cleric and at least five of his followers in Russia's southern Dagestan region on Tuesday as President Vladimir Putin visited another mainly Muslim area and called for an end to religious violence.
Said Atsayev, a 74-year-old Sufi Muslim spiritual leader also known as Sheikh Said Afandi al-Chirkavi, was killed when the woman entered his home disguised as a pilgrim and detonated an explosive belt around her waist, police sources said.
In a separate incident in another part of Dagestan, a border guard shot and killed eight other servicemen at a frontier post in Dagestan, Interfax news agency said. There was no immediate sign of a link between the two incidents.
The violence followed a suicide bombing that killed at least seven police in Ingushetia in Russia's turbulent North Caucasus on August 19 and an attack a day earlier in which masked gunmen opened fire in a mosque in Dagestan, killing one person.
Russia is struggling to contain an Islamic insurgency in the North Caucasus more than a decade after federal forces toppled a separatist government in a war in Chechnya. The violence threatens to spread to other mainly Muslim regions, some of which seek greater independence from Moscow.
"We will not allow anyone to tear our country apart by exploiting ethnic and religious differences," Putin said, appealing for unity and calling Russia "our common home" during a visit to Tatarstan, far to the north of Dagestan.
"Terrorists, bandits, whatever ideological slogans they use ... want to achieve only one thing: to sow hatred and fear."
"They stop at nothing - they kill people of the same faith and religious leaders, bring evil and spill blood during religious holidays," Putin said in Bolgar, a settlement in Tatarstan where Islam is considered to have been adopted as an official religion for the first time in Russia in 922.
He called for religious tolerance, describing it as "one of the foundations of Russian statehood for centuries," before giving a state friendship medal to Tatarstan's chief mufti, who survived a car bombing last month, and an Order of Courage to the widow of a deputy mufti shot dead the same day.
It was not clear whether Putin knew of the violence in Dagestan before he made his comments. Atsayev, killed in the suicide bombing, was popular among many in Dagestan, including in the government, and was an opponent of militant Islam.
Insurgents fighting to carve an Islamic state from the North Caucasus have staged attacks on officials and law enforcement personnel almost daily and have also increasingly targeted mainstream Muslim leaders backed by the authorities.
Putin, who started a six-year term in May, is eager to prevent the militant Islam that fuels the insurgency in the Caucasus from gaining ground in long-peaceful Tatarstan and neighboring Bashkortostan, which is also heavily Muslim.
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The former KGB officer became president after directing the war against separatist Muslims in Chechnya in 1999 when he was prime minister.
His 12-year rule has since been marred by violence in the Caucasus, which includes Chechnya, Dagestan and nearby areas, and attacks by insurgents from there, including a suicide bombing at a Moscow airport that killed 37 people last year and subway bombings that killed 40 in 2010.
Muslims are a large minority of some 20 million in Russia, a country of 143 million people. Attacks last week by racist soccer fans in Moscow and St Petersburg on Muslims from the Caucasus underscored potentially explosive ethnic tension.
Tatarstan, on the Volga 800 km (500 miles) east of Moscow, has not seen anything like the violence of the Caucasus regions some 2,000 km further south, but the car bomb attack on its chief mufti last month rang alarm bells across Russia.
Some Muslims in Tatarstan have expressed anger towards authorities and state-backed religious figures are restricting Islam in the name of fighting radicalism. Some moderate Muslims say radicals have arrived from outside the region.
"We are not the Caucasus. Two Tatars, even if they quarrel can sit down, drink tea and overcome their differences. We are northern people and we are more rational," said Kamil Samigullin, imam of the new White Mosque at the Bolgar settlement visited by Putin on Tuesday.
But Dzhaudat Kharrasov, imam of the Tukayev district of Tatarstan, said: "Radicalism is a problem. It cannot be denied, but it is frowned on by our people."
Putin also visited a church in Tatarstan, where 53 percent of the population are traditionally Muslim Tatars and nearly 40 percent are ethnic Russians, according to government statistics.
(Writing by Steve Gutterman, Editing by Timothy Heritage)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/bomber-kills-islamic-leader-3-others-russian-caucasus-142019477.html
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How a virus might make you diabetic later in life
ScienceDaily (Aug. 24, 2012) ? Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is one of the viruses that most infected people carry without ill effects. Once infected you are infected for life and, although it normally is dormant, it can become active again at any point in time. New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Immunity and Ageing shows that CMV infection is a significant risk factor for the type 2 diabetes in the elderly.
Obesity, inactivity and aging are known to be associated with insulin resistance, one of the first signs of incipient diabetes. However only a third of those with insulin resistance go on the develop type 2 diabetes. So what marks these people as different? Why do their pancreas' fail? Genetic and environmental factors are thought to play a part but so also does inflammation. People with type 2 diabetes usually have raised levels of biological markers for inflammation such as elevated CRP and larger numbers of active white blood cells.
Chronic infections including CMV can 'stress' the immune system and when researchers from Leiden University Medical Centre and University of Tubingen Medical School compared glucose regulation with antibodies to CMV (or CMV seropositivity) in over 500 participants of the Leiden 85-plus Study they found that having CMV was associated with type 2 diabetes.
The researchers suggest that CMV could be either acting directly on pancreatic cells or indirectly by causing the immune system attacking the pancreas. Dr Andrea Maier, who led the investigation explained, " In our study we realised that although CMV seropositivity was associated with type 2 diabetes, higher levels of HnA1c and high non-fasting glucose the actual level of antibodies against CMV was not. "
This study is looking at the effect of CMV on the very old. By their very nature these people have had longer to become infected with CMV and have low risks for other factors which are linked to diabetes or to cardiovascular disease. While it may not be possible to extrapolate these findings to the general population it seems likely that finding a way to overcome CMV infections may reduce diseases, such as diabetes, later in life.
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Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Fiscally conservative Romney-Ryan ticket: Does it appeal in Germany?
Germany has promoted austerity as central to fixing eurozone woes. So is there any resonance between Chancellor Merkel's views and the Romney-Ryan ticket?
Visitors surround German Chancellor Angela Merkel (R) during open house day at the Chancellery in Berlin, Sunday. Mrs. Merkel is facing re-election next year.
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EnlargeWith America's election day getting closer, Germans are following the tightening race between President Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney with increasing enthusiasm. Four years after Mr. Obama entered the White House he is still highly popular. But could Germans' interest in Romney rise with Paul Ryan on his ticket?
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Consider: Romney, like German Chancellor Angela Merkel, is a fiscal conservative. In a time of global economic crisis, his support for spending cuts in the federal budget could in theory prove highly popular especially with ?Madame No,? the power player in the euro crisis. Meanwhile, Obama's heroic status has inevitably come down to earth overseas. A Pew Research study from June 2012 shows that global approval of the policies Obama has promoted has declined significantly since he first took office, though in Germany, 87 percent of participants still expressed confidence overall in the president.
Stimulus packages
But throughout the economic crisis, the Obama White House was encouraging Germany to support more debt-increasing stimulus packages. Germany resisted, with Mrs. Merkel arguing that decreasing the debt was the solution for regaining political authority.
?Superficially, one could argue that Romney and Merkel share the same economic interests,? says Josef Braml, Program Officer USA/Transatlantic Relations at the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) in Berlin.
But Romney may still face an uphill battle in winning the hearts and minds of Germans and their leader.
Romney didn?t help himself with his Europe trip earlier this month, facing criticism for the countries he chose to visit and a number of his remarks. Then there is his economic philosophy.
The German and American definitions of conservative diverge sharply. Being conservative in Germany does not automatically mean promoting deregulation. ?In Germany, it is hardly imaginable to reduce the role of government in the way Romney/Ryan want to do it. The state and some regulation on the market play a bigger role in Europe,? says Mr. Braml.
Little social security
Merkel's politics are based on the social economic market, an economic model most political parties have followed since World War II. It's a compromise between social democracy and economic liberalism, combining private enterprise with government regulation to establish fair competition. ?Extensive cuts in social benefits, like Paul Ryan?s proposal to privatize Medicare, are not part of her political vision,? says Henriette Rytz from the German Institute for International and Security Affairs in Berlin. Germans have questions about how a Romney-Ryan team would cut government spending while expanding the military budget. And experts raise concerns about more social cuts in a system that ? compared to Germany ?? has little social security.
Moreover, whoever wins the presidential race in November is going to face a tough economic outlook for 2013. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the first half of 2013 will be difficult if currently planned spending cuts and tax hikes go into effect, with US GDP shrinking by 2.9 percent, followed by a second half growth rate of 1.9 percent.
This outlook will influence US foreign policy, Braml says. ?Neither a Democrat nor a Republican will have a lot of leeway. Because of its own economic problems, the USA will try to shift much of the burden onto its allies in Europe and Asia.?
Austerity policy
Looking at this global crisis, Merkel favors an austerity policy but also promotes a regulation of the financial sector and a financial transaction tax, something Romney would most likely not agree on.
?Given his campaign promise to repeal Dodd-Frank [Wall Street reforms], Romney is likely to object to government intervention in the global financial sector,? says Mrs. Rytz.
Merkel might give a future president Romney a warm welcome as a sometime-fellow conservative, but the differences in their economic policies would not likely translate into an immediately tight-knit relationship. And at any rate, for the next year, with an election looming, Merkel's main preoccupation jibes more closely with Obama's: getting reelected.
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U.K. Launches Emergency Response To Fight Cholera Outbreak In ...
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?The U.K. government has activated a ?2 million [$3.16 million] emergency plan to help tackle a cholera epidemic sweeping through Sierra Leone,? the Press Association reports, adding, ?The Department for International Development (DfID) says it is using a network that includes private businesses and specialist aid organizations to deliver emergency medical, water and sanitation assistance to affected people in the west African state? (8/25). ?It is the first time [DfID] has activated its Rapid Response Facility,? the Guardian notes, adding, ?The network was established in March and allows the U.K. government ?to commit to rapid humanitarian funding? within 72 hours in response to disasters and rapidly escalating humanitarian emergencies,? (Adetunji, 8/25).
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Fizzy Iced Chocolate
So there I was, standing in line at the grocery store.
Ho-hum.
The elderly gentleman in front of me was obviously a bit bored with the long line too because he turned around and start to examine what was in my shopping cart.
What was in my cart, you ask?
Nothing much as I don?t buy a whole lot at the grocery store. ?As I recall, there was a bag of organic Fuji apples, a bunch of seltzer water in glass bottles, gourmet butter in foil packaging, and several bags of epsom salts.
Yes, just about one of the most boring shopping carts you?ve ever laid eyes on. ?No colorful bags or boxes to be seen anywhere.
This gentleman fixes his gaze on the seltzer and starts telling me a story about when he was a child in Queens, New York and this yummy drink he and his brothers made out of club soda.
Do people like to spontaneously start talking to you when in line? ?Happens to me all the time. ?I think I have ?one of those faces? if you know what I mean.
Curious, I took the bait and asked him what kind of a drink he made.
With a twinkle in his eye, he tells me that they mixed club soda, milk, and chocolate syrup and that it tasted so great on a hot summer day. ? He told me quality food was hard to come by and this drink made the milk stretch a bit further during the Depression.
Even more curious as this drink did not at all sound yummy to me, I asked how much club soda and milk were used.
He said the drink was mostly club soda with just a bit of milk and chocolate syrup.
He assured me that my kids would love it and that I should try it.
After I arrived home, I told my kids the story and asked if they wanted to try out the drink. They all thought it sounded disgusting too but were game to give it a go since it came so highly recommended from someone who had obviously remembered it fondly for many, many years.
Tentatively, we mixed some raw grassfed whole milk, organic chocolate syrup and seltzer water in the following proportions:
75% seltzer, 25% milk, and a dash (no more than a tsp or so) of chocolate syrup. ? Carob syrup would work beautifully too. ?The key to this drink is to serve it really cold if possible! ? To my children?s delight, the drink formed a nice fizzy head on top like an ice cream soda!
If you are allergic to milk, I feel pretty sure this would be great with whole coconut milk too.
All three kids agreed after trying it that it tasted great! ? We decided to name it Fizzy Iced Chocolate. ?This is a nice drink to try if you are out of kombucha?or other healthy, homemade fermented beverages loaded with probiotics?and want something fizzy on your throat and (hopefully) don?t keep any soda around the house.
In fact, two of my children have asked me to pack it in their lunchboxes once in awhile.
The moral of this story is to chat up the folks in the grocery line. ?You never know what kind of crazy stuff or Depression Era recipes you are going to learn about!
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Monday, August 27, 2012
Stocks to rise, markets eye central bankers
By Ryan Vlastelica, Reuters
The streak is over, but is the trend intact?
A six-week string of gains in the S&P 500 ended on Friday amid shifting expectations for central bank stimulus. Next week could bring clarity on that issue, and that could determine whether the recent rally that took the index to four-year highs will persist.?
"The streak is broken, but the trend isn't, and I think the next major move on the S&P will push us up towards 1,450 or 1,500," said Mark Arbeter, chief technical strategist for Standard & Poor's in New York. "Small- and mid-cap stocks are near their all-time highs, and if they break those highs, I think that will prompt the market to really rip higher."?
Still, the market could be in for a bumpy ride next week ahead of Friday's meeting of central bankers in Jackson Hole, Wyo. Investors are looking for clues on whether Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will announce a third round of quantitative easing.?
Bets on aggressive action to increase growth have spurred most of the market's recent gains, meaning any disappointment could stop the rally in its tracks. The CBOE Volatility index or VIX, a measure of investor anxiety, jumped almost 13 percent this week.?
While many analysts expect QE3 -- and Bernanke wrote a letter to a congressional panel that the Fed has room to deliver it -- the odds seemed to decline following comments on Thursday from James Bullard, a non-voting member of the Federal Open Market Committee. He said the latest Fed minutes, which indicated the central bank might be ready for more stimulus, were "stale."?
"Rhetoric is going back and forth about what we can expect, and we could see some big gyrations going into the meeting, depending on the latest rumor," said Michael Matousek, senior trader at U.S. Global Investors Inc. in San Antonio, Texas.?
Is QE3 baked into the cake??
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In the recent six-week winning streak, the S&P's longest since January 2011, the index climbed 4.7 percent. That could indicate QE3 has already been priced into shares.?
"I think we're priced so that we won't see a major move if something is announced," Matousek said. "But if the status quo persists, which is what I'm expecting, that could be a big disappointment."?
Daily trading volume, which has been among the lowest of the year recently, is expected to remain muted ahead of the meeting. Low volume could amplify stock swings in both directions, and there is little other news to otherwise drive trading.?
Following the Jackson Hole meeting, there will be a market holiday on Sept. 3 for Labor Day. Trading is expected to pick up after that, with a major catalyst seen on Sept. 6, when the European Central Bank has its next meeting.?
The ECB recently pledged to "do whatever it takes" to address the euro zone's debt crisis, comments that contributed to recent positive sentiment.?
Earnings season is winding down, with only five S&P 500 components scheduled to report next week, including Tiffany & Co , Joy Global Inc and H.J. Heinz.
With 98 percent of S&P 500 companies having reported results, 67 percent have topped expectations by an average surprise factor of 4.3 percent, according to Thomson Reuters data. The 67 percent beat rate is higher than the long-term average of 62 percent. However, there have been some notable disappointments lately, including Hewlett-Packard Co.?
Economic indicators includes August reads on consumer confidence and sentiment, the latest read on Chicago PMI and July pending home sales. The Fed's Beige Book, a collection of anecdotal information on current economic conditions, will also be released.?
"The market is torn between macroeconomic concerns on one hand, and relatively good earnings and business trends on the other," said John Carey, who helps oversee $260 billion as a portfolio manager at Pioneer Investment Management in Boston.?
"I'm encouraged by the fundamentals out there, but unquestionably, the economy has slowed."?
The S&P 500 fell 0.5 percent this week, a relatively mild decline after six weeks of gains. On Tuesday, it surged to its highest level since June 2008 before pulling back. The Dow Jones industrial average slid 0.9 percent for the week, while the Nasdaq slipped 0.2 percent.?
"The market has been so strong lately that there's the idea Bernanke could pull back from QE3 as a result of that," said Randy Frederick, managing director of active trading at Charles Schwab in Austin, Texas. "But then, all that really means is that the market is able to stand on its own two feet."?
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Military vets on track to get high-demand education
By Rebecca Ruiz, NBC News
The Department of Veterans Affairs announced Monday that it has approved more than 36,000 applications for a training and education program designed for unemployed veterans.
Veterans Retraining Assistance Program (VRAP) was created as part of the Veterans Opportunity to Work (VOW) to Hire Heroes Act of 2011 and provides up to 12 months of training in more than 200 jobs skills.
Veterans who receive the benefit must enroll in a VA-approved program at a community college or technical school and train for a high-demand occupation. The Department of Labor has defined those fields to include positions like petroleum technician, paralegal, preschool teacher, radiation therapist and locomotive engineer.
VA has received 51,000 applications and approved 36,000; the program's goal is to train 99,000 veterans in the next two years.
Veterans who have been approved for VRAP are encouraged to enroll as soon as possible to start training full-time in a VA-approved program of study offered by a community college or technical school.? The program of study must lead to an associate degree, non-college degree, or certificate for a high-demand occupation as defined by DOL.
?The tremendous response illustrates how important this program is in providing veterans the opportunity to find employment in a high-demand field,? said Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki, in a statement released by the agency.
To be eligible for the program, a veteran must be between 35 and 60, unemployed and have received an honorable discharge, among other requirements.
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Sunday, August 26, 2012
Alt-week 8.25.12: robotic noses, Nodosaurs and Space X launches again
Alt-week peels back the covers on some of the more curious sci-tech stories from the last seven days.
All good things come to an end, they say. Thankfully, most bad things do, too. So while the rest of the world of tech is dealing with the fallout, and possible implications of patent law, over here in the wild party that is Alt, we're fist pumping at all the awesome weekly sci-tech fodder. For example, we've got a robo-nose that can sniff out nasties in the air, a 110-million-year-old footprint found in NASA's back yard, and not one, but two space stories to reflect on. There's a hidden joke in there too, come back once you've read through to find it. This is alt-week.
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Neighbors react to arrest of Wake Co. softball coach charged with indecent liberties
Raleigh?? A girl's softball coach?is charged with nine counts of indecent liberties with a child. Deputies from the Wake County Sheriff's office were ones who arrested?Raymond Green. The 41-year-old?coaches girl?s softball in various leagues around Wake?County. The allegations have rattled neighbors on the...
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Saturday, August 25, 2012
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Gunman kills 1 at Empire State Building, 9 wounded
NEW YORK (AP) ? A laid-off women's accessories designer shot a former coworker to death in front of the Empire State Building, causing a chaotic showdown with police Friday in front of one of the world's best-known landmarks. Police killed the suspect and at least nine others were wounded, some possibly by police gunfire, city officials said.
Some of the wounded were grazed by bullets and others hit directly, but all were expected to survive, officials said.
The gunshots rang out on the Fifth Avenue side of the building at around 9 a.m., a time of day when the sidewalks around the building are packed with pedestrians and merchants were opening their shops.
"People were yelling 'Get down! Get down!", said Marc Engel, an accountant who was on a bus in the area when he heard the shots. "It took about 15 seconds, a lot of 'pop, pop, pop, pop, one shot after the other."
Afterward, he saw the sidewalks littered with the wounded, including one person "dripping enough blood to leave a stream."
After the shootout, crowds of tourists and people on their way to work gathered along 34th Street, which was shut down by police. Police helicopters buzzed overhead and swarms of officers were gathered around the crime scene.
Jeffrey Johnson, 58, who was laid off about a year ago at Hazan Imports, fired three times at the company's 41-year-old office manager, shooting the man in the head, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said. The two had traded accusations of harassment when Johnson worked there, he said.
Johnson walked away, and a construction worker who saw the shooting followed Johnson and alerted two police officers, a detail regularly assigned to patrol the 1,454-foot skyscraper since the 9/11 terror attacks, officials said.
Surveillance video footage shows Johnson reaching into a bag, pulling out a .45-caliber pistol and pointing it at officers, Kelly said. The officers drew their weapons and started firing, killing Johnson, Kelly said.
Kelly initially said that Johnson fired on officers, but police said later they were trying to determine whether Johnson actually fired shots.
Erica Solar doesn't know who shot her in the back of the knee while she walked to get coffee on her way to work, said her brother, Louis Lleras.
"She just heard shots and she fell to the ground a couple of steps forward and noticed that she was shot," Lleras said.
The two officers fired a total of 14 rounds, he said. Mayor Michael Bloomberg said some of the nine wounded may have been shot by police in the mayhem. Johnson's semi-automatic weapon was equipped to fire at least eight rounds; at least one round was left in the clip, police said.
Johnson worked at the company near the building for about six years and was laid off because of downsizing, Kelly said.
"We were just working here and we just heard bang, bang, bang!" said Mohammed Bachchu, 22, of Queens, a worker at a nearby souvenir shop. He said he rushed from the building and saw seven people lying on the ground, covered in blood.
Queens resident Rebecca Fox, 27, said she saw people running down the street and initially thought it was a celebrity sighting, but then saw a woman shot in the foot and a man dead on the ground.
"I was scared and shocked and literally shaking," she said. She said police seemed to appear in seconds. "It was like CSI, but it was real."
Hassam Cissa, 22, of the Bronx, said he saw two bodies on the ground and police applying a white cloth to a man's stomach wound.
Gunshots so close to one of the city's leading tourist attractions immediately prompted fears of terrorism, but federal officials said that wasn't the case, and a guard at skyscraper said it didn't involve the parts of the building where tourists gather to visit the skyscraper.
The gunfire came less than two weeks after a knife-wielding man was shot dead by police near Times Square, another tourist-saturated part of the city. Authorities say police shot 51-year-old Darrius Kennedy after he lunged at officers with a kitchen knife Aug. 12. Kennedy was smoking marijuana in Times Square on a Saturday afternoon when officers first approached, police said. It was the beginning of an encounter that would stretch for seven crowded blocks.
In 1997, a gunman opened fire on the 86th floor observation deck of the Empire State Building, killing one tourist and wounding six others before fatally shooting himself.
Metal detectors and bag searchers have been standard at the 102-story skyscraper since the 1997 shooting.
Millions of tourists visiting New York ascend its heights to gape over the city from its observation deck, made famous in films such as "Sleepless in Seattle." It was 1933's "King Kong" that showed a giant ape clutching Fay Wray and fending off airplanes atop the tower.
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Contributing to this report were Alex Katz, Samantha Gross and Julie Walker.
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ITC decides Apple didn't violate Motorola WiFi patent after all, tosses case back to judge
Trouble looked to be brewing for Apple last April: an International Trade Commission judge made an initial ruling that Apple infringed on a standards-essential Motorola WiFi patent, raising the possibility of a trade ban if the verdict held true. The fellows in Cupertino may have caught a big break. A Commission review of the decision on Friday determined that Apple didn't violate the patent, and it upheld positions that exonerated the iPhone maker regarding two others. Apple isn't entirely off the hook, however. The ITC is remanding the case to the judge to review his stance that Apple hadn't violated a non-standards-based patent, which still leaves Apple facing the prospect of a ban. However, having to revisit the case nearly resets the clock -- we now have to wait for another ruling and a matching review, and that likely puts any final decision well into 2013. Google-owned Motorola isn't lacking more weapons in its arsenal, but any stalled proceedings take away bargaining chips in what's become a high-stakes game.
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Friday, August 24, 2012
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Patrick Kerscher, a principal broker with Landmark Commercial Real Estate, closed a rare deal earlier this week when he sold a multi-tenant retail building at Research and Union boulevards.
The 10,700-square-foot space sold for $2.45 million.
That was a fair price for seller and buyer, said Tucker Manion, a broker with Centre Point Properties in Denver who represented the buyer.
The buyer sold a multi-tenant property in west Denver and needed to reinvest in another property to avoid capital gains taxes. Manion said there is limited inventory of healthy mukti-tenant retail space in Denver.
?What was important for us was finding a grocery-anchored neighborhood center,? Manion said.
And they didn?t find what they were looking for up north and began looking down the Front Range, he said.
?This is a big check in the optimism column,? Kerscher said.
The market for multi-tenant retail has been nonexistent through the recession, he said. Most of the deals he?s brokers have been single-tenant spaces, especially with tenants like dollar stores and value menu restaurants.
?For someone to actually buy a multi-tenant building means there?s some confidence returning to the market,? Kerscher said. ?Hopefully we?ll see a lot more of this.?
There?s a lot of institutional money that has been sitting idle while Real Estate Investment Trust managers and other major players have been afraid to dive into the market. A sale like this one suggests to Kerscher that it?s only a matter of time before that money starts moving again. And, he said, he?s hopeful some of it will land in Colorado Springs.
?This woman picked this deal out of all the deals in the state,? he said.
Manion said multi-tenant retail spaces have been selling in Denver and the market there is picking up momentum.
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NFL fantasy football: Ryan Fitzpatrick has hidden value
NFL.com Staff | Tags: Three and out, Cedric Benson, Kenny Britt, Ryan Fitzpatrick
Main component: Buffalo Bills quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick will be the primary factor in the team?s success or struggles in 2012. According to GM Buddy Nix, ?I would say if (Fitzpatrick) plays good, we?ll be good?if he doesn?t, then we?ll be suspect.? Nix added that the Harvard product understands it?s ?vital? he ?doesn?t turn the ball over.? Fitzpatrick threw two or more interceptions in eight games last year (23 total), but still was able to finish 12th among all fantasy quarterbacks. Even with the struggles, he bested players like Ben Roethlisberger, Andy Dalton, Josh Freeman and Joe Flacco, and each of them are projected to finish ahead of Fitzpatrick in 2012. If he can limit turnovers, the veteran could be a steal given his ADP of 147.25 which slates him to be selected in the later-rounds.
New dimension: Green Bay Packers running back Cedric Benson made his preseason debut against his former team, the Cincinnati Bengals, on Thursday. As NFL.com?s Marc Sessler points out, the back ?closely resembled the hard runner who turned in three straight 1,000-yard seasons.? Fantasy football owners would also be wise to take note of the newest Packer. With James Starks struggling and Alex Green working his way back from ACL surgery, Benson is expected to lock up the starting role. For a team which led the league in scoring in 2011, the veteran is sure to see plenty of opportunities this season. Benson is currently being selected in the 14th round of drafts as a reserve. Owners should add him for depth purposes, but he does have excellent potential compared to other backs being selected in the later-rounds.
Still waiting: For fantasy football owners considering Kenny Britt as a potential option, you will have to wait longer before any official word is delivered regarding his possible suspension. NFL spokesman Greg Aiello told NFL.com?s Gregg Rosenthal, ?there are no specific timelines for these cases?each one is unique. When it?s done, it?s done and we announce something (or not).? Britt is currently being selected in the 11th round of NFL.com fantasy drafts as a reserve wideout. With reports his suspension is not likely to be long, selecting him that late carries good value. Only one season removed from notching nine scores, Britt could see a healthy amount of targets now that the big-armed Jake Locker is at the helm. Selecting him in the later-rounds has the potential to pay off once he returns, especially during the fantasy playoffs. Stash him now, and reap the benefits later.
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Sony patent wants to make advertising more interactive
We all know adverts are a necessary evil, which is why different companies are trying to make them more personalized, more engaging or just plain get rid of them. In a recently granted patent, Sony outlines its ideas for next-gen advertising on network-connected devices -- essentially to make it more interactive. Many of the instructional diagrams involve PS3 accessories in the home setting, but the focus isn't just on adverts as mini-games, which itself is nothing new. Other suggestions for keeping your interest include in-ad purchasing, casting votes or selecting the genre of commercials. To speed up, or get ads off your screen, Sony would have you performing small tasks or -- more sinisterly -- shouting brand names when prompted. Whether such immersive advertising will ever be employed is anyone's guess, but we're sure you're smart enough to know they're just tricks. So who's up for a McDonald's then?
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