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Kevin Gosztola
The Dissenter 2013-01-23 17:52:00
Former CIA officer John Kiriakou, who blew the whistle on waterboarding and exposed how CIA torture was policy, was convicted of a classified leak for sharing the name of an officer involved in the rendition program with a reporter. He is set to be sentenced to jail for thirty months on Friday. Kiriakou appeared on an episode of "Citizen Radio" this morning. Interviewed by the show's co-host Allison Kilkenny, he revealed that his attorneys have a document showing that he clearly was the victim of a selective prosecution. "While I confirmed the name of one CIA officer involved in the torture regime," Kiriakou stated, "There was a second CIA officer who provided the same reporter the names of ten undercover officers as well as information about counterterrorist operations and flight plans for the black flights going to CIA prisons but that CIA officer was not investigated and was not prosecuted." The reporter is Matthew Cole, who at the time claimed to be writing a book on a CIA rendition operation in Italy. | |
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RT.com
2013-01-24 17:15:00
San Francisco, California is the second-most densely populated urban area in the US, but those nearly one million residents of the City by the Bay are about to lose what little amount of privacy they have. The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission has started work on a program that will update a number of the city's 18,000 streetlights during the next few years. Those new installations might do a whole lot more than just illuminate sidewalks and keep streets lit for cars, though. Through part of a pilot program, city officials can send data wirelessly between more than a dozen of those streetlights. What kind of data can a lamppost collect, though? In San Francisco, the answer is a lot. According to a report in the SF Bay Guardian, Paradox Engineering of Switzerland has already started testing streetlamps in the city that have the ability to wirelessly transmit data from traffic signals and surveillance cameras from one device to another. Soon, though, there will be more than just 14 cameras with that kind of capability. Additionally, the city is currently searching five vendors to test even more advanced lampposts across the city. During last year's Living Labs Global Award in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the LLGA gave Paradox the go-ahead to start testing lights in San Francisco. In a just-issued Request for Proposals, the city calls on others to pitch similar products. In the request, the City writes that as they begin replacing the 18,000 streetlights, the SFPUC "also plans to install an integrated wireless communication monitoring and control system" in order to manage the devices." | |
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Natasha Lennard
Salon 2013-01-24 16:45:00
Police used a device intended to monitor terror suspects, which gathers phone data from nearby non-suspects too. The LAPD used a cell phone monitoring device designed for counterterror purposes in routine criminal investigations 21 times in just four months last year, LA Weekly reported. Using federal funds the police department obtained the Stingray technology, which allows police to track mobile phones in real time, with the purported intention of using the devise to monitor terror suspects. However, notes LA Weekly, the device was used in "13 percent of the 155 'cellular phone investigation cases' that Los Angeles police conducted between June and September last year" - including for burglary, drug and murder investigations. | |
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RT.com
2013-01-24 16:40:00
Trying to quit smoking? You might want to move to Oregon. A new bill would classify cigarettes as a Schedule III controlled substance, making them illegal to purchase without a doctor's prescription. Portland Rep. Mitch Greenlick introduced the bill in the Oregon State Legislature in an attempt to reduce the number of addicted people, but has received criticism from smokers and non-smokers alike who believe the initiative is not feasible. Under Greenlick's proposal, smokers would be charged with a misdemeanor and face up to one year's imprisonment and a $6,250 fine for being caught with a cigarette or any of the other Schedule III controlled substances, including ketamine, lysergic acid and anabolic steroids. The bill also prohibits the State Board of Pharmacy from adopting rules that exempt any nicotine products from the legislation, which would include chewing tobacco, nicotine patches and gums, among others. Law enforcement agencies would have the right to inspect all products that they believe might contain nicotine. "A person commits the crime of unlawful possession of nicotine if the person knowingly possesses more than 0.1 milligram of nicotine," the legislation states. The law would not apply to anyone who was prescribed nicotine by a doctor in the course of professional practice. | |
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David Edwards
Raw Story 2013-01-24 16:36:00
Vice President Joe Biden is trying to assure survivalists and those preparing for doomsday that they will still be able to protect themselves in case of disaster even if assault weapons are banned because shotguns are more effective weapons for defense. During a Google Hangout discussion about gun control, YouTube video blogger Philip DeFranco asked the vice president why an assault weapons ban was necessary if the number of murders had gone down since the Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act temporarily banning some military-style rifles expired in 2004. "So what would you say to the people who say, yes, you are infringing on our rights, not for sporting or for hunting, but in California, everyone talks about the big earthquake or some terrible natural disaster as a last line of defense," DeFranco wondered. "What would you say to those people?" "A shotgun will keep you a lot safer - a double-barreled shotgun - than the assault weapons in somebody's hands that doesn't know how to use it, even one that does know how to use it," Biden advised. "You know, it's hard to use an assault weapon and hit something than it is a shotgun." | |
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Daniel Wallis and Deisy Buitrago
Reuters 2013-01-23 05:59:00
Venezuelan Vice President Nicolas Maduro said unidentified groups had entered the country with the aim of assassinating him and the head of the National Assembly as President Hugo Chavez recovers from cancer in Cuba. Maduro provided no proof of the claim, made at a rally on Wednesday to mark the end of a dictatorship in the OPEC nation 55 years ago, but he said action would be taken shortly. "For several weeks we've been following groups that have infiltrated the country with the aim of making attempts on the life of (Assembly head) Diosdado Cabello and my own," Maduro told a crowd of red-shirted "Chavista" supporters. "They will not manage it against either of us." Chavez named Maduro as his preferred successor before he went to Cuba in early December for surgery, his fourth operation in 18 months for an undisclosed form of cancer in his pelvis that was first diagnosed in mid-2011. Chavez has not been seen in public nor heard from since then. Venezuela's government says his condition is improving after he suffered multiple complications caused by the December 11 surgery. Officials say he is in "good spirits" but no date has been set for his return home. Maduro said he and the energy minister would travel to Havana on Wednesday to see Chavez. | |
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David Edwards
Raw Story 2013-01-24 16:24:00
The Russian Defense Ministry is attempting to clampdown on homosexuality with a new handbook that recommends recruits and contractors be checked for genital tattoos, like a the image of a "face" on the recruit's penis. The Russian newspaper Izvestia on Thursday published details about how recruits would be given a thorough examination and face questioning about their sexual history. Signs of "promiscuity" could indicate mental instability, addictive personality and suicidal tendencies, according to the documents. "The reasons for tattooing may indicate a low cultural and educational level," according a machine translation of the handbook provided by Google. "If set to the impact of external incentives, such as persuasion, direct coercion, it will be evidence of compliance of young men, his tendency to obey the will of another." | |
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Michael Snyder
TruthWins 2013-01-24 16:09:00
There is a clear consensus among the global elite that overpopulation is the primary cause of the most important problems that the world is facing and that something desperately needs to be done about it. They truly believe that humans are a plague upon the earth and that we will literally destroy the planet if we are left to our own devices. To the elite, everything from global warming to our growing economic problems can be directly traced back to the lack of population control. They warn that if nothing is done about the exploding population, we will be facing a future full of poverty, war and suffering on a filthy, desolate planet. They complain that it "costs too much" to keep elderly patients that are terminally ill alive, and they eagerly promote abortion for babies that are "not wanted" because they would be "too much of a burden" on society. Anything that reduces the human population in any way is a good thing for those that believe in this philosophy. This twisted philosophy is being promoted in our movies, in our television shows, in our music, in countless books, on many of the most prominent websites in the world, and it is being taught at nearly all of the most important colleges and universities on the planet. The people promoting this philosophy have very, very deep pockets, and they are actually convinced that they are helping to "save the world" by trying to reduce the size of the human population. In fact, many of them are entirely convinced that we are in a "life or death" struggle for the fate of the planet, and that if humanity does not willingly choose to embrace population control soon, then a solution will have to be "forced" upon them. Yes, I know that all of this may sound like something out of a science fiction novel. But there are a whole lot of people out there that are absolutely obsessed with this stuff, and many of them are in very prominent positions around the globe. The following are 30 population control quotes which show that the elite truly believe that humans are a plague upon the earth and that a great culling is necessary... | |
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Dr. Ismail Salami
Information Clearing House 2013-01-24 15:42:00
In a 155-page report, four US nuclear experts have called upon the Obama administration to impose tougher economic sanctions against Iran and resort to overt operations through using warplanes and missiles on Iranian nuclear sites. Apart from the fact that morbid mindset of this nature only helps fan up chaos and serves as an impetus to widespread pandemonium in the region, any mention of any such policy let alone an adoption of it will gradually terminate in an endless array of military legitimizations. Co-authored by Mark Dubowitz, who runs Zionist-controlled Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD) and David Albright, a physicist who heads the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) and who is responsible for concocting lies and myths about Iraq having weapons of mass destruction and drawing the country into an abysmal vortex of destruction and devastation, the report can be but seen in the light of yet another overtly brash attempt by the US to push ahead with further militarism in the Middle East. | |
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Washington Free Beacon
2013-01-23 15:02:00
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton testified Wednesday in a lengthy set of hearings on the Benghazi attacks before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee. She spoke repeatedly of a growing jihadist threat in the region, deficiencies in the lead-up to and aftermath of the attack at the U.S. mission, and the administration's role in addressing both. Here are six key takeaways from the testimony: 1. Clinton acknowledged the 'spreading jihadist threat' The secretary of state emphasized the "global movement" at work in a post-Arab Spring Middle East and North Africa in her remarks to the Senate: | |
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PressTV
2013-01-24 14:57:00
Dr. Kevin Barrett, one of America's best-known critics of the War on Terror, has raised questions about the death of Aaron Swartz, a prominent info-warrior and critic of President Obama's "kill list." "As with so many freemasonic assassinations, including that of 'DC Madam' Deborah Jean Palfrey, Swartz was hanged. Naturally the police are calling it suicide," Dr. Barrett wrote in an article titled "Is Obama killing kill list critics?" published on Veterans Today. According to Barrett, "Swartz's death raises the obvious question: Can you criticize Obama's barbarian, unconstitutional 'kill list' without ending up on it yourself?" | |
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Laura Bassett
Huffington Post 2013-01-24 14:34:00
A Republican lawmaker in New Mexico introduced a bill on Wednesday that would legally require victims of rape to carry their pregnancies to term in order to use the fetus as evidence for a sexual assault trial. House Bill 206, introduced by state Rep. Cathrynn Brown (R), would charge a rape victim who ended her pregnancy with a third-degree felony for "tampering with evidence." "Tampering with evidence shall include procuring or facilitating an abortion, or compelling or coercing another to obtain an abortion, of a fetus that is the result of criminal sexual penetration or incest with the intent to destroy evidence of the crime," the bill says. | |
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Washington Free Beacon
"Word on the national security street is that General James Mattis is being given the bum's rush out of his job as commander of Central Command, and is being told to vacate his office several months earlier than planned," reports veteran national security correspondent Thomas E. Ricks.2013-01-24 13:52:00
It now appears likely that Gen. Mattis, a Marine Corps legend, will leave his post as head of America's most important combatant command in March, several months earlier than planned. Ricks continues: | |
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Natasha Lennard
Salon 2013-01-24 13:49:00
A Geneva-based team will examine reports of civilian deaths and the legality of the U.S.'s extrajudicial killings. The U.N. announced Thursday the launch of its investigation into targeted killings carried out by the U.S. and its allies. U.N. special rapporteur Ben Emmerson, who monitors counter-terrorism programs, will lead the Geneva-based investigation, which will look at civilian deaths in drone strikes and the legality of extradjudicial executions. As Salon reported last year when Emmerson first announced the U.N. project, the human rights attorney told a Harvard conference that his team would be weighing up evidence as to whether the Obama administration was guilty of war crimes. He said: The investigation's launch comes just as the Obama administration finalizes a manual on guidelines for targeted killings, further cementing kill lists into the U.S. national security apparatus. | |
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Greg Miller, Ellen Nakashima and Karen DeYoung
Washington Post 2013-01-19 13:45:00
The Obama administration is nearing completion of a detailed counterterrorism manual that is designed to establish clear rules for targeted-killing operations but leaves open a major exemption for the CIA's campaign of drone strikes in Pakistan, U.S. officials said. The carve-out would allow the CIA to continue pounding al-Qaeda and Taliban targets for a year or more before the agency is forced to comply with more stringent rules spelled out in a classified document that officials have described as a counterterrorism "playbook." The document, which is expected to be submitted to President Obama for final approval within weeks, marks the culmination of a year-long effort by the White House to codify its counterterrorism policies and create a guide for lethal operations through Obama's second term. A senior U.S. official involved in drafting the document said that a few issues remain unresolved but described them as minor. The senior U.S. official said the playbook "will be done shortly." | |
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Suzanne Goldenberg
Guardian 2013-01-24 17:12:00
Islanders claim Berkely-based Earth Island Institute failed to fulfill deal to pay $400,000 to stop hunt. Villagers in the Solomon Islands have slaughtered up to 900 dolphins in the course of a dispute with a conservation group, Earth Island Institute. Accounts of the dispute vary. The islanders say the Berkeley-based conservation group failed to pay them, as agreed, for stopping the traditional hunt. Earth Island says the slaughter was the work of a "renegade group" trying to sabotage conservation work. What is clear, however, is that a misunderstanding between the villagers and Earth Island has resulted in one of the worst cases of dolphin slaughter in the Solomon Islands for some time, and delivered a huge setback to conservation efforts in a world "hot spot" for the dolphin trade. The Solomon Islands were notorious among conservationists as a source of live dolphins for sea aquariums in China and Dubai. A captive dolphin sells for up to $150,000. | |
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Matthew Jaffe
ABC News 2013-01-24 16:42:00
Thick sheets of ice left on a Chicago warehouse are threatening to collapse the building after firefighters twice had to beat back flames there during a frigid cold spell. The abandoned warehouse at the intersection of 37th and Ashland in Chicago's Bridgeport neighborhood burst into flames on Tuesday night. Firefighters succeeded in putting out the blaze - one of the city's biggest in decades - but it reignited a little more than a day later. All the water poured onto the building meant more ice on the structure because of the frigid temperatures that have hit the city in recent days. All the ice has put more weight on the five-story warehouse. "The last few days have been really tough. It's been really cold and really wet," Peter Vandorpe of the Chicago Fire Department told ABC News' Alex Perez. | |
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CBS Miami
2013-01-24 00:00:00
A southwest Florida man was arrested after he reportedly jumped off the roof of a couple's North Ft. Myers home, knocked one person over and then went on a rampage inside the residence. Oh, he was naked at the time. The homeowners told Lee County sheriff's deputies that just before 7 p.m. they heard noises on the roof and went outside to see what was going on. That's when they spotted a nude Gregory Bruni, 21, from Venice on the roof, according to the News-Press. Bruni jumped off the roof and knocked over one of the victims. He then reportedly ran inside the house and tore a 72 inch flat screen TV off a living room wall. As the man yelled to his wife to get his gun, Bruni continued to trash the house. The sheriff's office said the man's wife managed to fire three shots at Bruni, but missed. | |
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Stephen C. Webster
Raw Story 2013-01-24 16:14:00
In an interview with music website Noisecreep, "Twisted Sister" frontman Dee Snider said he doesn't know why most Republicans who seem to love fellow rocker Ted Nugent cannot seem to recall him dodging the draft during the Vietnam war in the most revolting way possible: by pooping and vomiting on himself for a week, and doing hard drugs. "Ted's always been a gun-toting conservative," he said after being asked to opine on Nugent's claim that he's prepared to launch an armed revolt against the U.S. government over the reelection of Presidnet Barack Obama. "But what gets me is that he was actually a draft dodger! I mean, to the point where he didn't bathe for a week, and vomited on himself to deliberately avoid the draft." It wasn't all criticism, though: "I totally understand why he did that," Snider added, "but all of these Republicans who love Ted don't seem to know or remember that too well. It's crazy that he's become one of the voices of conservative America even though he was a draft dodger. If you don't believe me, Google it." | |
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David Edwards
Raw Story 2013-01-24 16:10:00
A chain of Catholic Hospitals has beaten a malpractice lawsuit by saying that fetuses are not equivalent to human lives. According to the Colorado Independent, in the death of a 31-year-old woman carrying twin fetuses, Catholic Health Initiatives' attorneys argued that in cases of wrongful death, the term "person" only applies to individuals born alive, and not to those who die in utero. Lori Stodghill was seven months pregnant with twin boys on the day she died. The Independent reported that on New Year's Day 2006 in Cañon City, Colorado, Stodghill was admitted to the Emergency Room at St. Thomas More Hospital complaining of nausea, vomiting and shortness of breath. She lost consciousness as she was being wheeled into an exam room and ER staff were unable to resuscitate her. It was later found that a main artery supplying blood to her lungs was clogged, which led to a massive heart attack. Stodghill never woke up, dying an hour after her admission to St. Thomas. Her twins died in her womb. Frantic ER personnel had paged Stodghill's doctor, obstetrician Pelham Staples, but the doctor never answered. A wrongful-death suit filed on the twins' behalf by Stodghill's husband, corrections officer Jeremy Stodghill, maintained that Staples should have made it to the hospital or ordered an emergency cesarian section by phone in order to save the 7-month-old fetuses. | |
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Lindsay Jolivet
Yahoo! Canada News - Daily Buzz 2013-01-24 15:41:00
Would you like glass with that? Subway restaurants have already incited the ire of customers this week after one of its subs didn't measure up to its footlong name. Now a customer in Peterborough, ON, is saying her sub contained pieces of glass that her toddler swallowed. According to The Peterborough Examiner, Laura Clark bought her daughter a 6-inch turkey sub last week and when her daughter bit into it, she began to complain her mouth was hurting. Aubrey, 3, had cuts inside her mouth, according to Clark, who reported the allegation to Subway's head office. She said her daughter also passed two pieces of glass the next day. | |
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Fox News
2013-01-24 00:00:00
A potentially perfect match almost cost Mary Kay Beckman her life. FOX 5 KVVU reports that Beckman, of Las Vegas, is suing Match.com for $10 million, alleging that the dating website doesn't do enough to keep violent offenders off its site after she met a man who attempted to kill her. "He broke into my garage," Beckman told the station. "When the police arrested him, he said he wasn't there to hurt me. He was there to kill me. His intent was to kill me that night." Beckman said she had been using Match.com for two months when she met Wade Ridley in September 2010. After just eight days, Beckman ended the relationship, causing Ridley to turn violent. Later, in 2011, Ridley stabbed her 10 times with a butcher knife and stomped on her head when the knife broke. The 50-year-old real estate agent and mother of two said the attack left her hospitalized for months. She endured three head surgeries and a seizure. While she was in the hospital, Beckman said Ridley killed an Arizona woman he met on the same website. | |
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Geoff Berg
Houston Chronicle 2013-01-24 14:46:00
Michael Garcia has worked at Laurenzo's on Washington Avenue for two years. Because I've been eating there at least once a week for about a year, I've known him as the guy who always welcomed me with a surprisingly sincere smile and a handshake. I had no idea he was also a hero. Another of Garcia's regulars, Kim Castillo and her family (including her five year old, Milo, who has Down Syndrome) were eating at Laurenzo's on Wednesday night. After the Castillos sat down, the people sitting next to them asked to be moved. Garcia moved them, and then he heard one of them say this: | |
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Bruce Golding
NY Post 2013-01-24 14:41:00
Prosecutors want jurors at the upcoming "cannibal cop" trial to learn about defendant Gilberto Valle's computer chats with an online pal who told him that the taste of human flesh "isn't quite like pork, but very meaty anyway." Court papers say Valle's would-be dining partner -- who used the screen name "Moody Blues" -- boasted that he'd feasted previously on "a black woman and a white child." "I've not had a young white woman. Looking forward to it," Moody Blues added. Valle -- who said he hadn't eaten anyone before -- replied, "Excellent," according to the Manhattan federal court filing. Prosecutors also cited the following exchange: Moody Blues: "If we get someone...and we finish the meat early, would you go for another?" Valle: "Yeah. I think we would have to give it time though." Moody Blues: "Why? Go for a completely different type. I'd love to eat another child." | |
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Dave Warner
Chicago Tribune 2013-01-24 14:38:00
Five people are accused of imprisoning disabled adults in a Philadelphia basement to steal their Social Security checks, part of a pattern of terror that stretched over a decade and resulted in two deaths, a prosecutor said on Wednesday. Each defendant in the so-called Philadelphia dungeon case faces life in prison, U.S. Attorney Zane David Memeger said at a press conference to unveil the 196-count indictment. The alleged ringleader, Linda Weston, 52, could also face the death penalty because she is charged with two counts of murder in aid of racketeering, Memeger said. At times she chained captives, or put drugs in their food to subdue them, while cashing their government payments. The malnourished captives were discovered in October 2011 by a landlord during a routine check of the two-story apartment house in a working-class Philadelphia neighborhood. | |
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Christina Ng
ABC News 2013-01-24 13:35:00
Three Tennessee homecoming king nominees made a unanimous and touching decision that no matter who won, they would give the crown to a beloved student with a genetic condition. Students Jesse Cooper, Drew Gibbs and Zeke Grissom were all nominated for homecoming king at Community High School's basketball homecoming ceremony. The teens got together and decided that the winner would turn over the honor to junior Scotty Maloney, who has Williams Syndrome, a neurological disorder that inhibits learning and speech. "I've been blessed with so many things," Cooper told ABC News' Nashville affiliate WKRN-TV. "I just wanted Scotty to experience something great in his high school days." | |
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Vaimoana Tapaleao
The NZ Herald 2013-01-24 12:29:00
Up to 900 dolphins have been killed by villagers in the Solomon Islands, who claim it was an act of retaliation for not being paid money they were promised. The mass slaughter of the bottlenose dolphins has caused international condemnation and outrage. But those parties involved are putting the blame on each other; with villagers saying they were underpaid by the Earth Island Institute - an American-based group that works to conserve ecosystems around the world. People from the village of Fanalei, on the island of Malaita, claim that the institute had made a deal to pay up to S$2.4 million ($400,000) to stop the killing of dolphins. However only S$700,000 had been received, villagers say. The killing of dolphins is seen as a traditional practice on the island and provides meat and income for villagers. Dolphin teeth are also traditionally used to pay a bride's price. | |
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Raw Story
2013-01-24 12:21:00
Burger King has ditched an Irish supplier of beef that is at the centre of a food scare after horse meat was discovered in beefburgers sold in Britain and Ireland, where it is deemed to be a taboo. The US fast-food giant said Wednesday it has decided to replace all Silvercrest beef products in Britain and Ireland with those from another supplier. "This is a voluntary and precautionary measure," Burger King said in a statement. "We are working diligently to identify suppliers that can produce 100 percent pure Irish and British beef products that meet our high quality standards." | |
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Karen McVeigh
Raw Story 2013-01-24 12:19:00
Jackson clinic told it could be shut down in six weeks because it has failed to comply with controversial state legislation Mississippi's only remaining abortion clinic, which won an eleventh-hour temporary reprieve from closure last summer, has been told it could be shut down in six weeks after it was found to be in violation of a restrictive new state law this month. Time is now running out for the clinic, which is in the middle of a legal battle to prove the new law is unconstitutional. The Jackson Women's Health Organisation, which has become a focus of the bitter fight for abortion rights across the nation, successfully won an injunction in July which allowed its medical staff time to try to comply with the law. But the injunction has run out, and, earlier this month, the facility's owners were told by officials from the Department of Health they were not in compliance with House Bill 1390, passed and signed by Republican legislators in April. Mississippi lawmakers have openly stated that the legislation, which requires the clinic's doctors to gain admitting privileges at local hospitals, is aimed at closing JWHO and thus ending abortion in the state. | |
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Raw Story
2013-01-24 12:10:00
About 15,000 crocodiles have escaped from a farm in South Africa amid heavy rains and flooding, local daily Beeld reported. The predators sprung from the Rakwena Crocodile Farm in the far north of the country when owners were forced to open the gates to prevent a storm surge. | |
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Richard A. Fuchs
The Celts were long considered a barbaric and violent society. But new findings from a 2,600-year-old grave in Germany suggest the ancient people were much more sophisticated than previously thought. The little Bettelbühl stream on the Danube River was completely unknown, except to local residents. But that changed in the summer of 2010 when a spectacular discovery was made just next to the creek.DW.de 2013-01-24 11:30:00
Not far from the Heuneburg, the site of an early Celtic settlement, researchers stumbled upon the elaborate grave of a Celtic princess. In addition to gold and amber, they found a subterranean burial chamber fitted with massive oak beams. It was an archeological sensation that, after 2,600 years, the chamber was completely intact. The wooden construction was preserved by the constant flow of water from the Bettelbühl stream. "In dry ground, the wood wouldn't have had a chance to survive over so many centuries," said Nicole Ebinger-Rist, the director of the research project handling the find. | |
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K. Kris Hirst
A late 2012 article in the journal Antiquity featured the well preserved and extensive bone and ivory artifacts recovered from the Yana Rhinoceros Horn Sites, six 28,000 year old sites located above the Arctic Circle in far eastern Siberia. Yana RHS is important for a number of reasons, not the least is its age and location, east of the Verkhoyansk Range in Siberia, and thus close enough in time and space to be a candidate site for the initial colonists of the Americas. Putting the article in Antiquity allowed the researchers to show off color images of the artifacts, some of which lead archaeologist Vladimir V. Pitulko was kind enough to let me use in this new photo essay.Ask.com 2013-01-24 09:12:00
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Huffington Post
2013-01-23 18:35:00
The Earth was so young 300 million years ago, the first land animals had yet to evolve into dinosaurs, most scientists believe. If that's the case, how do you explain the discovery in Russia of a piece of a gear shift -- a common machine part -- embedded into a hunk of 300-million-year-old coal. Has this artifact been correctly identified? And if so, who could have made this thing? And for what purpose? According to Komsomolskaya Pravda, a resident of Vladivostok -- near the borders of China and North Korea -- named Dmitry, recently noticed something odd about a hunk of coal he had obtained to heat his home during the winter. A metallic-looking rail or rod was pressed into the coal, prompting Dmitry to contact biologist Valery Brier, in the seaside Primorye region. | |
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For the first time, scientists recently captured images of the mysterious giant squid in their natural habitat off the coast of Japan.2013-01-23 18:14:00
Edith Widder, oceanographer and marine biologist, who was involved in the expedition, said on "CBS This Morning" the breakthrough could be the beginning of many discoveries of the ocean's depths. She said, "It's been said that we know more about the moon's behind than the ocean's bottom, and we've explored only 5 percent of our ocean's bottom. Look what's down there. ... We know so little. ... There could be cures for cancer. The Nobel Prize in 2008 was awarded for a chemical extracted from a bio-luminescent jellyfish and that's discovery has been equated to the invention of the microscope in terms of the impact it's had on science. So how do we even know? And we've spent billions on exploring outer space and only millions on exploring the deep ocean. ... I think that there will be new discoveries so long as we have the opportunity to go out with ships and submersibles." | |
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Raw Story
2013-01-24 16:34:00
A plunge in the world's population of frogs and toads may be blamed, at least in part, on farm pesticides, researchers in Germany said on Thursday. Tests of fungicides and insecticides, when used at recommended dilutions, killed 40 percent of frogs after seven days, and in one case, 100 percent of them after just one hour, they said. The experiments, which entailed only a small number of animals, were carried out by a team led by Carsten Bruehl at the University of Coblenz-Landau in Germany. They collected 150 juvenile European common frogs (Rana temporaria) to expose them to seven agricultural products, the goal being to reproduce in the lab conditions which were akin to those in the field. The frogs were kept in large containers with soil where barley was grown. The chemical was sprayed once, delivering a volume that the researchers said was equal to the amount that would fall on a similar area of an arable field. | |
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Bernard Condon and Paul Wiseman
Associated Press 2013-01-24 13:48:00
Five years after the start of the Great Recession, the toll is terrifyingly clear: Millions of middle-class jobs have been lost in developed countries the world over. And the situation is even worse than it appears. Most of the jobs will never return, and millions more are likely to vanish as well, say experts who study the labor market. What's more, these jobs aren't just being lost to China and other developing countries, and they aren't just factory work. Increasingly, jobs are disappearing in the service sector, home to two-thirds of all workers. They're being obliterated by technology. Year after year, the software that runs computers and an array of other machines and devices becomes more sophisticated and powerful and capable of doing more efficiently tasks that humans have always done. For decades, science fiction warned of a future when we would be architects of our own obsolescence, replaced by our machines; an Associated Press analysis finds that the future has arrived. | |
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Jeff Eisenhauer
CNET Asia 2013-01-16 12:56:00
Harbin is one of the most genuinely unique places in China. Though it's known for its annual ice festival, the city has many other marvels like a huge tiger park and a train that can travel faster than 300 km/h in temperatures as low as -40 degrees Celsius. These are all cool, but Harbin is apparently not a city to rest on its laurels. The Robot Restaurant opened in Harbin in June and has taken the F&B industry in China further into the mechanized world. Robot Restaurant staffs a total of 20 robots as waiters, cooks and busboys. Turns out Noodle Bot might need to expand its repertoire if it hopes to compete with Robot Restaurant's 18 different kinds of service robots.
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The role that genetically modified (GM) food should play in our food chain is a highly contested political issues. One interesting facet of the debate in the past year has been the pro-GM lobby's interest in staking the 'scientific high-ground'; simultaneously positioning itself as the voice of reason and progress, while painting its opponents as unsophisticated 'anti-science' luddites, whose arguments are full of dogma and emotion, but lack scientific rigor. In this essay Peter Melchett explores how such crude characterizations are themselves based on logic that is itself profoundly damaging to the concept and representation of 'science' in our national culture. Powerful forces in Western society have been promoting genetic engineering (now usually genetic modification - GM) in agricultural crops since the mid-1990s. They have included many governments, in particular those of the USA and UK, powerful individual politicians like George Bush and Tony Blair, scientific bodies like the UK's Royal Society, research councils, successive UK Government chief scientists, many individual scientists, and companies selling GM products. They have ignored the views of citizens, and most sales of GM food have relied on secrecy - denying consumers information on what they are buying (20 US States are currently embroiled in fierce battles over GM labelling, strenuously opposed by Monsanto). Worse, they have consistently promoted GM in ways which are not only unscientific, but which have been positively damaging to the integrity of science. This is, of course, an argument usually aimed at those who, like me, are opposed to GM crops. We are accused of being 'anti-science', emotional and irrational, and more recently, of being as bad as 'Nazi book burners' by the President of the National Farmers' Union. This criticism has been effective in framing the debate about GM crops in the media in the UK, where the conflict over GM is routinely presented as a debate between those who are pro and those who are anti-science. This is reinforced by the fact that those selected to speak in favour of GM are usually themselves scientists (albeit often working for GM companies, or funded to work on GM crops), and those selected to oppose GM crops are usually environmentalists, farmers, or citizens concerned about the safety of the food they eat. Scientists who are critical of GM crops are almost never interviewed by the media. | |
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Stephen C. Webster
Raw Story 2013-01-24 12:13:00
Genetic sequencing of wolves and domesticated dogs has revealed a key insight into how that evolutionary change happened, finding that it has to do more with human diets than previously expected. To many dog owners, it probably won't come as a surprise that food motivation has been a key driver in their pet's makings, but scientists writing this week for the journal Natureexplained that there's genetic evidence to back up what's long been mostly anecdotal knowledge of man's best friend. Researchers took DNA samples from wolves and dogs and compared the differences, finding a segment of 10 genes among the differentiation that account for dogs' ability to digest starchy and fatty foods that humans love. | |
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wildlifeextra.com
2013-01-24 11:52:00
Heat waves can be deadly for birds As the heat wave in Australia continues, many birds may no longer be able to take the heat and large numbers could die as a result, researchers at the Universities of Cape Town and Pretoria warn. "Heat waves in 2009 and 2010, which did not reach the intensity of the current record-breaking heat wave, led to large die-offs of birds in parts of Australia" says Prof. Andrew McKechnie. Over the last few days, people are beginning to report finding dead birds in their backyards on Twitter. Conditions are likely worsening as the heat wave wears on. An international research team, led by researchers at the Percy FitzPatrick Instutute of African Ornithology at the University of Cape Town, are investigating how heat waves affect the physiology and behaviour of birds. They are on high alert for reports of impacts of the current Australian heat wave as such events will be valuable for predicting how climate change will affect birds. | |
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Joseph Castro
LiveScience 2013-01-24 11:00:00
Despite having tiny brains, dung beetles are surprisingly decent navigators, able to follow straight paths as they roll poo balls they've collected away from a dung source. But it seems the insects' abilities are more remarkable than previously believed. Like ancient seafarers, dung beetles can navigate using the starry sky and the glow from the Milky Way, new research shows. "This is the first time where we see animals using the Milky Way for orientation," said lead researcher Marie Dacke, a biologist at Lund University in Sweden. "It's also the first time we see that insects can use the stars." After locating a fresh pile of feces, dung beetles will often collect and roll away a large piece of spherical dung. Last year, Dacke and her colleagues discovered the beetles climb on their dung balls and dance around in circles before taking off. This dance is not one of joy, however; the insects are checking out the sky to get their bearings. "The dorsal (upper) parts of the dung beetles' eyes are specialized to be able to analyze the direction of light polarization - the direction that light vibrates in," Dacke told LiveScience. So when a beetle looks up, it's taking in the sun, the moon and the pattern of ambient polarized light. These celestial cues help the beetle avoid accidentally circling back to the poo pile, where other beetles may try to steal its food, Dacke said. | |
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Raw Story
2013-01-23 18:00:00
Scientists who created a mutant bird flu virus said Wednesday they will resume the controversial research after taking a 12-month break to allay fears of the bug escaping the lab or falling into terrorist hands. Citing a "public health responsibility" to continue the work, the teams said research will resume in countries whose governments had given the go-ahead, but not in the United States, which is mulling safety guidelines, nor at US-sponsored research projects in other countries. "We declare an end to the voluntary moratorium on avian-flu transmission studies," said an announcement published jointly in the US-based journal Science and its British counterpart Nature and signed by 40 scientists from research institutions in a dozen countries. Teams in the United States and the Netherlands announced in December 2011 they had engineered a hybrid of the H5N1 bird flu virus that was transmissible by air among mammals - in this case ferrets, which are considered a good research model for humans. Publication of their results was delayed by months and their work halted for a year amid concerns that terrorists may lay their hands on the data. | |
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Bhawani Negi
Hindustan Times 2013-01-19 16:39:00
The "Queen of Hills" was witness to the record breaking single day highest snowfall in the month of January in the last eight years. The heavy snowfall continued on second consecutive day on Friday till late night and recorded a total of 63.6 cms of snow in two days in Shimla. | |
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Michel Comte
AlterNet 2013-01-24 16:16:00
Arctic air sweeping through Canada and parts of the United States sent temperatures plunging to record lows on Wednesday with a wind chill of minus 40 degrees (Celsius and Fahrenheit). Canada was the coldest nation in the world at the start of the day with with temperatures as low as minus 43.1 degrees Celsius (-45.6 Fahrenheit) in the Northwest Territories, according to public broadcaster CBC. In Ottawa, buildings cracked in the cold, making sounds like the crash of a wrecking ball. | |
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Rob Gutro
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center 2013-01-24 16:09:00
Tropical Storm Oswald's heavy rains have caused flooding in Queensland, Australia and NASA's TRMM satellite measured almost two feet of rain fell in certain areas. Tropical cyclone Oswald's sustained winds have never been greater than 35 knots (~40.2 mph) but the storm's extreme rainfall has resulted in widespread flooding in Australia over northern Queensland. Many roads have been reported flooded resulting in some communities being cut off. | |
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News 24
2013-01-24 16:01:00
Floods in southern Mozambique have displaced up to 70 000 people and cut power exports to energy-hungry neighbour South Africa in half, officials said on Thursday. The south and centre of the country have been placed on red alert after experiencing the heaviest rainfall since devastating floods killed some 800 people in 2000. In some places current water levels are higher than they were during that disaster. As the Limpopo River raged through the southern town of Chokwe, people slept in the open, many by the roadside, local media reported. The record flood levels submerged houses in some places, emergency officials said. "We are sending seven days of food for 70 000 people," the country's international humanitarian head Lola Castro told AFP. | |
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John Vidal
Guardian 2013-01-24 15:09:00
Report says thousands of lives could have been saved and damage to ecosystems avoided if early warnings heeded. Europe has failed to learn the lessons from many environmental and health disasters like Chernobyl, leaded petrol and DDT insecticides, and is now ignoring warnings about bee deaths, GM food and nanotechnology, according to an 800-page report by the European Environment Agency. Thousands of lives could have been saved and extensive damage to ecosystems avoided if the "precautionary principle" had been applied on the basis of early warnings, say the authors of the 2013 Late Lessons from Early warnings report published on Wednesday. They accuse industry of working to corrupt or undermine regulation by spinning and manipulating research and applying pressure on governments for financial benefit. "[It has] deliberately recruited reputable scientists, media experts and politicians to call on if their products were linked to possible hazards. Manufacturing doubt, disregarding scientific evidence of risks and claiming over-regulation appear to be a deliberate strategy for some industry groups and think tanks to undermine precautionary decision-making." The peer-reviewed study, which is aimed to improve understanding of scientific information, looks at 18 areas including radiation from mobile phones, birth control pills in the aquatic environment, and invasive species. It found that governments often introduced laws much too late to prevent deaths and massive financial costs, but were highly likely to ignore scientific warnings and resist any regulation. The authors found more than 80 cases where no regulation was introduced when it later turned out that the risk from a technology or chemical was real, or still unproven. | |
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Anthony Watts
Watts Up With That? 2013-01-23 18:19:00
More counterpunch to Obama's recent speech. Rocket scientists -vs- James Hansen, "in God we trust, all others bring data" WASHINGTON, Jan. 23, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ - A group of 20 ex-NASA scientists have concluded that the science used to support the man-made climate change hypothesis is not settled and no convincing physical evidence exists to support catastrophic climate change forecasts. Beginning in February 2012, the group of scientists calling themselves The Right Climate Stuff (TRCS) team received presentations by scientists representing all sides of the climate change debate and embarked on an in-depth review of a number of climate studies. | |
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Anthony Watts
Watts Up With That? 2013-01-23 18:13:00
If you have not read this yet, now is the time. Given what president Obama recently said about skeptics in his inauguration address, I thought this 2010 article would be worth revisiting. In Germany, there's a revolution going on. That revolution is that they are backing away from the global warming issue, and taking on much more pragmatic outlook on it an many things "green". For example, they are going big on coal power. Below is one excerpt from the series, describing the David and Goliath story of Steve McIntyre. Links to all eight articles of the series follow. I suggest sharing this far and wide, because it tells the skeptic story quite well. - Anthony | |
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Associated Press
A series of late-night, window-rattling booms reported in two Southwestern Indiana counties has left investigators stumped.2013-01-22 17:52:00 Several residents of Vanderburgh and Warrick counties reported hearing loud booms and feeling vibrations on the nights of Jan. 7 and 8, spurring an investigation into the noises. The Evansville Courier & Press reported Monday that local public safety agencies have found no concrete evidence about the source of the noises. The sounds had generated speculation that they might have been caused by explosions in nearby coal mines or produced by aircraft. |
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Raw Story
2013-01-24 16:32:00
Three people have died in Romania and Macedonia after being infected with the H1N1 influenza strain known as swine flu, the two countries' health ministries said Thursday. "Two people have died from the H1N1 flu," Romania's state secretary of health, Alexandru Rafila, announced on private TV network Antena 3. The victims were a 55-year old woman and a 61-year old man. "But we cannot in any way talk about a flu outbreak," he said. | |
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Stephen C. Webster
Raw Story 2013-01-24 16:28:00
If you or someone you love have suffered a stroke and been forced into disability, a new breakthrough made by doctors at Tel Aviv University appears to offer hope for a "significant" level of recovery in the near future. Clinical trials conducted by Dr. Shai Efrati found that sitting inside a pressurized chamber pumped full of oxygen-rich air, 90 minutes a day, five days a week for two months, caused the brains of post-stroke patients to exhibit fresh neurological activity in areas thought to be rendered useless. It works by pumping up the blood oxygen level of stroke patients tenfold, researchers explained in a study published Wednesday by scientific journal PLoS One. Each of the patients selected for the trial had suffered a stroke within 36 months of the treatment, and all of them had at least one motor function impairment as a result. | |
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Agence France-Presse
2013-01-24 15:15:00
The European Commission has decided to freeze the approval process for genetically modified food crops through the end of its mandate next year while it works towards an agreement with EU member states. "The Commission, if it wants, could launch a procedure to authorise the farming of one GM soya and six corn strains... but it won't do so," said Frederic Vincent, a spokesman for Health Commissioner Tonio Borg. "The authorisations for farming are frozen," he added. Vincent said the priority of Borg, who only recently took up the post of health commissioner, was to relaunch discussions with member states. The Commission's approval of GM crops has poisoned relations with a number of the 27 EU members. | |
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Shannon Pettypiece
Bloomberg 2013-01-18 14:53:00
The worst U.S. flu season since 2009 intensified last week, killing hundreds more people as the viral epidemic spread to additional states, health officials said. About 8.3 percent of all deaths nationwide were due to the flu and pneumonia for the week ended Jan. 12, more than the 7.3 percent level for an epidemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said today. About 90 percent of those deaths are people older than age 65, who are being hit particularly hard by this year's flu strain, the Atlanta-based agency said. The flu season, which has now been at epidemic levels for two straight weeks, may result in 36,000 deaths, said William Schaffner, chairman of the department of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, Tennessee. Infections will likely persist through February and March though cases may have peaked in some regions, including the East Coast and Southeast, he said. | |
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Anne Angelone, L.Ac.
Primal Docs 2013-01-23 13:51:00
If you have been following conventional advice, then you've been told to avoid fats to prevent heart disease. Turns out if you want to maintain a healthy vascular system and prevent heart disease, sugar is the target you want to seek out and eliminate. Research has found people who get at least 25 percent of their daily calories from added sugars of any kind were more than three times more likely to have low levels of the "good" HDL cholesterol in their bloodstream, a risk factor for heart disease, than people who got less than 5 percent of their calories from sweeteners. The high sugar consumers were also found to have higher triglycerides than normal, another risk factor for heart disease. For a person who eats 2,000 calories a day, 25 percent is 500 calories, or 125 grams of sugar. To give you an idea, a medium white chocolate mocha has about 60 grams of sugar while a pecan roll has about 50. And that's just breakfast. While most people worry about added weight from excess sugar, they should also consider their risk of heart disease. Metabolic syndrome from sugar raises heart disease risk Researchers turned their microscopes on sugar when it became clear during the explosion of obesity and diabetes over the last 20 to 30 years that metabolic syndrome is the leading risk factor for heart disease. Metabolic syndrome is a condition brought on by a diet high in sugar and carbohydrates that eventually causes insulin resistance. Eating a diet high in sugars and starchy carbs - pastas, pastries, breads - causes your body to pump out high amounts of insulin. Eventually the body's cells, overwhelmed by the demands of insulin, become insulin resistant. Also, the pancreas becomes overwhelmed by pumping out so much insulin and becomes exhausted. As a result, blood sugar levels skyrocket. Many people with insulin resistance go on to develop Type 2 diabetes. | |
Comment: For more information on how to start a sugar-less diet, check our forum threadLife Without Bread.
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Elizabeth Renter
Natural Society 2013-01-24 12:00:00
It sounds like something out of George Orwell's book 1984, yet scientists have touted it as a major advancement in the field of medicine. Have you heard of the 'electronic tattoo' fully equipped with the ability to track patients' vital signs and report the findings to researchers? The technology is known as an epidermal electronic system (EES), and was developed by an international team of researchers from the United States, China and Singapore. When it comes to microchips, implants, or electronic tattoos - it all sounds a little too futuristic, like these "advances" may be paving the way for government tracking of citizens, or worse. But some industries are promoting these high-tech ideas as major advancements in their field. The medical field is just one place these ideas are gaining a foothold. According to the International Business Times, hospitals and doctors' offices may one day soon outfit their patients with temporary electronic tattoos. These little skin-patches are said to carry a wealth of information in a tiny space and can reportedly help reduce medical errors while improving care. "It's a technology that blurs the distinction between electronics and biology," says Rogers in characterizing the patches that allow researchers to track vital signs and more. | |
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Ian Sample
The Guardian, UK 2013-01-23 21:26:00
Britain's most senior medical adviser has warned MPs that the rise in drug-resistant diseases could trigger a national emergency comparable to a catastrophic terrorist attack, pandemic flu or major coastal flooding. Dame Sally Davies, the chief medical officer, said the threat from infections that are resistant to frontline antibiotics was so serious that the issue should be added to the government's national risk register of civil emergencies. She described what she called an "apocalyptic scenario" where people going for simple operations in 20 years' time die of routine infections "because we have run out of antibiotics". The register was established in 2008 to advise the public and businesses on national emergencies that Britain could face in the next five years. The highest priority risks on the latest register include a deadly flu outbreak, catastrophic terrorist attacks, and major flooding on the scale of 1953, the last occasion on which a national emergency was declared in the UK. Speaking to MPs on the Commons science and technology committee, Davies said she would ask the Cabinet Office to add antibiotic resistance to the national risk register in the light of an annual report on infectious disease she will publish in March. Davies declined to elaborate on the report, but said its publication would coincide with a government strategy to promote more responsible use of antibiotics among doctors and the clinical professions. "We need to get our act together in this country," she told the committee. | |
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Deborah Kotz
Boston Globe 2013-01-22 19:57:00
I was relieved when I heard the news that Logan airport would be replacing its full body backscatter scanners -- which use small amounts of radiation -- with the millimeter wave scanners that don't use any radiation. The official reason for replacing the security scanner is because of a failure to fulfill a Congressional mandate, which required the machines to have new software to produce less-revealing images by June of this year. (See the photo above to see a before and after with the new software.) The software adaptation can't be developed in time, according to the Transportation Safety Administration, so the $40 million contract will be canceled and the machines returned to their manufacturer. Software adjustments were successfully completed for the millimeter wave scanners, which are already in about half of the nation's airports, and will eventually replace the backscatter machines. The reason I'm relieved that backscatter machines are going to be scrapped is because of their potential radiation risks, which radiation health experts expressed concerns about back in 2010 when the full body scanners first came to Logan and 29 other airports. Four radiation scientists from academic institutions sent a letter of concern to the White House questioning "the extent to which the safety of this scanning device has been adequately demonstrated," especially for frequent fliers who are going through them on a daily basis. The American Pilots Association told its members to opt for pat downs rather than risk the cumulative dose of radiation. | |
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The following images were photographed from aboard the Columbia Space Shuttle in 1986 and appear to show a black triangle high above the Earth's atmosphere and relatively close to the Shuttle.2013-01-24 17:00:00 This first one is archived here in NASA's online database, described as 'space debris' and as having been taken on the 12th of January 1986 while the object was over the Atlantic Ocean.
Mission STS-61-C was the twenty-fourth mission of NASA's Space Shuttle program, the seventh mission of Space Shuttle Columbia, and the last successful Space Shuttle flight before the Challenger disaster, which occurred only 10 days after Columbia's return (Wikipedia). Columbia, of course, later disintegrated upon re-entry in 2003. | |
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Roy Bragg
MySanAntonio 2013-01-24 16:52:00
For decades, politicians and law enforcement officials have expressed concern that South Texas is under constant attack. None of them, however, suspected the invaders would be spaceships.Two weeks after a series of UFO sightings over the Eagle Ford Shale, more weird stuff is going on in the sky between San Antonio and the Rio Grande. Three digital images taken Dec. 29 by an unattended wildlife camera on a deer lease near Nixon appear to show a series of anomalies in the sky and near the ground, says Fletcher Gray, deputy investigator with the Strike Team Area Research (STAR) unit of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON). The privately run group released the photos this week. Game cameras sit dormant and are only activated by a motion sensor, which means some form of wildlife - typically a deer - is in the camera's vicinity. | |
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The mysterious domed object was found in the skies by a woman looking for directions in the town of St Peters
A pink UFO has been spotted on Google Street View - the latest bizarre image to be found on the popular mapping service. The mysterious domed object was found in the skies by a woman looking for directions in the town of St Peters. Matching the popular image of an alien craft, the discovery has prompted much debate. St Louis news station KPLR asked Director John Lakey of St Louis' McDonnel Planetary Center for his views, he said: "That's almost certainly a lens flair effect. Yeah, it just looks like an artifact from a lens. "An alien space craft is probably one of the least likely things that an unidentified object would be, just because the distances between stars is just too vast for any kind of realistic travel. "It's a UFO, it's unidentified. By definition it's an unidentified flying object or some object that just, we don't know what it is." Last September a very similar pink object was captured in Jacksonville, Texas. | |
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Rebecca Everett
Daily Hampshire Gazette 2013-01-22 19:28:00
Amherst, Massachusetts - The Federal Aviation Administration says a military aircraft was flying over Amherst Jan. 8 when residents reported seeing a mysterious object flying silently overhead. However, a spokesman for an area military base said descriptions from town residents don't match with what he knows of the aircraft. Residents in the Amherst and Pelham area reported that between 5:45 and 6:30 p.m. a triangular or diamond-shaped aircraft - about the size of two or three cars, by one account - appeared to travel silently, slowly and unusually low over the area. | |
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Truth to power, from the 2011 stand-up show by American comedian Eddie Griffin, 'You Can Tell 'Em I Said It'.2013-01-24 07:39:00
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