Thursday, October 20, 2011

Bomb near Baghdad liquor store kills 7 people (AP)

BAGHDAD ? A bomb blast near a Baghdad liquor store Monday evening killed seven people and injured another 18, Iraqi medical and police officials said.

Three of the dead and five of the injured were police officers, the officials said.

The information came from police in eastern Baghdad and the hospital where the dead and injured were taken.

It was not immediately clear whether the liquor store was the target or the police officers. Police and Iraqi security officials are often targeted by Sunni militants trying to undermine the country's fragile security. Conservative Shiite militant groups have sometimes targeted liquor stores and cafes.

Later in an eastern Baghdad neighborhood, a roadside bomb exploded near a police patrol, killing one civilian and wounding another four people, said hospital and police officials.

All the officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to reporters.

Security has improved dramatically in Iraq since the black days of the 2006 and 2007, when death squads roamed the streets and as many as 100 bodies a day would turn up at the morgues. But attacks such as Monday evening's still happen regularly.

With all U.S. troops leaving Iraq by the end of this year, Iraqi security forces will be responsible for maintaining security in the country on their own. They face serious challenges, including a continuing insurgency, little ability to protect their own airspace and lingering sectarian tensions.

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Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Samsung Galaxy W revisits the FCC, is this T-Mobile's 'Ancora'?

Samsung's Galaxy W has already made its requisite FCC debut, brandishing radios fit for AT&T. Now another variant's cropped up in the Commission's electronic database, this time bearing the model number SGH-T679M and AWS bands. That's right, this looks to be the same Sammy handset, dubbed the Ancora, we spied earlier this month in that leaked T-Mobile roadmap. If the release date rumors prove true, you'll be seeing this low-end, 4G Android device and it's purported 1.4GHz processor up for sale early next month. Until then, you'll have to make due with the multitude of titillating frequency tests at the source link below.

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Heart failure hospital stays fall, saving billions

In this Aug. 25, 2011 photo, registered nurse Mary Schlitter, left, speaks to heart patient Maria Marure, with the help of medical interpreter Marina Moreno at Our Lady of the Resurrection Medical Center in Chicago. A study has shown that hospital stays for heart failure fell a remarkable 30 percent in Medicare patients over a decade. Next year, the nation?s new health law begins punishing hospitals with high readmission rates for heart failure by shrinking Medicare payments. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

In this Aug. 25, 2011 photo, registered nurse Mary Schlitter, left, speaks to heart patient Maria Marure, with the help of medical interpreter Marina Moreno at Our Lady of the Resurrection Medical Center in Chicago. A study has shown that hospital stays for heart failure fell a remarkable 30 percent in Medicare patients over a decade. Next year, the nation?s new health law begins punishing hospitals with high readmission rates for heart failure by shrinking Medicare payments. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

(AP) ? Hospital stays for heart failure fell a remarkable 30 percent in Medicare patients over a decade, the first such decline in the United States and forceful evidence that the nation is making headway in reducing the billion-dollar burden of a common condition.

But the study of 55 million patients, the largest ever on heart failure trends, found only a slight decline in deaths within a year of leaving the hospital, and progress lagged for black men.

"While heart failure hospitalizations have decreased nationally overall, certain populations haven't seen the full benefit of that decrease," said lead author Dr. Jersey Chen of Yale University School of Medicine.

Possible explanations for the decline in hospital stays abound, including healthier hearts, better control of risk factors like high blood pressure, and more patients treated in emergency rooms and clinics without being admitted to hospitals, said Dr. Mariell Jessup, medical director of the Penn Heart and Vascular Center in Philadelphia.

"I think it's extraordinary news," said Jessup, who wasn't involved in the new research. "Many efforts at changing the natural history of this disease seem to be having an effect, especially with the hospitalization rate. But it's still a very problematic disease."

More than 5 million Americans and 22 million people globally have heart failure. Their hearts strain to pump blood because of damage, often from a heart attack or from high blood pressure. Fluid backing up into the lungs can leave people struggling to breathe.

Heart disease contributes to heart failure. Last week, federal health officials reported that the prevalence of self-reported heart disease in the U.S. decreased from nearly 7 percent to 6 percent from 2006 to 2010.

Fewer hospital stays saves Medicare a lot of money because heart failure is the most common cause of hospitalization in older patients.

From 1998 to 2008, the rate fell from 2,845 hospitalizations per 100,000 Medicare beneficiaries to 2,007 per 100,000, according to research appearing in Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical Association.

If the rate had remained the same, there would have been 229,000 more heart failure hospital stays in 2008 at an additional cost to Medicare of $4.1 billion, Chen said.

Other reasons for declining hospital stays may include specialized pacemakers and better use of medications such as ACE inhibitors that relax blood vessels, diuretics that prevent fluid buildup, digoxin that boosts heartbeat strength and beta blockers that ease strain on the heart.

Shortness of breath sent heart failure patient Maria Marure to several Chicago hospitals this year. In August, the 56-year-old spent a week at Our Lady of the Resurrection Medical Center, where leaders are focused on keeping heart failure patients healthy once they're home and avoiding readmissions. Next year, the nation's new health law begins punishing hospitals with high readmission rates for heart failure by shrinking Medicare payments.

The Chicago hospital made sure Marure had a medical interpreter to translate a nurse's instructions into Spanish and convey her questions. Marure said it was the first time she understood her heart failure and why it was important for her to watch her weight ? which can signal excess fluid. The hospital sent her home with a scale, made sure she had home care and a nurse called her periodically.

Even with all that, in less than three weeks, Marure was struggling to breathe again. A doctor sent her to a different hospital, where she was admitted for four days.

That patient's experience illustrates why heart failure is still a challenge, despite the new findings ? as does the one-year death rate found in the study. The proportion of patients who died within a year after being discharged fell, but only slightly, from about 32 percent to about 30 percent during the decade.

"The death rate is still unacceptably high," said Dr. Mihai Gheorghiade of Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. Hospitals need to aggressively treat heart failure patients' other ailments and immediately schedule follow-up care after discharge, said Gheorghiade, who wrote an accompanying editorial in the journal.

"It is a sign of hope. However, we are far from achieving our goals," he said.

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Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Sea levels to continue to rise for 500 years? Long-term climate calculations suggest so

ScienceDaily (Oct. 17, 2011) ? Rising sea levels in the coming centuries is perhaps one of the most catastrophic consequences of rising temperatures. Massive economic costs, social consequences and forced migrations could result from global warming. But how frightening of times are we facing? Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute are part of a team that has calculated the long-term outlook for rising sea levels in relation to the emission of greenhouse gases and pollution of the atmosphere using climate models.

The results have been published in the scientific journal Global and Planetary Change.

"Based on the current situation we have projected changes in sea level 500 years into the future. We are not looking at what is happening with the climate, but are focusing exclusively on sea levels," explains Aslak Grinsted, a researcher at the Centre for Ice and Climate, the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen.

Model based on actual measurements

He has developed a model in collaboration with researchers from England and China that is based on what happens with the emission of greenhouse gases and aerosols and the pollution of the atmosphere. Their model has been adjusted backwards to the actual measurements and was then used to predict the outlook for rising sea levels.

The research group has made calculations for four scenarios: a pessimistic one, an optimistic one, and two more realistic ones.

In the pessimistic scenario, emissions continue to increase. This will mean that sea levels will rise 1.1 meters by the year 2100 and will have risen 5.5 meters by the year 2500.

Even in the most optimistic scenario, which requires extremely dramatic climate change goals, major technological advances and strong international cooperation to stop emitting greenhouse gases and polluting the atmosphere, the sea would continue to rise. By the year 2100 it will have risen by 60 cm and by the year 2500 the rise in sea level will be 1.8 meters.

For the two more realistic scenarios, calculated based on the emissions and pollution stabilizing, the results show that there will be a sea level rise of about 75 cm by the year 2100 and that by the year 2500 the sea will have risen by 2 meters.

Rising sea levels for centuries

"In the 20th century sea has risen by an average of 2mm per year, but it is accelerating and over the last decades the rise in sea level has gone approximately 70% faster. Even if we stabilize the concentrations in the atmosphere and stop emitting greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, we can see that the rise in sea level will continue to accelerate for several centuries because of the sea and ice caps long reaction time. So it would be 2-400 years before we returned to the 20th century level of a 2 mm rise per year," says Aslak Grinsted.

He points out that even though long-term calculations are subject to uncertainties, the sea will continue to rise in the coming centuries and it will most likely rise by 75 cm by the year 2100 and by the year 2500 the sea will have risen by 2 meters.

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Monday, October 17, 2011

Facebook campaign heralding change in Bhutan?

For a sign of things to come with isolated Bhutan's young democracy, look no further than a draconian smoking law, some bar talk, and a Facebook page.

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For decades, Bhutan has been the world's most reclusive kingdom, with conservative villagers living under an absolute monarch. The introduction of parliamentary democracy in 2008 by the then-king was forced on many reluctant subjects who still look to the monarch as the final arbiter of justice.

But earlier this year Kinley Tshering, then a media consultant in the capital, Thimphu, discussed with friends over drinks the jailing of a Buddhist monk for three years for possessing $3 worth of tobacco, one of the first to be prosecuted under a new law banning public smoking.

More than 50 people have been jailed over the law, which allows police with sniffer dogs to raid homes in search of illegally imported tobacco and makes holding as much as a carton of 200 cigarettes a jailable offence.

Angry, Tshering decided to form a Facebook page, a digital protest unheard of in this Himalayan kingdom of 700,000 people wedged in between India and China.

Within months, the page had several thousand followers and was the talk of the town, signaling how a younger generation is embracing social media and democratic rights, confidently challenging an established order of elderly and mostly conservative leaders.

"Facebook was important. It opened the floodgates for open criticism of the government," said opposition leader Tshering Tobgay. "People feel the need to be more vocal. Only two years ago, criticism - constructive or not - was quite anonymous."

It is not just social media but traditional newspapers - the first private ones appeared in 2006 - that are becoming increasingly aggressive in probes into the government.

No one expects any revolution in Bhutan, where the king is revered. There is broad support for the kingdom's cautious embrace of globalization and its philosophy of Gross National Happiness (GNH), the idea that personal well-being and the environment are as important as GDP.

Alienated younger generation
But, tentatively, Bhutan is becoming a country where its first-ever democratic government - elected in 2008 - may have to increasingly take into account its people, especially its younger and modern, urban and wired generation.

For decades, criticism and grievances were aired among families and close friends.

"There are a lot of speeches about GNH. It sounds like we are doing a lot," said Tashi Choden, a senior researcher at the Centre for Bhutan Studies in Thimphu. "But there is a different reality on the ground. The youth are increasingly alienated. We could lose what we have if we are not careful."

The predominantly Buddhist Bhutanese are mindful of the fate of other Himalayan kingdoms: the monarchy in Nepal was abolished after a civil war, Sikkim was absorbed by India and Tibet by China.

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The marriage of King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck on Oct. 13 to a young student may cement the future of the popular monarchy that acts as the checks and balances on an unsure democracy, funneling grievances through the ancient rights of subjects to appeal to the king.

But there is far more skepticism about its elected leaders.

"The next election (in 2013) will be fascinating," said Francoise Pommaret, a French anthropologist and historian who has lived in Bhutan for three decades. "I have no idea what will happen, but there are profound social changes. Our leaders will have to listen to a new generation."

Bhutan's government faces a slew of challenges.

Most glaringly, there is a massive generation gap between an elderly conservative elite and young people who pose problems for the government that range from unemployment, urban gangs and drug abuse.

There is also a growing disparity in wealth. Bhutan is not one of the world's poorest countries - its GDP per head puts it in the league of lower middle-income nations - and yet more than a fifth of the population lives on less than $0.70 a day.

Increasing expectations of better lives are fed by television, which was only introduced to the country in 1999, as well as the ever-more-frequent sight of expensive land cruisers plying Bhutan's roads.

"Is there is one thing that keeps leaders awake at night, it's the growing disparity between the haves and have-nots," said one senior government official, who asked to remain anonymous.

Tide turning slowly
It is a change that goes to the far reaches of a kingdom roughly the size of Switzerland.

In the south, lower-caste villagers with historical Hindu roots are suing their upper-caste neighbors for discrimination, saying it is illegal under the new constitution. Pommaret calls it "a landmark in Bhutan's history".

In Thimphu, some 200 people carried out Bhutan's first-ever street protest in 2009 against the slow official reaction to the drowning of seven youngsters in a monsoon-swollen river.

A highway through a national park connecting eastern Bhutan with the central part of the country has sparked national debate on television, and protests to the prime minister.

The new taste for popular debate is not restricted to an urban, educated elite: village migrants studying in college towns are embracing Facebook. And the government is smoothing the way, setting up computer centers in many rural areas.

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Dupthob Tashiyangtse, a lawmaker from a remote rural region in the east, recounted how, after he was elected, villagers started making all kinds of demands including asking him to charge their mobile phones or pick up their groceries.

"When we campaigned we told them we were here to help them," Tashiyangtse said. "They took us literally. People are now coming forward. They are more demanding."

And everyone talks about the Facebook page.

"People are coming out," said Tshering, who is now managing editor of Business Bhutan, a newspaper that has spearheaded investigations into the government. "We were really surprised by the reaction, quite scared actually. We were unsure what the government would do."

In fact, the prime minister signed up on the Facebook page, a signal that the leaders of this country may see the tide cannot be turned.

But it is not without tension and fear.

Organizers say the street protest was photographed by plain clothes police. A normally assured prime minister angrily accused a newspaper of playing to foreign interests over an investigation into a state lottery scandal.

There is a long way to go. Many people are still reluctant to talk openly. Change will probably come hesitantly.

Asked is he had any more plans for protests, Tshering smiled, and said: "That was enough, for now."

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Haiti says "open for business" with new government (Reuters)

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) ? Haiti is "open for business" after its parliament approved a new government's ambitious plan to relaunch the economy after last year's catastrophic earthquake, Haitian leaders said on Saturday.

After an all-night session, the impoverished Caribbean country's Chamber of Deputies overwhelmingly endorsed the program of Prime Minister Garry Conille and his new cabinet.

The Senate already had approved the program, which foresees boosting economic growth in the Western Hemisphere's poorest state to more than 9 percent annually, from around 6 percent expected this year after the 2010 contraction inflicted by the crippling earthquake.

Hoping to attract foreign aid and investment in a tough international economic climate, Conille's government plans to modernize infrastructure and technology and establish urban and rural development zones and industrial manufacturing parks to create 1.5 million jobs in five years.

"This strategy aims to create thousands of jobs, causing a revolution of inclusive growth," Conille told the parliament, saying he would seek partnerships with the private sector in a program to reduce Haiti's widespread chronic poverty.

The new cabinet headed by Conille, 45, a doctor and U.N. development expert, will be sworn in on Tuesday.

Parliament's confirmation of Conille's cabinet and its policy blueprint will be a relief to foreign governments and donors who have been awaiting the installation of the new administration to tackle Haiti's huge reconstruction task following the January 12, 2010, earthquake.

Since President Michel Martelly took office in May vowing to "rebrand" Haiti from a development basket-case to a Caribbean success story, fractious lawmakers in parliament rejected his two previous picks for prime minister before Conille.

This raised fears among diplomats and donors that the same political squabbling and instability that have dogged Haiti for decades could torpedo Martelly's ability to steer the country's post-quake rebuilding.

On a visit to neighboring Dominican Republic on Saturday, Martelly, who won a presidential run-off in March, welcomed parliament's endorsement of the government and its program.

"This is a signal to the world that Haiti is really open for business and that Haitians can put their differences behind them to work for the common good and interest of the Haitian people," he told Reuters.

"If we had had a government earlier we could have done much more by now. It took time, but in the end it is better to take the time to do it right than do it fast but wrong," he added.

"NO FORCED EVICTIONS"

Martelly, a former pop star whose election followed a turbulent U.N.-backed vote process, has moved to draw a line under Haiti's frequently violent political past. He met former presidents this week to seek reconciliation.

But the aims of the Conille government program look ambitious for a small nation that is one of the planet's poorest despite being a mere two hours flying time from the richest power, the United States.

The CIA's "World Factbook" lists Haiti's estimated 2010 unemployment rate at 40.6 percent and notes more than two- thirds of the Haitian labor force do not have formal jobs.

The agency adds that 80 percent of Haiti's population live under the poverty line, with 54 percent in abject poverty.

In his speech to parliament, Conille also pledged to resettle the more than 600,000 homeless earthquake survivors still living in tent and tarpaulin camps in and around the quake-scarred capital of Port-au-Prince.

"By the end of President Martelly's five-year-term, the issue of the displaced people will have been solved. There will be no forced evictions without a predetermined alternative," the prime minister said, referring to evictions ordered by some landowners of some of the quake homeless camps.

Conille said his government would launch a national house-building program in a country where massive migration to the hilly capital had spawned sprawling shantytowns vulnerable to hurricanes, floods and mudslides.

The new government will be taking office as the United Nations is moving to reduce its peacekeeping force in the Caribbean state, because of what it says is an improved security situation.

(Writing by Pascal Fletcher; Editing by Vicki Allen)

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Sunday, October 16, 2011

Children, not chimps, choose collaboration

Thursday, October 13, 2011

When all else is equal, human children prefer to work together in solving a problem rather than on their own. Chimpanzees, on the other hand, show no such preference. That's according to a study of 3-year-old German kindergarteners and semi-free-ranging chimpanzees reported online on October 13 in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication.

"A preference to do things together instead of alone differentiates humans from one of our closely related primate cousins," said Daniel Haun of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. "Once we know the underlying motivations of this tendency, we will have learned something new about human nature that differentiates it from chimpanzee nature."

Human societies are built on collaboration, the researchers explained. From a young age, children will recognize the need for help, actively recruit collaborators, make agreements on how to proceed, and recognize the roles of their peers to ensure success. Chimpanzees are cooperative, too, working together in border patrols and group hunting, for instance. Still, the researchers thought humans might have greater motivation to cooperate than chimpanzees do.

"We expected differences between human and chimpanzee cooperation, because humans cooperate in a larger variety of contexts and in more complex forms than chimpanzees," Haun said.

Haun, along with Yvonne Rekers and Michael Tomasello, presented 3-year-old German children and chimpanzees living in a Congo Republic sanctuary with a task that they could perform on their own or with a partner. Specifically, they could either pull two ends of a rope themselves in order to get a food reward or they could pull one end while a companion pulled the other. The task was carefully controlled to ensure that there were no obvious incentives for the children or chimpanzees to choose one strategy over the other.

"In such a highly controlled situation, children showed a preference to cooperate; chimpanzees did not," Haun said.

The children cooperated more than 78 percent of the time, compared to about 58 percent for the chimpanzees. Those statistics showed that the children actively chose to work together, whereas chimps chose between their two options at random.

Haun says the findings suggest that behavioral differences between humans and other species might be rooted in apparently small motivational differences.

Future work should compare cooperative motivation across primate species in an effort to reconstruct the evolutionary history of the trait, the researchers say. "Especially interesting would be other cooperative-breeding primates or one of our other close phylogenetic relatives, the bonobos, which have both previously been argued to closely match some of the human prosocial motivations," they wrote.

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Saturday, October 15, 2011

Popular Nigeria comedian detained as drug suspect (AP)

LAGOS, Nigeria ? A popular Nigerian comedian was detained after an airport full-body scanner detected what investigators believe were drugs hidden inside his body, an official said Friday as investigators waited for the entertainer to excrete his stomach contents.

Comedian Baba Suwe, whose real name is Babatunde Omidina, remained held Friday by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency after investigators stopped him Wednesday night at Lagos' Murtala Muhammed International Airport before he could board a 10 p.m. Air France flight to Paris.

Agency spokesman Ofoyeju Mitchell said the scanner picked up a suspicious object inside his body.

Baba Suwe, 53, is a popular figure in Nigeria's Nollywood movies, often playing a befuddled butler or security guard for comic relief in his native Yoruba language. He is now at the agency's Lagos office where investigators and a doctor are waiting for him to excrete so they can analyze the results.

"I find it very difficult to believe that Baba Suwe would do that," said Jide Kosoko, ex-President of the National Association of Nigerian Theatre Arts Practitioners, to which Baba Suwe belongs.

Kosoko added: "Let's wait and see."

The Nigerian drug agency said Baba Suwe was traveling to France for a naming ceremony for a daughter of an Air France employee. The comedian was expected to host the event, the drug agency spokesman said.

An airline employee who was accompanying Baba Suwe when he was detained was also prevented from boarding the flight. However, the employee was not detained as a full-body scan did not reveal anything, the drug agency spokesman said.

A spokesman for Air France-KLM declined to immediately comment.

Nigeria is a major transit point for cocaine and heroin to Europe and the U.S. Baba Suwe's celebrity has made his arrest a high-profile case.

Actors and actresses in Nigeria's prolific low-budget film industry known as Nollywood have come a long way since the early 90s when the industry first emerged. Their earnings have grown significantly, as has their audience, which has grown worldwide.

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Clinton: US economic policy must look to Asia (AP)

NEW YORK ? It's time for the United States to look East and make sure economic concerns drive foreign policy, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will tell U.S. business leaders Friday.

Concerns about the rising power of China and the rest of Asia are clear in excerpts of a speech Clinton plans to give Friday morning in New York. The State Department released the excerpts Thursday evening.

As the U.S. pulls out of war in Iraq and brings troops back from Afghanistan, it must turn and focus on building the kind of cross-Pacific ties that the U.S. has had with Europe with decades, Clinton's speech says.

"Our great challenge is not facing down any single military foe, but upholding our global leadership at a time when power is more often measured and exercised in economic terms," the speech says.

China isn't mentioned by name in Clinton's excerpts, but it looms as the world's second largest economy and as a country that increasingly isn't shy about showing off its weapons as well as its wealth.

Clinton's speech takes aim at China in particular with her concerns about state control over growing wealth ? a reference to the ruling Communist Party's tight rein on key assets. For example, China last year startled world markets and governments by briefly putting controls on shipments of its rare earth elements, materials essential to high-tech products like cell phones, in a move apparently aimed at Japan during a heated diplomatic dispute. China accounts for 97 percent of world production of the metals.

"Governments are entering markets directly through their cash reserves, natural resources and businesses they own and control ? and they are shaping these markets not just for profit, but to build and exercise power," Clinton's speech says.

"Today we see hybrid companies masquerading as commercial actors, but actually controlled by states and acting with strategic consequences."

More broadly, the U.S. must approach foreign policy issues with the goal of improving the troubled economy at home and finding solutions to strategic problems elsewhere, her speech says.

"To succeed, the Arab political awakening must also be an economic awakening," it says.

Clinton will give the speech at The Economic Club of New York.

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Friday, October 14, 2011

Chicago O'Hare Ranked Most Dangerous U.S. Airport [LIST ...

To find the most dangerous airports, Travel + Leisure examined the 35 busiest airports in the U.S. using Federal Aviation?s Runway Safety Report for the last five years. Airports were then ranked based upon severity of collisions in a point system for an average year: 1 point per Category ?A? (serious collision barely avoided) or .5 points for Category ?B? (potential for collision).

In 2006, hundreds of passengers were saved by a pilot?s quick thinking aboard a United Airlines 737 when an Atlas Air 747 rolled directly in its path on the O?Hare tarmac. The pilot turned, sharply avoiding collision by only 120ft.This was just one of 75 incidents reported at Chicago O?Hare over a five year time period.

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O?Hare is now working on making the change to one of the safest airports. ?The runways at O?Hare will undergo a $ 6.6 billion modernization that plans to make the runways safer by 2014.

Ranking number two on this year?s list is Cleveland Hopkins, with 45 runway incidents. Cleveland Hopkins was given a score of 5.38, barely behind Chicago O?Hare (5.65). Cleveland has updated their runway recently with a large extension, which will stop planes from crossing over runways.

Los Angeles International (LAX) also found itself in the top three with 60 reported runway incidents and a score of 4.41. In both 2006 and 2007, planes nearly collided when arriving and departing jets crossed paths. The FAA now holds a program at LAX to better train pilots, air control, and tarmac vehicles on best procedures for runway safety.

Although runway accidents can be caused by anything from weather to animals on the tarmac, most often pilots are to be blame.

?Two-thirds of all runway incursions are caused by pilot deviation,? Wes Timmons, FAA?s recently retired director of runway safety, told Travel + Leisure.

Pilots of larger commercial jets are often not the offenders of deviation. Nearly 80% of accidents or near misses are caused by small private jets that are known to ignore air traffic instructions.

?Places where you have a lot of [pilot] training activity or a large number of flight schools tend to see a larger number of runway incidents,? Timmons told Travel + Leisure.

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The Ultimate Guide to Criminologist Colleges in Idaho

Idaho residents who are interested in pursuing careers in the criminology field will be happy to know that there is no shortage of wonderful educational opportunities in the state.

Whether a person wishes to pursue a career as a teacher of criminology at the high school or college level, as a researcher who conducts studies and/or writes scholarly articles, as a help to the police force, as a worker in the prison system, or in any one of the many vast career choices available in the field, there is an educational opportunity in Idaho that can make that possible.

Right now, online schools are quite popular in the state. Some students choose to receive their degrees entirely online, while others choose to attend programs that are a mix of both online and traditional schooling. Neither choice is ?better? than the other; it?s simply about finding what realistically works for you and your career goals.

Just make sure that if an online school is attended that it is fully accredited and legitimate. Receiving a ?degree? from an unaccredited school is really just receiving a very expensive and very useless piece of paper!

One very legitimate online school that is particularly popular among Idaho residents is the University of Phoenix, which offers an associate?s degree program in general criminal justice, bachelor?s degree programs in criminal justice administration and management and organization of security management, and a master?s degree program in administration of justice and security.

Of course, for many, traditional schooling at one of Idaho?s many fine community colleges and/or traditional colleges and universities is an excellent option. Popular schools and programs in the state include Boise State University, located of course in the capitol city of Boise, which has both a bachelor?s degree program and a master?s degree program in general criminal justice; Carrington College, also located in Boise, which has an associate?s degree program in paralegal studies.

the College of Southern Idaho, in Twin Falls, with its associate?s degree programs in law enforcement and criminal justice, as well as a certificate granting program in law enforcement; Eastern Idaho Technical College, in Idaho Falls, with an associate?s degree program in legal studies, as well as a technical certificate in the same.

Idaho State University, in Pocatello, with associate?s degree programs in paralegal studies, general criminal justice, female corrections, and law enforcement; ITT Technical institute, located in Boise, which has associate?s degree programs in paralegal studies and in criminal justice (offered online), as well as a bachelor?s degree in criminal justice.

Lewis Clark State College, in Lewiston, with associate?s degree programs in legal assisting and paralegal studies, as well as bachelor?s degree programs in the same and in corrections and human services and general criminal justice, and also technical certificates in law office technology and paralegal studies.

North Idaho College, located in Coeur d?Alene, which has associate?s degree programs in administration of justice, law enforcement, legal administrative assistant, paralegal studies, and general criminal justice, as well as a certificate in legal administrative assistant and a technical certificate program in law enforcement.

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Thursday, October 13, 2011

Cadillac unveils CUE infotainment system for connected driving excitement in 2012 (video)

Cadillac may be an unlikely exhibitor for a mobile conference, but it is using CTIA as an opportunity to unveil the Cadillac User Experience (CUE). CUE is its new car infotainment system that will debut next year, first in the XTS and later in the ATS, before spreading to the company's entire line. It combines an eight-inch capacitative multitouch LCD and haptic feedback with proximity sensors for a more rewarding user experience. Touch isn't the only input that Cadillac is quite proud of, as CUE also includes voice recognition technology from Nuance. This means users should be able to interact with their phone and car stereo without ever taking their eyes off the road.

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Remarkably, CUE has ties to the Linux Foundation and it is based on the namesake operating system. It's built on a tri-core ARM 11 CPU that simultaneously chews through 3D navigation maps and displays BluRay in the backseat with aplomb. Cadillac tells us that it has been working on this system for nearly two years, which supports Bluetooth 3.0, and also adds connectivity with two USB ports and an SD card slot. The folks at Caddy also hinted that more third-party apps will eventually be part of the story, but those details will be revealed further down the road. That said, the CUE already supports Pandora, Stitcher and provides an HTML5-based browser with full JavaScript support. The company also provided a video tour of its latest wonder, which you'll be able to see in greater detail after the break along with the press release.

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Microbes at Work ----Good Bugs Prevent Bad Diseases | Suite101.com

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Although it sounds ghastly, human beings who are made up of trillions of cells, are also swarming with trillions of microbes that help keep them well.

According to an article published in the Washington Post Newspaper on October 11th, humans don't travel this world alone. Instead they have millions of companions called microbes who attach themselves to every part of the human organism.

Invasive Microbes Make Up Most of Our Bodies

Microbes and other microorganisms are resting on our skin and in our ears, noses and throats.They take residence in our mouths and nestle in our intestines. Most people's reaction upon hearing this news would be to take a very hot shower. But before turning on the spigot--consider this:

Without these fellow travelers working in our system, we would be riddled with all manner of diseases.For example; the Staphylococcus aureus bacteria, which lives on the skin, helps to get rid of eczema.

Streptococcus mitis, which lives in the mouth helps prevent oral cancers. Helicobacter pylori, which lives in the gastrointestinal tract, regulates two hormones that work to control obesity.

Bacteriodes fragilis works to keep the immune system working and the bacterium lactobacillus keeps women's vaginal tracts safe from vaginosis.

Recent Research is Discovering Some Amazing Data

According to the Post article, research conducted by the five-year $175 million-- U.S. Human Microbiome Project, is pointing to some interesting findings.

One such finding scientists are looking at is the effect of Ceasarean section deliveries on newborns. These infants don't travel through the mother's birth canal where they would pick up the mother's microbes and bacteria. These bacteria often protect. their babies from diseases such as asthma or food allergies.Could this explain the rising incidence of those ailments in children?

Researchers are currently comparing the health of babies born through C--section versus those who are delivered through the birth canal.

Another interesting finding is the role of microbes and bacteria in keeping the immune system healthy. Hyperactive immune systems cause inflammation and pain. Microorganisms keep the inflammation in check. They help to fight against autoimmune diseases such as colitis and multiple sclerosis--both serious afflictions.

Another serious affliction these days is obesity-- especially childhood obesity. Here too,microbes play an important role in controlling weight. These tiny organisms help to control digestive hormones such as leptin and ghrelin. These hormones assist in regulating metabolism and to produce the sensations of being hungry or full.

The widespread use, however, of antibiotics administered to sick children and the addition of antibiotics to animal feed to fatten up cattle and to produce more tasty cuts of meat for human consumption has produced negative effects.

Because of these well--meaning measures, 'good' bacteria are being destroyed and the digestive hormones can't work as well.The result----childhood obesity.

Even the brain isn't exempt from those bugs who attach themselves to us. In recent experiments done by both Swedish researchers and by a Canadian-- Irish team, intestinal bacteria also appear to influence brain chemistry and in their absence such behaviors as anxiety and depression seem to surface.

When scientists manipulated gut microbiomes in mice, the mice displayed more anxiety and stress than when their microbiomes were left undisturbed. Could the lack of these organisms also play a factor in the prevalence of autism and hyperactivity?

These questions will continue to bug scientists for quite some time. For the moment, however, it seems we should continue to welcome our invisible guests or at least the beneficial ones.

Sources

The Washington Post: 'Good Bugs may be Key to Staying Healthy, Rob Stein, October 11, 2011

Microbe Magazine:' NIH Builds Substantial Human Microbiome Project,' October, 2009

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Probably the best advantage for kids that homeschool is the tie that happens with the mom and dad and kids. When kids are attending school, they begin to understand many approaches and viewpoints. Of course there are many factors that must be taken into account in any situation. However, on the whole, a student has a better chance to create a good self-esteem as they learn in a setting that is kind and uplifting. That is something the vast majority of people will never know in their lives. An offspring who is able to use that improvement into adulthood can mature without having to be subjected to low self-confidence or worth. The above mentioned are two Irreplaceable advantages because we see so many grownups without those attributes.

Of course, there is no question of the ultimate educational flexibility you have when teaching your kids at home. You have the flexibility of choosing which textbooks to use out of a wide variety available from a vast array of places. Parents can choose to add books that will enrich their child?s learning with in-depth studies of other areas as well. That alone can be an excellent benefit for any student. As an example, you might choose to focus more on a particular sub-topic within a main area of study, an approach that often produces a more rich learning environment that does deeper than any other. Almost every adult can remember how painful the intense levels of peer pressure from school. Due to various types of this social pressure, high school can be an incredible time for any child. There is a high amount of potentially negative influences outside the home. Obviously, all of that can be completely negated when the child is educated at home. At home, there are no destructive forms of criticism or assaults on a child?s self-esteem. Without the unhealthy influence of other children, this alone can allow any child room to grow and develop.

All people have areas of strengths and challenges, and the homeschool education can be the perfect setting to address each one. Homeschooling is defined as a customized approach to a child?s education offering an alternative to public education that best serves the child?s needs. Homeschooling obviously, offers more one on one attention when a child is struggling in a particular subject. This also allows children who excel in a subject to continue moving forward and developing further. No matter what the strengths or problem areas of a child might be, having a homeschool environment gives them the chance to develop in a healthy and supportive atmosphere. One of the best advantages of teaching your child at home is that you can take their individual talents into consideration. Parents are after all, the best ones to identify their child?s areas of strength, weakness and special talent. This is not something you will find in any other school except on rare occasions. Based on what their child needs, the parents are now able to create a workable curriculum for their child?s education needs.

For more information about homeschooling programs, resources, and aids to help you accomplishing your goals with educating from home, review the following topics here.

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Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Choosing the Best Replacement Windows for Your ... - My Ideal Home

Replacing your windows can offer a lot of advantages from increase your home?s value to making your home more energy efficient. This is why you should make sure that the replacement windows that you would end up purchasing would be able to provide you with the features that you are looking for. Here are a couple of tips for replacing house windows that should help you out.

1. Determine your budget. Replacement windows can vary greatly on their cost and can range from a few hundred to over a thousand dollars each. By knowing how much you can spend on replacing your windows, it would be easier for you to narrow down your options based on their cost.

2. Assess the number of windows that you need to replace. Make sure to check your entire home for any windows that need to be replaced. If you have the budget for it, it is best to replace all that need to be replaced to not just get the best price for them since many window manufacturers offer discounts for bulk purchases but also make sure that your entire home would be safer, better insulated and more energy efficient.

3. You should also consider the purpose that you have for your windows, as this would help you in deciding on which style or type of window you need to install. Some of the types that you can choose from based on their purpose would be casement windows, bay windows, awning windows, storm windows and basement windows.

4. When choosing which replacement windows to install, you also need to first decide if you would be doing the installation yourself or if you would be hiring a contractor to install them for you. This is because there are some replacement window types which are easy to install, regardless of your knowledge in windows and home improvement projects and there are those which require special equipment and knowledge so they can be installed. If you are planning to do the installation yourself, you can also choose to purchase window replacement kits instead of buying the windows and the other parts separately.

Through following this home window replacement guide, you should be able to get replacement windows which would make your home better insulated and a lot more functional and a lot more stylish without going over the budget you have.

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Tuesday, October 11, 2011

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Monday, October 10, 2011

Biologists use Sinatra-named fly to show how to see the blues -- and the greens

Monday, October 10, 2011

New York University biologists have identified a new mechanism for regulating color vision by studying a mutant fly named after Frank ('Ol Blue Eyes) Sinatra. Their findings, which appear in the journal Nature, focus on how the visual system functions in order to preserve the fidelity of color discrimination throughout the life of an organism. They also offer new insights into how genes controlling color detection are turned on and off.

Many biologists study how different cells develop to acquire their fate. The NYU research team, headed by Claude Desplan, a professor of biology, examined how they stay the same. Cells have complex functions that must be maintained through extensive coordination, and failure to do so could lead to "confused" cells whose function is not clear. This is particularly important for cells, such as neurons, which live for a long time?usually the entire lifetime of an animal.

The NYU researchers focused on the photoreceptor neurons in the retina of the fruit fly Drosophila. Drosophila is a powerful model for studying eye development as it is amenable to very precise genetic manipulations. This allows researchers to analyze how the visual system functions when its different elements are affected.

The work builds upon a previous finding from Desplan's laboratory. In a 2005 study, published in Cell, Desplan and his colleagues identified a molecular pathway by which one photoreceptor cell type controls its choice to be sensitive to one color of light vs. another?in this instance, green vs. blue. This sensitivity is due to the presence of light-sensing proteins, Rhodopsins: each photoreceptor makes a decision to express either blue light-sensitive Rhodopsin5 or green light-sensitive Rhodopsin6, but not both. This exclusive expression of different Rhodopsins underlies the fly's ability to discriminate colors.

In the Nature study, the researchers explored a phenomenon that occurs over the lifetime of an organism. Because Rhodopsins are continually produced in the eye, the researchers wanted to know what keeps each photoreceptor from starting to make the wrong Rhodopsin later in life. Their findings showed that, in fact, the Rhodopsin itself can prevent the gene encoding another Rhodopsin from turning on incorrectly.

The researchers observed that, in mutant flies that have a non-functioning Rhodopsin6 (green-sensitive) gene, the photoreceptors that would have normally produced this Rhodopsin instead slowly start to make the blue-sensitive Rhodopsin5. After two weeks, essentially all of these photoreceptors were observed making the blue Rhodopsin. The authors named one of the mutations in Rhodopsin6 gene "Frank Sinatra" because presumably it makes old eyes more sensitive to blue light?they don't actually become blue in color.

These findings showed, then, that in normal flies, green Rhodopsin6 maintains repression of the blue Rhodopsin5 gene. This result is surprising?previously, it had not been known that Rhodopsins could control how other Rhodopsins are made.

The neurons governing our sense of smell are organized in a similar fashion. Once each olfactory neuron, which is responsible for this sense, makes a functional olfactory receptor protein, that receptor can prevent other genes encoding different olfactory receptors from being turned on in the same cell.

While the researchers did not investigate what brings about this change in Rhodopsins, they think of this as a maintenance mechanism that prevents cells from having blue and green Rhodopsins together.

"The two types of photoreceptors could be connected to different neuronal circuits in the brain which interpret the information they receive from photoreceptors as being about blue or green light," noted Daniel Vasiliauskas, the leading author of the paper and a post-doctoral fellow at NYU. "Thus changing the Rhodopsin that a photoreceptor makes could lead to sensory confusion and reduce the fly's ability to tell apart different colors."

"An alternative possibility is that our findings point to a mechanism that allows a fly to adapt to changing circumstances," he added. "If we keep flies in the dark for extended periods of time, we start seeing the same thing happening: blue Rhodopsin5 is made in the green Rhodopsin6-producing photoreceptors, leading to cells that have both. This change could be associated with changes in the downstream circuits that must now adapt to correctly interpret the information they receive."

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Awnings and Home Improvement Blog ? What to Realize About ...

Time and time again I hear folks shopping for replacement windows in Los Angeles asking questions about whether or not white is the sole colour that replacement windows come in. And if you?ve ever looked round the neighborhood you will have spotted all the white frames installed into the window openings. This is your classic retrofit window style. However , if you?re among the folks that wished that replacement windows came in other colours, then you?ll want to continue reading.

First things first, yes, replacement windows do come in other colours besides white. In general it is either white or a tan variation (this can be mocha, coffee, beach sand). In both examples, these colors are inserted into the mixture of the frame. But recently, many window makers have begun to offer further colors to the standard ones.

Some window makers have started to supply a painted frame that will come in a range of colors, although most offer about 8 different colors. The most common colors are black, blue, red and green but dependent on what manufacturer we are talking about, they can come in a ton more.

The crucial thing to gain understanding about these painted frames is that unlike the white or tan variations, these coloured frames have been painted, which means that they are vulnerable to chipping and scratching. Most manufacturers offer a 10 year guarantee and some even offer touch up paint in case of damage during installation but do not go past that.

The reception to these new windows has been mixed with many customers commenting that they like the additional options though not the limited warranty. Candidly, these windows do look nice with this coating of painting but unless you?re completely sure that you want a particular colour you could be safer to just go with the tried and true and perhaps instead just paint your house.

Lou Garcia has sold replacement windows for over 7 years, window replacement los angeles, and has been asked every query conceivable. He likes to share data so that folk buying windows have the facts correct. If you would like to know masses more about replacement windows or doors you can visit: AdvanceWindowsandDoors.com


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