CONWAY, Massachusetts (Reuters) - Rain and high winds lashed U.S. Northeast and mid-Atlantic states early Thursday, knocking out power to more than 330,000 homes and businesses bracing for a coming snowstorm.
Gusty winds of up to 77 miles per hour battered parts of New England and a high wind advisory remains in effect until 6 p.m. for northern Connecticut, most of Massachusetts, and southern New Hampshire, the National Weather Service said.
Thunderstorms rolled across the Northeast early on Thursday morning, toppling trees and downing utility lines. Among the hardest hit areas were Connecticut, where about 71,000 customers had no electricity, Long Island, with about 34,000 customers out, and New Jersey, where about 27,000 customers were without power, according to utility reports.
Raging winds tore the roof off of an elementary school in Fall River, Massachusetts, sending bricks and other debris crashing to the street below, local media reported. A large section of the roof of another elementary school, this one in Raynham, south of Boston, also was blown off, with some debris landing across the street. No one was reported injured.
Early morning bursts of wind and rain also caused traffic accidents. In Centerville, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod, a teenage girl crossing the street to board a school bus was seriously injured after being hit by a car in what police called a weather-related crash, local media said. In Boston, a toppled tree fell on an ambulance on its way to pick up a patient. No injuries were reported.
From Friday through the weekend, a series of storms threatens to dump snow from the Midwest to New England and the mid-Atlantic, according to meteorologist Alex Sosnowski on Accuweather.com. Slick conditions could snarl the Friday morning commute to Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, he said.
(Additional reporting by Scott DiSavino; Writing by Barbara Goldberg; Editing by Nick Zieminski)
Ready for yet another zombie themed game for your phone or tablet? Yeah, I'm getting a little burnt on the whole zombie kitsch myself, too. But this one's actually a good zombie themed game, and one you'll want to try.
Zombie Road Trip has a simple, yet familiar premise -- stay away from zombies that will eat you, and kill the ones that get in your path. Sounds familiar, right? Now imagine instead of running away, you're driving a dump truck that can do mid-air stunts and flips -- with a machine gun mounted on the hood. Now we're talking. Add in the upgradeable equipment, and easy controls and you have what I call a winner. Play it for ten minutes, and I think you'll agree.
Zombie Road Trip is an endless style game, where the gameplay only stops if you get eaten by the zombie horde that's trailing you. While you race for your life, you'll be faced with zombies in all shapes and sizes coming at you, just waiting for you to tap the screen and fire your weapon. You can mow them down (what good is a dump truck if you can't turn the bad guys into a bloody smear with it?), but this also slows you down. Slow players and fast zombie hordes make for a short game. While you're driving through the various terrain, you can flip and do stunts each time you get airborne. Each stunt you successfully pull off, or zombie you kill gives you coins which you can use to buy stuff to better kill zombies with. If you're impatient, you can also buy the coins via an in-app purchase.
The controls, as mentioned, are easy -- tap the bottom right to tilt clockwise, and the bottom left tilts you counter clockwise. Tapping anywhere on the screen fires your weapon. Controls that are easy to learn and master are a must for touch screen gaming and Zombie Road Trip does a great job here. This is a fun little game that you'll be able to play during those times when you only have a few minutes to kill, as well as when it's play time and you're up for a serious gaming session. It's free, runs on Gingerbread and higher, and you can grab it at the link above. Hit the break for some screenshots and the trailer video.
Jan. 30, 2013 ? There is growing evidence for the lasting impact of alcohol on the brain.? Excessive alcohol use accounts for 4% of the global burden of disease, and binge drinking particularly is becoming an increasing health issue. A new review article published in Cortex highlights the significant changes in brain function and structure that can be caused by alcohol misuse in young people.
Functional signs of brain damage from alcohol misuse in young people mainly include deficits in visual learning and memory as well as executive functions. These functions are controlled by the hippocampus and frontal structures of the brain, which are not fully mature until around 25 years of age. Structural signs of alcohol misuse in young people include shrinking of the brain and significant changes to white matter tracts.
Age of first use may be considered to trigger alcohol misuse. According to the researchers however, changing the legal drinking age is not the answer. In Australia the legal drinking age is 18, three years earlier than in the US. Despite the difference in legal drinking age, the age of first use (and associated problems) is the same between the two countries.
Instead, the authors stressed the need for early intervention, by identifying markers and thresholds of risky drinking behaviour at an early stage, while individuals are in vulnerable stages of brain development.
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Bullion traders across the country are one step ahead of the Indian government. Even as the government was pondering a proposal to hike customs duty on the import of gold this month, gold imports soared by 15% to 75 tonnes in January.
Though the government did go ahead and ultimately raise duties by 50% from 4% to 6% on January 21, bullion traders cornered most of the precious metal in the first three weeks of the month in anticipation of the hike in customs duty.
* At least seven of 18 committee members own guns * Senator Leahy was champion marksman in college * Senator Sessions has about a dozen firearms By Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON, Jan 30 (Reuters) - Republican Senator Lindsey Graham keeps an AR-15 at home, a semi-automatic rifle similar to the weapon used recently in the mass shooting at a Newtown, Connecticut, school. But he is far from the only U.S. lawmaker who has a gun. At least seven of the 18 members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which is considering gun-control legislation, own firearms, according to senators and their staffs. Among bills before the committee is a proposal to ban the manufacture of firearms like the AR-15. Four members of the panel do not own firearms, while spokesmen for the other seven declined to comment or did not respond to queries. Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, a Vermont Democrat, was a champion marksman in college and has a sizeable collection of long guns and handguns. The panel's senior Republican, Chuck Grassley, was given an old 22-caliber rifle by his father that he keeps on his farm in Iowa, aides said. Graham, a member of the U.S. Air Force Reserves, is the only member of the panel who has acknowledged having an AR-15, a lightweight civilian version of the military M-16 rifle. Most of the weapons characterized as "assault weapons" are variants of the AR-15, said Adam Winkler, a law professor at University of California-Los Angeles and author of "Gunfight: The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in America." "I have an AR-15 at home and I haven't hurt anybody and I don't intend to do it," Graham declared on Wednesday at a Judiciary Committee hearing. It was the first to deal with gun violence since a gunman last month killed 26 people at a Newtown elementary school, including 20 children. Graham opposes reinstating a ban on assault weapons. The conservative South Carolina Republican did not explain why he had the weapon, but said such a gun could be useful for protection if lawlessness or rioting broke out in his neighborhood. "I think I would be better off protecting my business or my family if there was law-and-order breakdown in my community, people roaming around my neighborhood, to have the AR-15, and I don't think that makes me an unreasonable person," Graham said. The Bushmaster rifle, which police have said was the weapon used in the Newtown shootings, is often referred to as an AR-15, although it is not manufactured by ArmaLite, the original maker of the AR-15, Winkler said. "AR-15 has become shorthand for this style of rifle. Gun enthusiasts don't like the term 'assault weapon,' so AR-15 has become the shorthand," Winkler said. Some AR-15-type weapons were barred by the assault weapons ban that was U.S. law for a decade until it expired in 2004, but others were not, Winkler said. Legislation proposed by Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein would ban the manufacture of AR-15s along with other semi-automatic rifles that can accept a detachable magazine and have at least one military feature like a pistol grip. It excludes weapons that are already legally owned, so if it passed, Graham could keep his gun. That is not the only gun Graham owns. As a hunter and outdoorsman, he owns about a dozen firearms, his spokesman said. Another Southern Republican on the Judiciary Committee, Jeff Sessions of Alabama, has a similar number. "I haven't hunted in years, but I have through inheritance and other things, probably a dozen shotguns and stuff," Sessions told Reuters in a Capitol hallway earlier this month.
CLAY-PIGEON SHOOTING "I've got an old lever-action rifle my grandfather had, and the shotguns that my father had and my uncles had for some reason have fallen to me," Sessions said. Republican Senators John Cornyn of Texas and Orrin Hatch of Utah are also gun owners, and a Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, Sheldon Whitehouse, said he had some shotguns. "I've been taking my kids clay-pigeon shooting since they were very little. And I'm proud to say that my daughter actually shot for her college skeet and trap team," Whitehouse, who is from Rhode Island, told Reuters outside the Senate last week. He said he did not think that would affect his decision-making on gun legislation in the Judiciary Committee. "I think our focus is going to be in particular ... these high-capacity magazines, which have really no legitimate sporting or target practice, recreational use," Whitehouse said. As for Feinstein, she said used to have a gun in the 1970s, when she was a target of a militant group called the New World Liberation Front. "They shot out windows at my beach house, and they put a bomb at my home in San Francisco," Feinstein told Reuters. "That's when I carried a permitted concealed weapon for a period of time." But Feinstein said it was in a holster in her purse and she thought she would probably not be able to get to it in time if she needed it. "And then I began to see really how little these guns are used for self-defense," she said. "I haven't had one for decades." Even if lawmakers own guns legally at home, it is apparently not so easy to bring them into the Capitol complex. Graham said he had wanted to bring various unloaded firearms to the hearing in a Senate office building on Wednesday for "education" purposes. But he was told he had to follow protocol. "The requirements to secure the weapons at the hearing are so impractical as to be unworkable," Graham said in a statement. Back in 2007, an aide to former Virginia Senator Jim Webb was arrested for trying to take a loaded pistol into a Senate office building. (Reporting By Susan Cornwell; Editing by Marilyn W. Thompson and Peter Cooney)
AMSTERDAM (AP) -- Royal Dutch Shell PLC says fourth quarter net profit was $6.67 billion, a rise from $6.50 billion in the same period a year ago, as its refining operations returned to profit.
At the company's production division, earnings were $4.38 billion, falling from $5.1 billion a year earlier. Shell blamed the decline on higher costs and exploration expenses. Production increased by 3.3 percent to 3.41 million barrels of oil or natural gas equivalents per day, as increases at young projects in Qatar and Australia offset declines at existing fields.
The company's refining arm booked a profit of $1.2 billion, compared with a loss of $278 million, as both intake and margins improved.
Shell said Thursday it had net gains on asset sales of $1.7 billion, compared with $1.6 billion.
Political evolutions are commonplace. The liberal college student becomes a conservative adult. The conservative adult grows more liberal on gay rights. The French orator Francois Guizot said of the anti-monarchists of his day "Not to be a republican at 20 is proof of want of heart; to be one at 30 is proof of want of head". It?s a quote that?s been reworked a gazillion times since. It?s one dear to the heart of neoconservatives many of whom began as devotees of Trotsky and ended up embracing Reagan.
There are conversions that we may not like--Arianna Huffington from right to left or Norman Podhoretz from left to right--but which are considered and understandable. And then there are conversions that seem harder to fathom. See the cover of Newsweek where the much lauded playwright, author and producer David Mamet challenges gun control.
There are any number of coherent, intellectual and constitutional arguments to be made against the president?s proposals to limit magazine size and ban certain types of weapons as well as to expand the background check program. ?Mamet foregoes any reasonable argument for a piece that likens Obama to Marx and his proposals to totalitarianism. ?For it is, again, only the Marxists who assert that the government, which is to say the busy, corrupted, and hypocritical fools most elected officials are (have you ever had lunch with one?) should regulate gun ownership based on its assessment of needs.? ?Apparently the Marxists now include Joe Scarborough and Joe Manchin, if not Reagan and the Bushes.
Anyone who?s listened to Michael Savage, the talk radio host, is familiar with the zealotry of the convert. His Savage Nation program is among the most popular in the conservative talk show firmament and his conversion from San Francisco liberal to conservative provocateur ?is well known to his listeners. His incendiary rhetoric, though, has led even conservative broadcasters to distance themselves from him. Fox News contributor Bernard Goldman cited him as one of the ?people who are screwing up America.? He?s been lambasted for remarks about gays, muslims and even autism: ??Now, the illness du jour is autism. You know what autism is? I'll tell you what autism is. In 99 percent of the cases, it's a brat who hasn't been told to cut the act out. That's what autism is. What do you mean they scream and they're silent? They don't have a father around to tell them, ? ?Don't act like a moron. You'll get nowhere in life. Stop acting like a putz. Straighten up. Act like a man. Don't sit there crying and screaming, idiot.? ? Savage has a Ph.D. in nutritional ethnomedicine so he should know.
I couldn?t help think of Savage and Mamet when I read that ?Max Kampelman died this week at 92. If you were involved in politics and policy in Washington in the last quarter of the 20th century you?ve probably heard of Kampelman. Otherwise, it?s less likely. Born to Jewish immigrant parents, he was a longtime aide to Hubert Humphrey during the 1940s, 50s and 60s. An accomplished attorney whose name was on the smoked glass at the great firm Fried, Frank, he was asked by Jimmy Carter to be lead the talks to bring the Soviet Union and some of its satellites into compliance with the Helsinki human rights accords. This seems almost quaint now but the talks in Madrid, where he led the American delegation, were an important diplomatic forum for confronting the Soviets, one of the major avenues for cataloguing and confronting their abuse of liberty. Like Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Kampelman was an eloquent and fearless voice for human rights.
President Reagan asked Kampelman to lead arms control talks with the Soviets that led to the START agreements cutting nuclear weapons. In his later years, he was a staple of international affairs and human rights organizations like Freedom House and the U.S. Institute of Peace, a lawyer diplomat of the likes of John J. McCloy or James Baker. He was a hawk with ties to neoconservative groups like the Committee on the Present Danger but he was a flexible one, willing to adapt to changing times. In 2007, he joined Sam Nunn and George Shultz in their efforts to rid the world of nuclear weapons. His tone was civil and courtly. Richard Sauber, once a partner at Fried Frank and and who Kampelman tapped to offer legal advice to Freedom House remembers one particularly heated board meeting where Kampelman had the patience of Job. ?The board was filled with a who's who of foreign policy, and Max was like an adult among children: the most reasonable person with exquisite judgment.? (For the record, Sauber is my attorney, too.)
The interesting thing about Kampelman that relates to Mamet and Savage is that he had a political conversion. He began as a conscientious objector, so much so that he had a deferment not during Vietnam or Korea but during World War II-- the Good War, the one that helped save the Jewish people from extermination. As part of his ?CO? status, he went to the University of Minnesota where he participated in tests where he was voluntarily subjected to near starvation. And it?s in Minnesota where he found a job with Minneapolis Mayor Hubert Humphrey that Kampelman?s pacifism faded and he came to see the merits of a strong defense--a position that echoed that of Humphrey himself and the Democrats of a bygone era like the late Henry ?Scoop? Jackson, the Senator from Washington and leading voice for what was called guns and butter.
Presidents of both parties understood Kampelman?s greatness. Carter brought him in and Reagan kept him even though Kampelman had helped the 1984 Mondale campaign. Bill Clinton gave Kampelman the presidential medal of freedom even though he was Reagan?s negotiator. They saw in him a steady hand and a reasonable mind. For the rest, of us he?s a role model on how to manage our own political evolutions. Evolving from pacifist to hawk is about as big a pendulum swing as can be imagined but Kampelman did it in a way that made him beloved. See a bipartisan tribute to him here when he was awarded the 2008 Democracy Service Medal by the National Endowment for Democracy.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Dieters who ate early lunches tended to lose more weight than those who had their midday meal on the later side, in a new Spanish study.
The finding doesn't prove bumping up your lunch hour will help you shed those extra pounds. But it's possible eating times play a role in how the body regulates its weight, researchers said.
"We should now seriously start to consider the timing of food - not just what we eat, but also when we eat," said study co-author Frank Scheer, from Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston.
His team's research included 420 people attending nutrition clinics in southeast Spain. Along with going to regular group therapy sessions with nutrition and exercise counseling, dieters measured, weighed and recorded their food and reported on their daily physical activity.
Study participants were on a Mediterranean diet, in which about 40 percent of each day's calories are consumed at lunch. About half of people said they ate lunch before 3:00 p.m. and half after.
Over 20 weeks of counseling, early and late lunchers ate a similar amount of food, based on their food journals, and burned a similar amount of calories through daily activities.
However, early eaters lost an average of 22 pounds - just over 11 percent of their starting weight - and late eaters dropped 17 pounds, or nine percent of their initial weight.
What time dieters ate breakfast or dinner wasn't linked to their ultimate weight loss, according to findings published Tuesday in the International Journal of Obesity.
One limitation of the study is that the researchers didn't assign people randomly to eat early or late - so it's possible there were other underlying differences between dieters with different mealtimes. Certain gene variants that have been linked to obesity were more common in late lunchers, for example.
OVERDOING IT AT DINNER?
Dr. Yunsheng Ma, a nutrition researcher from the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, said people who eat later may have extra food in their stomach when they go to sleep - which could mean more of it isn't burned and ends up being stored as fat.
"One of the other aspects to this is, what we know is glucose tolerance for example - how well you can deal with sugar in your food - your body is better able to cope with that in the morning than in the evening," Scheer told Reuters Health.
How often people eat during the day and whether they bring food from home or eat out may also contribute to weight loss, added Ma, who wasn't involved in the new research.
He said any implications of late eating could be exacerbated among Americans.
"The pattern of consumption of meals is very different in the U.S.," and problematic, Ma told Reuters Health. Many people skip breakfast or lunch - then end up overdoing it on calories at dinner.
Scheer said in the U.S., where dinner is typically the biggest meal, researchers would expect people who eat later dinners to have more trouble losing weight based on his team's findings.
Regardless of exact meal times, Ma said it's important for people to spread their calories out throughout the day.
"Have a good breakfast and a good lunch, and at dinner, people should eat lightly," he advised.
SOURCE: http://bit.ly/aCKLXR International Journal of Obesity, online January 29, 2013.
NEW ORLEANS -- Jim Harbaugh, known as a fierce competitor, saw the bright side of comments President Obama made recently about the risks of playing football.
In a recent interview with The New Republic, the president said, "If I had a son, I'd have to think long and hard before I let him play football."
When asked to comment on the president's statement, Harbaugh took an unexpected and humorous turn.
"Well, I have a 4-month-old, soon-to-be-5-month-old son, Jack Harbaugh," the 49ers coach said Monday. "If President Obama feels that way, then there will be a little less competition for Jack Harbaugh for when he gets old enough. That's the first thing that jumps in my mind if other parents are thinking that way.
"It's still early. Jack, like I said, is only five months old. But he's a really big kid. He's got an enormous head. . . As soon as he grows into that head, he's going to be something. It's early, but expectations are high for young Jack."
WASHINGTON (AP) ? The White House is praising an agreement on immigration reform reached by senators from both parties, calling it an important first step.
Details about the Senate plan are still sketchy, but White House spokesman Jay Carney says it embodies the same principles President Barack Obama believes are necessary.
A bipartisan group of leading senators is announcing their plan Monday for a sweeping overhaul, including a path to citizenship for about 11 million illegal immigrants. The plan also includes border security, a guest worker system and employer verification.
Obama will travel on Tuesday to Nevada to lay out his vision, which is expected to overlap with the Senate effort.
Research by US Forest Service scientists forecasts profound changes over the next 50 years in the summer range of the endangered Indiana bat. In an articlepublished in the journalEcology and Evolution, Forest Service Southern Research Station researchers Susan Loeb and Eric Winters discuss the findings of one of the first studies designed to forecast the responses of a temperate zone bat species to climate change.
The researchers modeled the current maternity distribution of Indiana bats and then modeled future distributions based on four different climate change scenarios. "We found that due to projected changes in temperature, the most suitable summer range for Indiana bats would decline and become concentrated in the northeastern United States and the Appalachian Mountains," says SRS research ecologist Loeb. "The western part of the range (Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio)?currently considered the heart of Indiana bat maternity range?would become unsuitable under most climates that we modeled. This has important implications for managers in the Northeast and the Appalachian Mountains as these areas will most likely serve as climatic refuges for these animals when other parts of the range become too warm."
In general, bat species in temperate zones such as Indiana bats may be more sensitive than many other groups of mammals to climate change because their reproductive cycles, hibernation patterns, and migration are closely tied to temperature. Indiana bat populations were in decline for decades due to multiple factors, including the destruction of winter hibernation sites and loss of summer maternity habitat.
Due to conservation efforts, researchers saw an increase in Indiana bat populations in 2000 to 2005, but with the onset of white-nose syndrome populations are declining again, with the number of Indiana bats reported hibernating in the northeastern United States down by 72 percent in 2011. The study predicts even more declines due to temperature rises from climate change, with much of the western portion of the current range forecast to be unsuitable for maternity habitat by 2060.
"Our model suggests that once average summer (May through August) maximum temperatures reach 27.4?C (81.3?F), the climatic suitability of the area for Indiana bat maternity colonies declines," says Loeb. "Once they reach 29.9?C (85.8?F), the area is forecast to become completely unsuitable. Initially, Indiana bat maternity colonies may respond to warming temperatures by choosing roosts that have more shade than the roosts that they currently use. Eventually, it is likely that they will have to find more suitable climates."
The models the researchers produced provide resource managers guidance on areas that are likely to contain maternity colonies now and in the future, depending on the availability of suitable habitat in those areas. "Managers in the western parts of the range should be aware of the potential changes in summer distributions due to climate change and not assume that declines are due to habitat loss or degradation," says Loeb. "Management actions that foster high reproductive success and survival will be critical for the conservation and recovery of the species."
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After months of stoking anticipation and dealing with criticism, RIM will finally reveal BlackBerry 10 to the world on Wednesday. It's got to be a heady moment for everyone involved -- this is the company's big shot at redemption and relevance -- but until then the rest of us will just have to make do with another batch of leaked BB10 hardware photos.
When it comes to good customer service, it seems like now more than ever, every business across every single industry is re-focusing on it, and prioritizing customer service ahead of all other issues.
That makes sense, of course, as businesses are under the gun now more than ever when it comes to dealing with and interacting with customers.
But with an increased focus on customer service generally across almost any industry, how can you be sure to get the most out of your customer service issues, and build your reputation as a company and brand that cares about winning the customer over with amazing service and support? Here are just a few ways to win the customer ? every single time ? and be sure that your business is a leader when it comes to customer service across the board.
Use Social Media To Win The Customer Over
When it comes to winning the customer, social media can be your biggest asset. Social media accounts allow customers to complain or praise about companies who have served them recently, but it?s all a two-way street. That is, you can also reach out back to the customer to find out how you can best help and serve them, and what you can do to improve their experience top to bottom when it comes to winning them over and proving your mettle to them.
Social media allows you to create an amazing customer service profile that can help build your business reputation, win over customers and potential clients, and expand your services top to bottom as you make a name for yourself in any industry or niche.
Make Yourself One-For-One With Each Customer
When it comes to truly winning over every single customer, issues start and end with seeing each customer as a person and a human, first and foremost, and as a customer with profit on the mind second (if at all). The best way to win the customer is to see them and their issue in front of you as the only issue that matters to you and your business; doing so provides the opportunity to better deal with them and their needs each and every day, regardless of what may come up.
Plus, when you see each customer as your only issue and problem, it makes it more likely that you will see each customer as the only customer you need to focus on and work with, increasing the chances you have of adequately and positively assisting and improving their issue or condition. This, in turn, makes your business the go-to company in your niche when it comes to dealing with and providing service for a wide variety of customers.
Prioritize what you do for your customers
Remember, winning the customer means focusing specially on each customer, one at a time, to ensure that you and they get the most out of your relationship and transaction, and that you can build relationships to develop a long-lasting customer and loyal client base to keep returning to you for years to come!
Testing should continue for a day or more, probing for life in the Antarctic depths
Testing should continue for a day or more, probing for life in the Antarctic depths
By Janet Raloff
Web edition: January 28, 2013
Research teams from Russia, the United Kingdom and United States have each spearheaded drilling efforts over the past few years to pierce and sample separate subglacial Antarctic lakes. Russian scientists reported last year piercing into Lake Vostok but has so far turned up no identifiable life. Those researchers are now working to analyze a new sample of ice recently retrieved from that drill project. Last month, the British team suspended its efforts for this summer season (which ends next month) to reach Lake Ellsworth.
The just-completed borehole into Lake Whillans ?marks the first successful retrieval of clean whole samples from an Antarctic subglacial lake,? the U.S. team reported today. ?Water and sediment samples returned to the surface are now being processed to answer seminal questions related to the structure and function of subglacial microbial life, climate history, and contemporary ice sheet dynamics.?
A research team led by Frank Rack, of the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, recently developed and field-tested the novel hot-water drill used to cut through the roughly half-mile-deep sheet of ice to reach Lake Whillans. ?Over the whole Antarctic continent, there are more than 340 [subglacial] lakes,? he notes. ?We selected this one because we know that it goes up and down, which means that the water underneath the ice sheet is periodically filling up the lake, then draining out again.?
Researchers have monitored this cycle through a rise and fall of the surface of that portion of the ice sheet covering the lake. Each cycle can last up to a decade, Rack says.
A video camera and series of sampling instruments will be periodically lowered down the borehole in the day or two available before this portal begins freezing shut again. ?Lake Whillans has already presented surprises,? according to Doug Fox, a reporter embedded with the drill research team, which is camped out less than 400 miles from the South Pole. ?For one, the lake has turned out to be only five or six feet deep ? shallower than the 20 to 30 feet that people expected based on seismic measurements,? Fox reported in a blog on the Discover website.
When I met with the Lake Whillans research team, last month, they planned to begin analyses of retrieved water and sediment within minutes of it reaching the surface. A series of mobile research labs were recently hauled to the Lake Whillans drill site. At least one lab will be used to study the chemistry of the water. Another will focus on probing for signs of microbial life ? chiefly bacteria and viruses.
According to Space.com, Iranian state media claims that Iran has sent a monkey in a suborbital flight on board a capsule called Pishgam, which is Farsi for "pioneer." The monkey's flight is said to be a prelude for manned space flights.
Monkey flight said to be a second attempt
Space.com reports that Iran had claimed to have attempted to put a monkey into space aboard its Kavoshgar-5 rocket in 2011, which suffered an undisclosed failure. Iran launched its first satellite in 2009. In 2010 it used a Kavoshhar-3 to fly a rat, two turtles, and a worm into space. It has launched Earth observation satellites in 2011 and 2012. According to ABC News and the Associated Press, Iranian media claims that the Pishgam reached a height of 75 miles before returning successfully to Earth.
Pishgam flight to be prelude to an Iranian manned space program
Space.com suggests that the flight of the Pishgam containing a monkey is the prelude for a manned Iranian space program, with an ambitious schedule of the first Iranian in space in 2020 and a lunar landing in 2025. The Iranian Space Agency claimed that the first Iranian manned orbital flight would be "below a 200 kilometer orbit." The same report claimed that Iran has already embarked on developing a homegrown space suit and space capsule for that purpose.
International reaction to Iranian space efforts
International reaction to the reported flight of an Iranian monkey ranges from disdain -- Space.com reports that the first American monkey flew in a suborbital flight in 1948 -- to concern of the implications surrounding Iran's nuclear program. Al Arabiya, while pointing out that a suborbital flight is far less challenging that putting a monkey or a human into orbit and returning him safely, also reports that western analysts are concerned about the juxtaposition between Iran's space program and its nuclear program. The same rocket that can put a payload into orbit can deliver a nuclear warhead anywhere in the world.
Al Arabiya also points out that Iran is pursuing its space ambitions in the face of crippling economic sanctions caused by international concern over its nuclear bomb program. The price of food in Iran is spiraling higher while the value of Iranian currency is plummeting and unemployment is soaring.
Reasons for Iranian space efforts
Besides the obvious relation with Iran's nuclear bomb program, Al Arabiya suggests that Iran is pursuing a space program to enhance its prestige. The idea is that if it can launch things into space while economic sanctions are taking place, Iran can claim to its own people that its Islamic system is superior in some fashion to that of the West as a distraction from Iran's economic and political woes. However, similar behavior by the Soviet Union did not prevent that country's collapse at the beginning of the 1990s.
Mark R. Whittington is the author of Children of Apollo and The Last Moonwalker. He has written on space subjects for a variety of periodicals, including The Houston Chronicle, The Washington Post, USA Today, the L.A. Times, and The Weekly Standard.
TLC’s “My Strange Addiction” features a woman named Lisa from Detroit that admits she is addicted to eating her cat’s fur, even licking it off her pet’s body directly! The 43-year-old said she eats at least three hairballs a day, enjoying the soft texture in her mouth. Please note the video may cause gagging. Lisa ...
Jan. 27, 2013 ? Rice University scientists have taken an important step toward the creation of two-dimensional electronics with a process to make patterns in atom-thick layers that combine a conductor and an insulator.
The materials at play -- graphene and hexagonal boron nitride -- have been merged into sheets and built into a variety of patterns at nanoscale dimensions.
Rice introduced a technique to stitch the identically structured materials together nearly three years ago. Since then, the idea has received a lot of attention from researchers interested in the prospect of building 2-D, atomic-layer circuits, said Rice materials scientist Pulickel Ajayan. He is one of the authors of the new work that appears this week in Nature Nanotechnology. In particular, Ajayan noted that Cornell University scientists reported an advance late last year on the art of making atomic-layer heterostructures through sequential growth schemes.
This week's contribution by Rice offers manufacturers the possibility of shrinking electronic devices into even smaller packages. While Rice's technical capabilities limited features to a resolution of about 100 nanometers, the only real limits are those defined by modern lithographic techniques, according to the researchers. (A nanometer is one-billionth of a meter.)
"It should be possible to make fully functional devices with circuits 30, even 20 nanometers wide, all in two dimensions," said Rice researcher Jun Lou, a co-author of the new paper. That would make circuits on about the same scale as in current semiconductor fabrication, he said.
Graphene has been touted as a wonder material since its discovery in the last decade. Even at one atom thick, the hexagonal array of carbon atoms has proven its potential as a fascinating electronic material. But to build a working device, conductors alone will not do. Graphene-based electronics require similar, compatible 2-D materials for other components, and researchers have found hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) works nicely as an insulator.
H-BN looks like graphene, with the same chicken-wire atomic array. The earlier work at Rice showed that merging graphene and h-BN via chemical vapor deposition (CVD) created sheets with pools of the two that afforded some control of the material's electronic properties. Ajayan said at the time that the creation offered "a great playground for materials scientists."
He has since concluded that the area of two-dimensional materials beyond graphene "has grown significantly and will play out as one of the key exciting materials in the near future."
His prediction bears fruit in the new work, in which finely detailed patterns of graphene are laced into gaps created in sheets of h-BN. Combs, bars, concentric rings and even microscopic Rice Owls were laid down through a lithographic process. The interface between elements, seen clearly in scanning transmission electron microscope images taken at Oak Ridge National Laboratories, shows a razor-sharp transition from graphene to h-BN along a subnanometer line.
"This is not a simple quilt," Lou said. "It's very precisely engineered. We can control the domain sizes and the domain shapes, both of which are necessary to make electronic devices."
The new technique also began with CVD. Lead author Zheng Liu, a Rice research scientist, and his colleagues first laid down a sheet of h-BN. Laser-cut photoresistant masks were placed over the h-BN, and exposed material was etched away with argon gas. (A focused ion beam system was later used to create even finer patterns, down to 100-nanometer resolution, without masks.) After the masks were washed away, graphene was grown via CVD in the open spaces, where it bonded edge-to-edge with the h-BN. The hybrid layer could then be picked up and placed on any substrate.
While there's much work ahead to characterize the atomic bonds where graphene and h-BN domains meet and to analyze potential defects along the boundaries, Liu's electrical measurements proved the components' qualities remain intact.
"One important thing Zheng showed is that even by doing all kinds of growth, then etching, then regrowth, the intrinsic properties of these two materials are not affected," Lou said. "Insulators stay insulators; they're not doped by the carbon. And the graphene still looks very good. That's important, because we want to be sure what we're growing is exactly what we want."
Liu said the next step is to place a third element, a semiconductor, into the 2-D fabric. "We're trying very hard to integrate this into the platform," he said. "If we can do that, we can build truly integrated in-plane devices." That would give new options to manufacturers toying with the idea of flexible electronics, he said.
"The contribution of this paper is to demonstrate the general process," Lou added. "It's robust, it's repeatable and it creates materials with very nice properties and with dimensions that are at the limit of what is possible."
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Completely updated and revised throughout, the fourth edition of Principles of Computer Hardware explores the fundamentals of computer structure, architecture, and programming.
The book opens with an introduction to the fundamental concepts behind computer architecture: gates, circuits, logic, and computer arithmetic. It goes on to discuss computer operation from instruction set architecture and assembly language programming to the central processing unit. Then, the text builds on these foundations; explaining how the hardware interfaces with its surroundings, introducing computer memory, operating systems, and computer peripherals.
With clear, concise explanations throughout, Principles of Computer Hardware, Fourth Edition, is ideal for undergraduate courses in computer architecture.
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? In theory at least, our generation has more money than other generations and more time to enjoy it. But maybe that doesn?t apply to everybody. If that?s the case with you, then you might want to read what Ron Whitaker writes about Cheap Travel Destinations for Budget-Minded Boomers.
It?s a New Year!
Ron Whitaker
A time for everyone ? baby boomers don?t get a pass ? to stick to resolutions, to reflect, and to start thinking about some exotic, far-off destinations for your vacation this year.
So, where will it be in 2013? Paris? Rome? London? Sri Lanka?
Hold on a minute! What if you?re like so many boomers these days who need to keep a close watch on the budget? Are you condemned to a boring ?staycation? this year?
Not so fast!
Believe it or not, there are some cheap travel destinations right here in the good ol? U.S.A. that you can visit and enjoy while keeping to your budget.
Here are three of them. Once you?ve finished whetting your appetite on these cities, check out the infographic that?s printed with this article for seven more cities you might want to put on your 2013 travel bucket list.
El Paso, Texas
C?mon?Texas? Really??
Absolutely!
For boomers who might be seeking a low-key, out-of-the-way cheap traveldestination, El Paso just might be your place.
It lies in the western part of Texas, and is a good distance from the bright lights, the hustle and bustle of the larger cities of Texas like Dallas or San Antonio.
While in El Paso, you?ll want to visit the El Paso Museum of Art and see some American works from the 19th and 20th Centuries. You can also see Mexican colonial art from the 1700s and 1800s.
And if you?re a Mexican-food lover, then El Paso is your city! Many restaurants serve authentic Mexican food, as well as that famous Texas barbecue you?ve heard about.
And if you?re a boomer who enjoys wine, El Paso won?t disappoint. With over 300 sunny days each year, this part of Texas has many fine vineyards. While visiting, make sure to check out La Vina Winery and Zin Valle Vineyards along historic Highway 28.
Spokane River
Spokane, Washington
If the Southwest doesn?t fit your style, how about the Northwest?
Spokane, once a busy center for fur trading, is the largest city in eastern Washington.
If you?re into outdoor activities, Spokane is definitely a cheap travel destination that offers a lot of bang for the buck!
In preparing this post, I spoke with Gina Mauro Campbell, Director of Visitor Services at the Spokane Visitors Bureau.
We discussed some great events and activities, at incredibly reasonableprices, that will interest the boomer traveler.
Gina discussed the incredible golfing opportunities that abound around Spokane. People come from all over the U.S. to take advantage of the 30+ golf courses in the area. And the great surprise (to me, at least!) was that all City and County courses are less than $30 for a full round! So grab those clubs and head to the great Northwest!
If golf isn?t your activity of choice, check out the stunning gardens throughout Spokane. Spokane?s forefathers purposefully set aside large portions of land throughout the community specifically to remain as gardens.
One well-known garden is Manito Park. Manito Park contains rose, Japanese, and French gardens, along with a conservatory filled with exotic plants year-round. And best of all, there?s no charge. Just be sure to bring your camera!
For the cyclist, check out South Hill, a stunning residential area offering eight miles of single- and double-track riding.
After a day enjoying the outdoors, catch a performance of the Spokane Symphony, or check out a show at the Opera House, or even a play at the Civic Theater.
And if all the outdoor activities around Spokane aren?t enough, take I-90 a half hour east to Coeur d?Alene, Idaho, another pristine outdoor paradise that won?t disappoint!
South Bend, Indiana
University of Notre Dame Library.
Don?t laugh! South Bend is a fantastic travel destination you can visit on the cheap!
One of the most famous universities on the planet? Notre Dame? makes its home in South Bend, and is a huge tourist destination.
And if? a big IF? you can get tickets during the season, enjoy a Saturday afternoon cheering the Fighting Irish football team.
If you?re a more refined tourist and football just isn?t your thing, then check out some of the beautiful works of art located on campus, along with the Basilica of the Sacred Heart and the Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes.
What boomer doesn?t remember the Studebaker? Well, for the car enthusiast, take a fun tour of the Studebaker National Museum, then head over to the South Bend Chocolate Company and try some of their famous truffles and fudge!
The U.S.A. is about a lot more than New York and Hollywood!
The labor market is not doing well and the unemployment rate is hovering around 7.8%. In such a scenario, the recovery in the housing market could, to some extent, calm the jittery economy by improving job prospects, primarily in the construction industry.
When the housing market crashed it left many jobless, but now with new construction activities and home prices showing signs of improvement, optimism prevails.
The housing market is gradually making its way out of its dormant state, thus raising hopes for a better job market. According to the data released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the construction industry created 30,000 jobs in Dec 2012, including 13,000 related to construction of buildings, and 12,000 for residential specialty trade contractors.
The slump in the housing market did not spare home-improvement retailers, such as Lowe?s Companies Inc. (LOW - Analyst Report) and The Home Depot Inc. (HD - Analyst Report), which faced the brunt as homeowners refrained from spending on big remodeling projects. However, a rebound in the housing market would play a key role to instill confidence in these stocks. Other stocks to benefit include Fastenal Company (FAST - Analyst Report), provider of industrial and construction supplies, and Lumber Liquidators Holdings, Inc. (LL - Snapshot Report), a retailer of hardwood flooring.
The sign of confidence is clearly reflected in the current hiring plans of Lowe?s. The company plans to employ 45,000 seasonal workforce and 9,000 permanent part-time staff in the wake of the resurging housing market that could trigger demand for remodeling works. The metric, ?Leading Indicator of Remodeling Activity? released by Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University, indicates that the spending on home improvement activities could surge in 2013.
The data suggests that spending on home improvement-related projects will witness an increase of 10.6% in the first quarter of 2013, resulting in an annualized value of $127 billion, 16.8% in the second quarter, reaching an annualized value of $134.4 billion and 19.7% in the third quarter to reach $145.5 billion. Consequently, we can expect increased hiring from home-improvement retailers to better meet the rising demand.
The elevation in home prices and the lowest mortgage rates is triggering construction activities. If the resurrection in the construction industry sustains, it will usher in good news for many job seekers.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - According to a new analysis, people taking high doses of the B vitamin folic acid are not at an increased risk of cancer - easing some concern about possible side effects of national fortification programs.
The U.S. and Canada have required flour to be fortified with folic acid since 1998, after deficiencies in pregnant women were tied to brain and spinal cord birth defects in their babies.
However, researchers noted, fortification is not mandatory in Western Europe, for example, in part because of concern that extra folic acid might slightly increase people's risk of cancer due to its role in cell growth. Cells, including cancer cells, need folate - the natural form of folic acid - to grow and divide.
"Overall, this is good news," said nutrition researcher Joshua Miller from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
However, he noted, there are enough questions about the long-term effects of folic acid that people should still "be a little cautious" about loading up on the vitamin.
For the new analysis, a team of international researchers combined data from 13 separate trials that randomly assigned participants to daily folic acid or a vitamin-free placebo and recorded who went on to develop cancer.
The studies included a total of close to 50,000 volunteers who were followed for just over five years, on average.
During that time, 7.7 percent of people in the folic acid groups and 7.3 percent in the placebo groups were diagnosed with any kind of cancer - a difference that could have been due to chance, the researchers noted in The Lancet.
Likewise, there was no increased risk of individual cancers - including colon, prostate, lung or breast cancer - attributed to folic acid.
Most trials used daily doses of folic acid between 0.5 and 5 milligrams. In the one study that used a much larger dose - 40 mg daily - there was still no difference in cancer diagnoses between people who were and weren't taking the vitamin.
The total daily amount of folic acid delivered through flour fortification is less than 0.5 mg per day for most Americans.
Folic acid is also naturally found in spinach, asparagus, lettuce and other greens. The recommended upper daily limit is 1.0 mg.
"The conclusion you can make from this is that over a relatively short period of time, there was no significant benefit or harm," said Dr. John Baron from the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth in Lebanon, New Hampshire, who worked on the review.
Most cancers take 10 to 20 years to develop, he told Reuters Health. So it's hard to tell from shorter studies if there really is no folic acid-cancer link or if the researchers didn't follow people for long enough to see an association, whether positive or negative.
The possible effect of folic acid on cancer risk has been controversial, in part because of the complex biology behind it, said Miller, who co-wrote a commentary published with the new study.
"It has this dual nature, where extra folic acid could actually prevent cancers from developing in the first place, (but) once cancer is formed, then they're like any other proliferating cells - they need folate to do that," he told Reuters Health.
The researchers agreed this study shouldn't be the last word on the potential side effects of folic acid.
For now, Miller added, people might want to avoid piling supplements on top of multivitamins and fortified food.
"People should realize if they're eating breakfast cereals and bread and pastas, they're getting a good amount of folic acid in food," he said.
"I think they should try not to exceed the upper limit."
SOURCE: http://bit.ly/Wz5GxC The Lancet, online January 25, 2013.
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-Right click in the instrument area. -Select "Save All Samples as..." You will get a dialog to define your first location, once set, it won't ask you any more (unless you click the browse button). -Either pick wav or flac and then click save.
If an instrument has samples, it will save them into a folder named after the instrument.
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V1.1 is available... Decided to also use the idle notifier. (Renoise was quite often nagging the script turn unresponsive) The status bar now shows some form of progress while exporting.
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perhaps can you add the fact that once the sample are save the window will be close.
Done, plus a few cleanup stuff added as well. Download from the tools page or update through the tool updater.
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