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Saturday, December 31, 2011
Debris scatters in the Pacific Ocean, possibly heading to US
ScienceDaily (Dec. 29, 2011) ? Debris from the tsunami that devastated Japan in March could reach the United States as early as this winter, according to predictions by NOAA scientists. However, they warn there is still a large amount of uncertainty over exactly what is still floating, where it's located, where it will go, and when it will arrive. Responders now have a challenging, if not impossible situation on their hands: How do you deal with debris that could now impact U.S. shores, but is difficult to find?
To learn more about the tsunami debris, NOAA researchers have been working with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and other partners to coordinate data collection activities.
NOAA and its partners are also coordinating an interagency assessment and response plan to address the wide-range of potential scenarios and threats posed by the debris.
"We're preparing for the best and worst case scenarios -- and everything in between," says Nancy Wallace, director for NOAA's Marine Debris Program.
As the tsunami surge receded, it washed much of what was in the coastal inundation zone into the ocean. Boats, pieces of smashed buildings, appliances, and plastic, metal, and rubber objects of all shapes and sizes washed into the water -- either sinking near the shore or floating out to sea. The refuse formed large debris fields captured by satellite imagery and aerial photos of the coastal waters.
The Japanese government estimated that the tsunami generated 25 million tons of rubble, but there is no clear understanding of exactly how much debris was swept into the water nor what remained afloat.
What remains of the debris?
Nine months later, debris fields are no longer visible. Winds and ocean currents scattered items in the massive North Pacific Ocean to the point where debris is no longer visible from satellite. Vessels regularly traveling the North Pacific have reported very few sightings. Only two pieces have been clearly linked to the tsunami.
NOAA is coordinating new interagency reporting and monitoring efforts that will provide critical information on the location of the marine debris generated by the tsunami. Ships can now report significant at-sea debris sightings and individuals or groups can request shoreline monitoring guides at DisasterDebris@noaa.gov.
Where is it?
Computer models run by NOAA and University of Hawaii researchers show some debris could pass near or wash ashore in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (in the Papah?naumoku?kea Marine National Monument) as early as this winter, approach the West Coast of the United States and Canada in 2013, and circle back to the main Hawaiian Islands in 2014 through 2016.
Researchers caution that models are only predictions based on location of debris when it went into the water, combined with historical ocean currents and wind speeds.
Conditions in the ocean constantly change, and items can sink, break down, and disperse across a huge area. Because it is not known what remains in the water column nor where, scientists can't determine with certainty if any debris will wash ashore.
Worst- and Best-case Scenarios
The worst-case scenario is boats and unmanageable concentrations of other heavy objects could wash ashore in sensitive areas, damage coral reefs, or interfere with navigation in Hawaii and along the U.S. West Coast. Best case? The debris will break up, disperse and eventually degrade, sparing coastal areas.
Debris will not go away completely, even in a best-case scenario. Marine debris is an ongoing problem for Hawaii and West Coast states, where garbage and other harmful items regularly wash up on beaches, reefs and other coastal areas.
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Oil price climbs to near $100 per barrel (AP)
Oil prices climbed near $100 per barrel Thursday on stronger jobs and housing data in the U.S.
Here's a breakdown of how energy prices traded:
On the New York Mercantile Exchange:
Crude: added 29 cents to $99.65 per barrel;
Gasoline: rose by 2.88 cents to $2.6801 per gallon;
Heating oil: increased by 2.41 cents to $2.9175 per gallon;
Natural gas: fell by 9.4 cents to $3.027 per 1,000 cubic feet.
On the ICE futures exchange:
Brent crude: rose by 45 cents to $108.01 per barrel.
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Friday, December 30, 2011
Former NFL Linebacker Chris Draft Inspires Thousands After Losing His Wife To Cancer
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It?s a modern day fairytale mixed with all the ingredients that make up one of the greatest love stories of 2011. In one day over 12,ooo people had been touched by the story of Chris and Keasha Draft
It wasn?t until after reading about the recent passing of Keasha Rutledge Draft, wife of former NFL Linebacker Chris Draft, that I realized that true love still exist. According to sources close to the couple, Keasha had been diagnosed with cancer yet Chris loved her throughout her illness and granted her wish to become his bride on November 27, 2011. Sadly, Keasha lost her fight with cancer on Tuesday December 27, 2011; ironically one month after marrying Chris.
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Church, mosque burglarized
A man was arrested Christmas Day after allegedly going on a crime spree burlgarizing several Brownsville buildings, including a church and a mosque, police said.
Leonardo Oscar Vela, 25, was arrested Sunday afternoon on two counts of criminal mischief and two counts of burlgarizing a building.
Sgt. Felix Sauceda of the Brownsville Police Department said Vela is suspected of breaking into a realty office on the 2800 block of Central Boulevard around noon. The burglar reportedly fled when an alarm went off, but officers found a broken window and a rock. A witness described Vela to the officers.
Shortly after, police received a call for a burglary at a mosque on Gilson Road, near where Vela lives. Witnesses reported that a man matching Vela?s description broke in and stole a jacket and metal safe.
One of the burlgary victims at the mosque told police the man fled to a nearby church on Old Highway 77.
Officers followed the trail and found Vela sitting outside the church with blood on his hand, Sauceda said.
?They proceeded to inspect the premises and found the front glass door shattered with blood on the glass as well,? Sauceda said.
Officers arrested Vela and booked him in the city jail late Sunday afternoon.
Sauceda said police often see a spike in crime during the holidays.
?The holidays are just one of the times of year with more opportunities to offend, so we do see an increase,? he said.
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Oil price falls as Saudis trump Iran threat
NEW YORK (AP) ? Oil prices fell on Wednesday, after Saudi Arabia said it will offset any loss of oil from a threatened Iranian blockade of a crucial tanker route in the Middle East.
The U.S. Navy warned that any disruption of traffic through the vital Strait of Hormuz "will not be tolerated."
In New York, benchmark crude fell $1.98, or about 2 percent, to finish at $99.36 a barrel.
Brent crude fell $1.71 to end at $107.56 a barrel in London.
On Tuesday Iran's vice president said that his country was ready to close the Strait of Hormuz ? a vital waterway through which a third of the world's tanker traffic flows ? if western nations embargo the country's oil because of Iran's ongoing nuclear program. The head of the country's navy added on Wednesday that his fleet can block the strait if need be. His comments came as Iran held a 10-day drill in international waters near the strategic route, which is 21 miles wide at its narrowest point.
A Saudi oil ministry official told The Associated Press that Saudi Arabia and other Gulf producers are ready to provide more oil if Iran tries to block the strait. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the issue. He didn't specify other routes that could be used to transport oil, although they would likely be longer and more expensive for getting crude to the region's customers.
"Anyone who threatens to disrupt freedom of navigation in an international strait is clearly outside the community of nations; any disruption will not be tolerated," said Lt. Rebecca Rebarich, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet, which is responsible for naval operations in the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea.
Some analysts think the Iranian threats are more rhetoric than reality. "We doubt political posturing will turn into action," energy consultant and trader Stephen Schork said in a report.
"Shutting down the strait ... is the last bullet that Iran has and therefore we have to express some doubt that they would do this and at the same time lose their support from China and Russia," said analyst Olivier Jakob of Petromatrix in Switzerland.
Iran is the fourth largest oil exporter in the world, according to the Energy Department. Most of its crude goes to Asia, with China its biggest customer. Oil provides half of Iran's revenue. Last year that amounted to about $73 billion.
Oil prices were also undercut on Wednesday by persistent worries about Europe and future demand for oil as the region's economy weakens. The European Central Bank said the continent's banks parked a record $590.72 billion overnight with the ECB, reflecting distrust in the European banking system.
In other energy futures trading, heating oil fell 2 cents to finish at $2.89 a gallon, gasoline fell 4 cents to end at $2.65 a gallon and natural gas fell 3 cents to finish the day at $3.08 per 1,000 cubic feet.
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AP writers Ali Akbar Dareini in Teheran, Tarek El-Tablawy in Cairo, Abdullah Shihri in Riyadh, Adam Schreck in Dubai and Pablo Gorondi in Budapest contributed to this report.
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Level 3 will provide IP capacity for the Central Valley Next Generation Broadband Infrastructure project, a $66.6 million total cost project that is being partly funded with $46.6 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). The project will bring advanced communications to rural, underserved areas by creating a 1,300 mile, high-capacity fiber-based infrastructure throughout 18 counties in California's Central Valley. Level 3 is providing over 300 route miles of fiber for the project.
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Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Quality of mother-toddler relationship linked to teen obesity
ScienceDaily (Dec. 26, 2011) ? The quality of the emotional relationship between a mother and her young child could affect the potential for that child to be obese during adolescence, a new study suggests.
Researchers analyzed national data detailing relationship characteristics between mothers and their children during their toddler years. The lower the quality of the relationship in terms of the child's emotional security and the mother's sensitivity, the higher the risk that a child would be obese at age 15 years, according to the analysis.
Among those toddlers who had the lowest-quality emotional relationships with their mothers, more than a quarter were obese as teens, compared to 13 percent of adolescents who had closer bonds with their mothers in their younger years.
The findings mirror previous research by these scientists that showed toddlers who did not have a secure emotional relationship with their parents were at increased risk for obesity by age 4 ?. This body of work suggests the areas of the brain that control emotions and stress responses, as well as appetite and energy balance, could be working together to influence the likelihood that a child will be obese.
Rather than blaming parents for childhood obesity, the researchers say these findings suggest that obesity prevention efforts should consider strategies to improve the mother-child bond and not focus exclusively on eating and exercise.
"It is possible that childhood obesity could be influenced by interventions that try to improve the emotional bonds between mothers and children rather than focusing only on children's food intake and activity," said Sarah Anderson, assistant professor of epidemiology at Ohio State University and lead author of the study.
"The sensitivity a mother displays in interacting with her child may be influenced by factors she can't necessarily control. Societally, we need to think about how we can support better-quality maternal-child relationships because that could have an impact on child health," she said.
The study appears online and is scheduled for publication in the January 2012 issue of the journal Pediatrics.
The researchers analyzed data from 977 participants in the Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development, a project of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. The sample in this national study included diverse families living in nine U.S. states whose children were born in 1991.
As part of that national study, trained observers assessed child attachment security and maternal sensitivity by documenting interactions between mothers and their children at three time points: when the children were 15, 24 and 36 months old.
In the maternal sensitivity assessment, mothers were instructed to play with their child while investigators rated several aspects of each mother's behavior, including supportiveness and respect for autonomy as well as signs of intrusiveness or hostility. Investigators rated attachment security of the children at age 15 and 36 months by monitoring a child's separation from and reunion with the mother. At 24 months, researchers assessed children's attachment security by observing mothers and children in their home.
Maternal sensitivity refers to a mother's ability to recognize her child's emotional state and respond with comfort, consistency and warmth. Psychologists describe securely attached children as those who rely on their parents as a "safe haven," which allows them to explore their environments freely, adapt easily to new people and be comforted in stressful situations. Toddlers who are insecurely attached tend to have experienced negative or unpredictable parenting, and may respond to stress with extreme anger, fear or anxiety, or avoid or refuse interactions with others.
Using these assessments of maternal sensitivity and child attachment security, Anderson and colleagues developed a maternal-child relationship quality score for their own statistical analysis. With a range of zero to six, the score served as an aggregate measure of a child's early relationship experience: Each point reflected a child's display of insecure attachment or a mother's ranking in the lowest quartile of sensitivity at one of the three assessment time points. The researchers designated a score equal to or greater than three as indicating a poor-quality emotional relationship.
The researchers calculated the body mass index (BMI) of the children using their heights and weights measured at or near age 15 years. BMIs were converted into percentiles for age and sex based on growth charts developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In accordance with current guidelines, children were considered obese if their BMI scores were at or above the 95th percentile on those charts.
A total of 241 children, or 24.7 percent, were classified as having a poor quality maternal-child relationship during early childhood based on a score of three or higher. The prevalence of obesity in adolescence was 26.1 percent among these children with the poorest early maternal-child relationships. The teen obesity prevalence was lower for children with better maternal relationships: 15.5 percent, 12.1 percent and 13 percent among those who had scores of two, one and zero, respectively.
Accounting for children's gender and birth weight -- two of several sociodemographic factors that also can influence the quality of the maternal-child relationship and risk for obesity -- children with the poorest quality early maternal-child relationship were almost 2 ? times as likely to be obese as adolescents than were children who had the best relationships with their mothers.
Anderson and colleagues suggest that this association between early childhood experiences and teen obesity has origins in the brain. The limbic system in the brain controls responses to stress as well as the sleep/wake cycle, hunger and thirst, and a variety of metabolic processes, mostly through the regulation of hormones.
"Sensitive parenting increases the likelihood that a child will have a secure pattern of attachment and develop a healthy response to stress," Anderson said. "A well-regulated stress response could in turn influence how well children sleep and whether they eat in response to emotional distress -- just two factors that affect the likelihood for obesity."
Obesity may be one manifestation of dysregulation in the functioning of the stress response system. Parents help children develop a healthy response to stress by protecting children from extreme levels of stress, responding supportively and consistently to normal levels of stress, and modeling behavioral responses to stress.
"The evidence here is supportive of the association between a poor-quality maternal-child relationship and an increased chance for adolescent obesity," Anderson said. "Interventions are effective in increasing maternal sensitivity and enhancing young children's ability to regulate their emotions, but the effect of these interventions on children's obesity risk is not known, and we think it would be worth investigating."
This research was supported by a grant from the National Institutes of Health.
o-authors included Ohio State College of Public Health Dean Stanley Lemeshow, and graduate student Rachel Gooze and Robert Whitaker, professor of public health and pediatrics, both at Temple University.
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The final item in the main Windows Firewall menu you need to know is the "Restore defaults" link on the left. It brings up the screen here, which turns the firewall back on with the default settings. If you've made changes to your firewall over time and don't like the way it's working, this puts everything right again.
The Windows Firewall is a powerful security tool, and one you should use at all times. If connected to the Internet, your computer could be compromised in minutes, or even less, if the firewall is disabled or otherwise turned off. If you get a warning that it's off, take immediate action -- and I do mean immediate -- to get it working again.
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Facebook?s Dresses up for IPO by Rolling Out More Ads
The decision by Facebook to put up advertisements on the news feed may act as a further deterrent to the social network?s users. [] As Facebook?s much hyped IPO approaches, the company has stepped on the gas to bolster its monetization; however this could come at the expense of aggravating users.?Facebook leads in the social networking space with competitors such as?Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) and is increasingly taking ad revenues away from struggling sites Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO) and AOL (NASDAQ:AOL).
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Facebook is not exactly facing a cash crunch. The company?s advertising revenues are already expected to double in 2011 from last year, reaching around $3.8 billion. [] Additionally, the company has also consistently expanded its revenue stream further by acting as a host site for various services such as music and games. It seems the company is in a rush to increase its monetization before its anticipated IPO, in order to achieve an even more lucrative valuation.
This prompts the question: Is putting further ads up on the news feed worth the risk?
The ?frictionless sharing? concept has already faced some backlash from users over the clutter it creates, and ads in the news feed could only worsen this problem. As of now, the company seems confident that loyal users will remain hooked to Facebook despite these initial concerns.
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Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Youth killed amid London sales shoppers
An 18-year-old man has been stabbed to death as thousands of bargain hunters thronged one of London's busiest shopping streets.
The 18-year-old from south London was killed in the Foot Locker store on Oxford Street as hundreds of thousands of people shopped nearby on the opening day of the post-Christmas sales.
Police said it was too early to establish what the motive for the stabbing was.
Ten arrests have been made and a crime scene has been set up.
A forensics team erected a white tent in front of Foot Locker, overlooked by Christmas lights.
Confused Boxing Day bargain hunters and tourists were coming up to the police cordon to take pictures and ask officers what had happened.
Shoppers could be seen going in and out of shops near the crime scene, but a number of stores were forced to close.
An employee at the nearby Disney Store said: 'We are being quite badly affected, we are unlikely to open again today.'
Police said they were called about 1.45pm (0045 AEDT on Tuesday) to reports of a stabbing.
London Air Ambulance and London Ambulance Service also attended but the man was pronounced dead at the scene.
A spokeswoman for the New West End Company, which represents local retail traders, declined to comment on the stabbing or the effect on retailers on one of the busiest shopping days of the year.
But earlier, the company reported STG15 million ($A23 million) sales in the first three hours of the Boxing Day sales despite a drivers' strike on the London Underground.
Jace Tyrrell of the New West End Company said: 'As ever, the West End's Boxing Day sales have attracted shoppers in their hundreds of thousands.'
Senior investigating officer Detective Chief Inspector Mark Dunne, from the Metropolitan Police's Homicide Command, later told reporters at the scene that the murder had taken place at the 'busiest place in the United Kingdom on the busiest shopping day'.
He said: 'A number of weapons have been recovered from that scene, whether I have got the murder weapon I don't know. There's an assortment of items but no guns.
'My officers and many other officers from the West End are looking to get as many witnesses as we possibly can and to get a full account of exactly why this happened.'
Dunne said it seemed that there had been a confrontation between two groups of youngsters and confirmed that 'a number of people' had been arrested.
'We are in the process of speaking to them and speaking to some witnesses who have already come forward.
'This is probably the busiest place in the United Kingdom right now on the busiest shopping day so it's been difficult for us to piece together what has happened and clear this area to do the job we are paid to do and work out a sequence of events here.
'The flipside of that is we have probably more witnesses than we would normally have and I'm very much looking forward to them coming and speaking to us.'
Police confirmed that another stabbing took place on Monday close to the junction of Oxford Street and Regent Street, but could not say at this stage whether it was linked to the Oxford Street incident.
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Football: Berbatov puts United joint top
December 26, 2011 -- Updated 1826 GMT (0226 HKT)
Dimitar Berbatov scores the second of his hat-trick as Manchester United thrashed Wigan 5-0.
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- Dimitar Berbatov scores a hat-trick as Manchester United thrash Wigan 5-0
- The result lifts United level with rivals Manchester City at the top of Premier League
- City lead on goal difference despite a 0-0 draw at West Bromwich Albion
- Chelsea and Liverpool are both held at home by teams in bottom half of table
(CNN) -- Bulgarian striker Dimitar Berbatov scored a hat-trick as Manchester United thrashed 10-man Wigan Athletic 5-0 at Old Trafford to draw level with rivals Manchester City at the top of the English Premier League.
City went into the traditional Boxing Day fixtures two points clear of champions United, but Roberto Mancini's side were held to a 0-0 draw at West Bromwich Albion.
That meant United's result puts the two sides level at the top on 45 points, with City keeping hold of their lead on goal difference.
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United had thrashed Fulham 5-0 in midweek and they always looked set for another big victory once Park Ji-Sung had converted Patrice Evra's eight-minute cross.
And Wigan's task was made even harder when Conor Sammon was sent off for catching Michael Carrick with a stray arm.
United took full advantage when Berbatov netted just before half-time and the same player added United's third goal from Antonio Valencia's 58th-minute pass.
Valencia himself made it 4-0 in the 75th minute and Berbatov completed his treble from the penalty spot after Antonin Alcaraz had tripped Park in the area.
Tottenham, who play Norwich on Tuesday, are 10 points behind the Manchester clubs in third place -- although they have two games in hand -- while Chelsea are a further point behind in fourth after being held to a 1-1 home draw by London neighbors Fulham.
Juan Mata put Chelsea ahead before half-time but the visitors leveled 11 minutes after the interval when Clint Dempsey tapped home Bryan Ruiz's pass.
Arsenal will play Wolverhampton on Tuesday, and they can move up to third place with a victory, while Liverpool are sixth, a massive 14 points off the top, after a disappointing 1-1 home draw with bottom club Blackburn.
The struggling visitors, without an away win all season, took the lead on the stroke of half time when Charlie Adam deflected a Morten Gamst Pedersen's corner into his own net.
But Liverpool equalized soon after the break through a Maxi Rodriguez header. However, Liverpool have now drawn six of their nine home matches, a run that is threatening their hopes of making the Champions League places.
They are just a point ahead of seventh-placed Newcastle, who returned to winning ways with a 2-0 win at second-bottom Bolton, who have now lost eight of their nine home matches this season.
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Sunday, December 25, 2011
OPEC to accommodate increased Libyan output (AP)
CAIRO ? There is a "gentlemen's agreement" between OPEC members to accommodate increasing output from Libya, the North African country's oil minister said Saturday.
The comments by Abdul-Rahman bin Yazzah indicate that while there is no formal deal among members of the 12-nation Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries to cut output, the producer group is willing to take the step as Libya's production ramps up to pre-civil war levels of 1.6 million barrels per day.
"If the situation calls for it, they will meet," bin Yazzah said, adding that the decision is dictated by supply and demand. But "there is a gentlemen's agreement to accommodate Libya's production," he told reporters after a meeting of the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries, or OAPEC, in Cairo on Saturday.
OPEC agreed Dec. 14 to raise its production ceiling to about 30 million barrels per day. The decision marked an increase from its earlier output target and was the first time it changed the ceiling in three years.
The producer bloc has grappled for years with noncompliance by member with their allotted quotas. The situation became further muddled over the past year as Libya's civil war ground production from that nation to a near standstill. To offset the drop, other OPEC members, most notably Saudi Arabia, stepped with additional barrels.
Libya is currently producing slightly more than 1 million barrels per day, the chairman of the National Oil Corp. Nouri Berruien said. The country expects to return to full production by mid -2012, he said ? much quicker than analysts had anticipated.
Aside from accommodating increased oil from Libya and Iraq, OPEC must also deal with an economic crunch in Europe where sovereign debt worries are squeezing growth forecasts and, in turn, dampening demand for oil.
If OPEC overproduced, or fails to curb its members' production to adjust for Libya's return to the market it could see prices fall below the $100 per barrel level favored by price hawks like Iran and Venezuela. Others like bloc kingpin Saudi Arabia favor prices between $80-85 per barrel.
The US benchmark crude futures contract on Friday settled at $99.68 per barrel in New York, while it's North Sea counterpart, Brent, settled at $107.96 a barrel in London.
Separately, Syria's oil minister said that international sanction had affected oil production in the country.
Sufian Allaw said that production was down by about 35 percent, reaching 255,000 barrels per day. Allaw said Syria was no longer exporting crude and that European oil companies like Shell and Total had halted their operations in the country because of EU sanctions.
"We have no ability to export now" because of the sanctions, he said.
The measures were imposed as Syria's government comes under tremendous criticism for its deadly approach to dealing with protesters demanding the end of President Bashar Assad's regime. The United Nations says more than 5,000 people have been killed since March, when the uprising began and the regime responded by deploying tanks and troops to crush protests across Syria.
Allaw said that current oil production effectively covered domestic refining capacity and that Syria still needed to import refined fuels.
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Kentuckiana Cancer Institute doctors agree to join Norton Healthcare
The addition of the oncologists? practice ?will expand the depth and reach of Norton Healthcare?s regional cancer care,? according to a news release from Louisville-based Norton Healthcare.
KCI has about 5,000 patients in Louisville and Southern Indiana who receive medical oncology, hematology and infusion services, the release said.
As a result of the agreement, those patients will have access to more services through the Norton Cancer Institute, according to the release.
?As the dialogue between both institutes evolved, we were excited about both the possibilities of working together to fight cancer and the remarkable synergies that result both in the patient care as well as the clinical research arenas,? Robert N. Shaw, president of Norton Cancer Institute, said in the release. ?We have long recognized the need for greater collaboration and increased access to comprehensive treatment throughout our community.
?This agreement better enables Norton Healthcare, Norton Cancer Institute and the physicians of KCI to help meet the needs of our community,? Shaw said in the release.
KCI has locations in downtown Louisville, northeast Louisville, La Grange and Bardstown in Kentucky and Corydon, Clarksville and New Albany in Southern Indiana.
KCI officials saw ?clear benefits in aligning ...
Kentuckiana Cancer Institute, a group of nine oncologists, has agreed to join the Norton Cancer Institute, a health care and research organization that is part of Norton Healthcare Inc.?
The addition of the oncologists? practice ?will expand the depth and reach of Norton Healthcare?s regional cancer care,? according to a news release from Louisville-based Norton Healthcare.
KCI has about 5,000 patients in Louisville and Southern Indiana who receive medical oncology, hematology and infusion services, the release said.
As a result of the agreement, those patients will have access to more services through the Norton Cancer Institute, according to the release.
?As the dialogue between both institutes evolved, we were excited about both the possibilities of working together to fight cancer and the remarkable synergies that result both in the patient care as well as the clinical research arenas,? Robert N. Shaw, president of Norton Cancer Institute, said in the release. ?We have long recognized the need for greater collaboration and increased access to comprehensive treatment throughout our community.
?This agreement better enables Norton Healthcare, Norton Cancer Institute and the physicians of KCI to help meet the needs of our community,? Shaw said in the release.
KCI has locations in downtown Louisville, northeast Louisville, La Grange and Bardstown in Kentucky and Corydon, Clarksville and New Albany in Southern Indiana.
KCI officials saw ?clear benefits in aligning with Norton Healthcare,? the release said.
?Norton Cancer Institute is a leading provider of cancer care in the region, with an expansive and comprehensive array of innovative treatment options,? Dr. Renato LaRocca, director of KCI, said in the release. ?This agreement will provide our patients with access to services and support programs, as well as expanded clinical trial options, that are ahead of the curve and will yield a measurable impact on oncology outcomes.?
Dr. Shawn Glisson, a KCI physician, described the partnership as a ?tremendous opportunity for KCI,? according to the release.
Glisson added that the alliance ?will lead to excellent outcomes and access to care for our patients and their families.?
The release said KCI patients will receive letters explaining the agreement with Norton Healthcare along with details noting where they should go for treatments and regularly scheduled appointments, the release said.
Patients with questions can call a transition line at (502) 588-9411 from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Norton Healthcare opened its $26.4 million, 65,000-square-foot Norton Cancer Institute facility in the downtown Louisville medical center in August.
The new facility has a $3.8 million linear accelerator that helps doctors target tumors while sparing the surrounding healthy tissue.
Norton has invested about $4.5 million in equipment for the new facility, according to a previous Business First report. Some equipment is the first of its kind in Kentucky.
The Norton Cancer Institute was financed by tax-exempt bond financing. The $75 million bond issue also reimbursed the health system for the construction of Kosair Childrens Medical Center ? Brownsboro, which opened in spring 2010, according to a previous Business First report.
In January 2007, Norton Healthcare announced plans to invest $100 million in cancer care over a five-year period.
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Friday, December 23, 2011
Study examines how diving marine mammals manage decompression
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Any diver returning from ocean depths knows about the hazard of decompression sickness (DCS) or "the bends." As the diver ascends and the ocean pressure decreases, gases that were absorbed by the body during the dive, come out of solution and, if the ascent is too rapid, can cause bubbles to form in the body. DCS causes many symptoms, and its effects may vary from joint pain and rashes to paralysis and death.
But how do marine mammals, whose very survival depends on regular diving, manage to avoid DCS? Do they, indeed, avoid it?
In April 2010, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's Marine Mammal Center (MMC) invited the world's experts in human diving and marine-mammal diving physiology to convene for a three-day workshop to discuss the issue of how marine mammals manage gas under pressure. Twenty-eight researchers discussed and debated the current state of knowledge on diving marine mammal gas kineticsthe rates of the change in the concentration of gases in their bodies.
The workshop resulted in a paper, "Deadly diving? Physiological and behavioural management of decompression stress in diving mammals," which was published Dec. 21, 2011, online in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
"Until recently the dogma was that marine mammals have anatomical and physiological and behavioral adaptations to make the bends not a problem," said MMC Director Michael Moore. "There is no evidence that marine mammals get the bends routinely, but a look at the most recent studies suggest that they are actively avoiding rather than simply not having issues with decompression."
Researchers began to question the conventional wisdom after examining beaked whales that had stranded on the Canary Islands in 2002. A necropsy of those animals turned up evidence of damage from gas bubbles. The animals had stranded after exposure to sonar from nearby naval exercises. This led scientists to think that diving marine mammals might deal with the presence of nitrogen bubbles more frequently than previously thought, and that the animals' response strategies might involve physiological trade-offs depending on situational variables. In other words, the animals likely manage their nitrogen load and probably have greater variation in their blood nitrogen levels than previously believed.
Because the animals spend so much time below the ocean's surface, understanding the behavior of diving marine mammals is quite challenging. The use of innovative technology is helping to advance the science. At WHOI, scientists have used a CT scanner to examine marine mammal cadavers at different pressures to better understand the behavior of gases in the lungs and "get some idea at what depth the anatomy is shut off from further pressure-kinetics issues," Moore said. For other studies, Moore and his colleagues were able to acquire a portable veterinary ultrasound unit to look at the presence or absence of gas in live, stranded dolphins.
There's still a lot to be learned, including whether live animals have circulating bubbles in their systems that they are managing. If they do, says Moore, noise impacts and other stressors that push the animal from a normal management situation to an abnormal situation become more of a concern. "When a human diver has some bubble issues, what will they do? They will either climb into a recompression chamber so that they can recompress and then come back more slowly, or they'll just grab another tank and go back down for a while and . . . and just let things sort themselves out. What does a dolphin do normally when it's surfaced? The next things to do is to dive, and the one place you can't do that is in shallow water or most particularly if you are beached."
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Public release date: 21-Dec-2011[ | E-mail |
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508-289-3340
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Any diver returning from ocean depths knows about the hazard of decompression sickness (DCS) or "the bends." As the diver ascends and the ocean pressure decreases, gases that were absorbed by the body during the dive, come out of solution and, if the ascent is too rapid, can cause bubbles to form in the body. DCS causes many symptoms, and its effects may vary from joint pain and rashes to paralysis and death.
But how do marine mammals, whose very survival depends on regular diving, manage to avoid DCS? Do they, indeed, avoid it?
In April 2010, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's Marine Mammal Center (MMC) invited the world's experts in human diving and marine-mammal diving physiology to convene for a three-day workshop to discuss the issue of how marine mammals manage gas under pressure. Twenty-eight researchers discussed and debated the current state of knowledge on diving marine mammal gas kineticsthe rates of the change in the concentration of gases in their bodies.
The workshop resulted in a paper, "Deadly diving? Physiological and behavioural management of decompression stress in diving mammals," which was published Dec. 21, 2011, online in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
"Until recently the dogma was that marine mammals have anatomical and physiological and behavioral adaptations to make the bends not a problem," said MMC Director Michael Moore. "There is no evidence that marine mammals get the bends routinely, but a look at the most recent studies suggest that they are actively avoiding rather than simply not having issues with decompression."
Researchers began to question the conventional wisdom after examining beaked whales that had stranded on the Canary Islands in 2002. A necropsy of those animals turned up evidence of damage from gas bubbles. The animals had stranded after exposure to sonar from nearby naval exercises. This led scientists to think that diving marine mammals might deal with the presence of nitrogen bubbles more frequently than previously thought, and that the animals' response strategies might involve physiological trade-offs depending on situational variables. In other words, the animals likely manage their nitrogen load and probably have greater variation in their blood nitrogen levels than previously believed.
Because the animals spend so much time below the ocean's surface, understanding the behavior of diving marine mammals is quite challenging. The use of innovative technology is helping to advance the science. At WHOI, scientists have used a CT scanner to examine marine mammal cadavers at different pressures to better understand the behavior of gases in the lungs and "get some idea at what depth the anatomy is shut off from further pressure-kinetics issues," Moore said. For other studies, Moore and his colleagues were able to acquire a portable veterinary ultrasound unit to look at the presence or absence of gas in live, stranded dolphins.
There's still a lot to be learned, including whether live animals have circulating bubbles in their systems that they are managing. If they do, says Moore, noise impacts and other stressors that push the animal from a normal management situation to an abnormal situation become more of a concern. "When a human diver has some bubble issues, what will they do? They will either climb into a recompression chamber so that they can recompress and then come back more slowly, or they'll just grab another tank and go back down for a while and . . . and just let things sort themselves out. What does a dolphin do normally when it's surfaced? The next things to do is to dive, and the one place you can't do that is in shallow water or most particularly if you are beached."
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The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is a private, independent, non-profit organization in Falmouth, Mass., dedicated to marine research, engineering, and higher education. Established in 1930 on a recommendation from the National Academy of Sciences, its primary mission is to understand the ocean and its interaction with the Earth as a whole, and to communicate a basic understanding of the ocean's role in the changing global environment.
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'Citizen Kane' Oscar sells for $861K
Orson Welles's Oscar for writing "Citizen Kane" ? regarded as one of the best films ever made ? sold for $861,542 on Tuesday as a hot market for Hollywood memorabilia helped erase memories of an unsuccessful auction four years ago.
The best screenplay statuette awarded in 1942 ? the only Oscar given to "Citizen Kane" ? failed to meet its undisclosed reserve price when it was last up for auction at Sotheby's New York in 2007. At that time it was expected to sell for around $1 million.
Although tarnished by age, the Oscar, sold by Los Angeles auction house Nate D. Saunders on behalf of its anonymous seller, carried a reserve price of between $600,000 and $1 million. Bids came in from around the world in what the auction house termed an "exciting" sale.
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"This is a testament to the popularity of Orson Welles and his magnum opus 'Citizen Kane,'" said Nate D. Saunders, owner of the auction house, in a statement.
The Oscar has a story worthy of a Hollywood movie in its own right. Welles had lost it, but it resurfaced after his 1985 death when it was put up for auction in 1994 by a cinematographer, who claimed Welles had given it to him as a form of payment.
Welles's daughter Beatrice sued and won back ownership of the statue, but she was sued in turn by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which gives out the awards, when she tried to auction it in 2003.
Story: Elizabeth Taylor's jewelry sells for $115 millionAfter a legal battle, Beatrice Welles was given the right to dispose of the Oscar. She sold it to a California non-profit organization called the Dax Foundation, who tried unsuccessfully to auction it in 2007.
In a bid to stop public sales, the Academy in 1950 introduced an agreement that banned winners from selling their Oscars to anyone but the Academy for the nominal sum of $1.
But several pre-1950s Oscars have gone under the hammer in recent years, including the best picture Oscar for the 1939 film "Gone with the Wind," which was sold for a record $1.54 million in 1999 to Michael Jackson.
Story: Rediscovered Beatles amp could fetch $100,000"Citizen Kane," a 1942 drama about the ruthless pursuit of power, which Welles also directed and starred in, regularly tops U.S. and British lists of the greatest film of all time.
In a sign of how heated the memorabilia market has become, auctions of Elizabeth Taylor's collection of jewels, gown, art and memorabilia broke records last week on their way to totaling more than $150 million worth of live and online sales, Christie's said on Monday.
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The BNAT13WOLF Twitter TV Spot for Joe Carnahan's hunk of badass man cinema called THE GREY appears!
Hey folks, Harry here... ? Yesterday, I get this text message from Joe Carnahan asking me if I'd like to premiere this 60second spot for his upcoming film, THE GREY, which blew folks' socks off at BUTT-NUMB-A-THON, 2 weeks ago. ? ?The spot quotes various Internet Bloggers, both AICN and not, that fell mancrush in love with THE GREY. ? This is a hardcore man versus nature work of cinema, that deals with the psychology, the desperation and the power that comes from an intense survival film. ? In a way, think of this like a really practical version of ALIENS. ? But instead of pure popcorn, it had a bit of that Kurosawa scripted soul from RUNAWAY TRAIN that?Andrey Konchalovskiy?directed and still hold my favorite Jon Voight performance. ? Here, it is Liam Neeson, who just transcends...
So, without further pomp - just let me tell you - SEE THIS MOVIE. ??
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