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Friday, June 22, 2012
Nuclear waste: why environmentalists are suing NRC over reactor licenses
After a US appeals court ruled the NRC had not adequately evaluated nuclear waste provisions when licensing reactors, the groups are seeking to ensure the public has input on the process.
In this 2010 photo, steam rises from the cooling towers of nuclear reactors at Georgia Power's Plant Vogtle, in Waynesboro, Ga. A federal court has found that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has not adequately evaluated nuclear waste disposal provisions when granting licenses to nuclear power plants.
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EnlargeThe nation's top nuclear power plant regulator is being petitioned by environmental groups to halt all further license extensions for 35 power reactors nationwide until their on-site nuclear-waste storage systems undergo more in-depth environmental evaluation.
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The legal petition filed Monday followed a June 8 ruling by the US Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, which found that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) had failed to adequately evaluate on-site nuclear waste storage prior to granting license extensions.
The groups want the NRC to establish procedures for ensuring that members of the public can comment on the environmental analysis and raise site-specific concerns about the environmental impacts of highly radioactive spent nuclear reactor fuel in individual licensing cases.
The petition ?is not a request to halt or suspend any licensing proceeding,? or demand a chance in how the NRC reviews reactor lilcense applications in pending reactor licensing cases. But the petition does call for the NRC to suspend any final licensing decisions until it completes the court?s mandate.
Spent nuclear fuel produced by the nation's 104 nuclear reactors has been stored for decades in pools or casks at the power plant sites. Plans to develop a permanent national repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada were cancelled in 2010.
In its ruling the court concluded that the NRC's standard finding during the relicensing process that permanent nuclear-waste storage will be available ?when necessary? did not calculate the environmental effects of failing to secure permanent storage ? "a possibility that cannot be ignored."
The court also found that the NRC's finding that spent fuel could safely be stored on site at nuclear plants for 60 years after expiration of a plant?s license, "failed to properly examine future dangers and key consequences."
"The waste confidence ruling is a breath of fresh air because it is a recognition by the court that the emperor has no clothes when it comes to nuclear-waste disposal in this country," says Edwin Lyman, a nuclear expert at the Union of Concerned Scientists, a nuclear safety watchdog.
"The NRC and the industry have to come to terms with the fact that there may be no final repository for spent fuel for a very long time, if ever, and do a fair evaluation of the environmental impacts of indefinite long-term on-site storage in the context of both renewed and new reactor licenses."
Monday's legal petition by 22 environmental groups and two individuals calls for the environmental analyses ordered by the Court of Appeals to be "applied in each reactor licensing case before operation is permitted, and that they will be given a meaningful opportunity to participate in the decision-making process,? Diane Curran, an attorney representing some of the groups in the Court of Appeals case said in a statement.
In the aftermath of the ruling, nuclear energy industry officials expressed disappointment over the court ruling, but said it would mean process adjustments and should not unduly intensify NRC scrutiny or slow up relicensing efforts.
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Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Nikon D3200
The Nikon D3200 ($699.95 direct with 18-55mm lens) is the company's entry-level D-SLR, and as such offers a wealth of features that should appeal to photographers in search of their first interchangeable lens camera. The 24-megapixel shooter improves upon the 14-megapixel resolution of the D3100 ($699.95, 4 stars) and also provides full manual shooting controls for seasoned shutterbugs. It does well in low light, and offers continuous autofocus during video recording, but doesn't quite oust our current under-$1,000 Editors' Choice D-SLR, the Nikon D5100 ($899.99, 4.5 stars),?with its broader feature set including a sharp, articulating rear LCD.
Design and Features
Even though it dwarfs point-and-shoot cameras, the D3200 ?is quite compact for an SLR. The body measures 3.8 by 5.0 by 3.1 inches and weighs an even pound (sans lens), slightly smaller than the 3.9-by-5.1-by-3.1, 1.1-pound Canon EOS Rebel T3 ($599.99, 3.5 stars). Even though the included 18-55mm (27-82.5mm equivalent) zoom lens is small compared with professional telephoto zoom lenses, it feels larger than it is when mounted on the small camera.
The biggest advantage that an SLR has over a mirrorless compact interchangeable lens camera like the Sony Alpha NEX-F3 ($599.99, 4.5 stars) is its optical viewfinder. While you do have the option of adding an EVF to many mirrorless compacts, it isn't the same as looking through the lens. However, like most other entry-level SLRs, the D3200 skimps a bit on viewfinder quality. It uses a pentamirror design, which uses a series of mirrors to direct the light captured by the lens to your eye. Enthusiast and professional D-SLRs, like the Pentax K-5 ($1,249.95, 3.5 stars) and Nikon D800 ($2,999.95, 4 stars), use a solid glass pentaprism to redirect the light, which results in a larger, brighter image. If you're accustomed to a point-and-shoot, the D3200's viewfinder will be a huge step up, but old-school photographers may be surprised at just how small the finder is compared with classic 35mm SLRs.
If you have a stable of old Nikkor lenses that you would like to put to use on a digital body, you'll be happy to know that pretty much any lens manufactured after 1977 will mount on the D3200. Most, even those that support screw-drive autofocus, will be limited to manual focus mode only?the D3200 doesn't have a focus screw to support these lenses that lack internal focus motors. Couple that with the relatively small viewfinder, and you'll quickly realize that this was not a camera that was designed with manual focus in mind. If you have autofocus Nikon lenses without internal motors, you should consider the D5100 , since it includes the hardware needed to focus them.
If, on the other hand, you're a complete novice, you'll like the D3200's killer feature?its Guide Mode. Switching the Mode Dial to Guide brings up a colorful menu on the rear display that asks you if you'd like to shoot, review photos, or configure the camera. The Shoot menu is broken up into Easy and Advanced situations which feature presets for landscapes, close ups, low light portraits, fast action, and other common photographic subjects. This, along with select number of scene modes that live on the Mode Dial, goes a long way into configuring the camera to best capture the image at hand, without the need for encyclopedic knowledge of photographic technique.
The D3200's shooting controls are scattered about its body. The Movie Record, Info, and EV Compensation buttons are located directly behind the shutter release, and you'll only find a four-way controller, Drive Mode control, Exposure Lock, and Live View button on the rear of the camera. The button to raise the flash and control its output, as well as a Function button, round out the shooting controls?they both live on the front left of the camera, right above the Lens Release button.
Aside from EV Compensation, shutter speed, and aperture, which are visible in the viewfinder, you'll need to use the rear 3-inch LCD to view settings as you adjust them. The 4:3 display is quite bright and sharp thanks to a 921k-dot resolution, but it doesn't tilt away from the camera's body like that of the Canon EOS Rebel T3i ($899.99, 3.5 stars) or the Sony Alpha 65 ($999.99, 4 stars). Hitting the I button, which is located to the left of the LCD, gives you quick access to Image Quality, White Balance, ISO, Drive Mode, Focus Mode, AF Area, Metering, EV Compensation, Flash Compensation, and Flash Mode. If you need to adjust anything else, you'll have to dive into the full menu.
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Monday, June 18, 2012
Opel sees Bochum cuts costing 500 million euros: paper
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Humongous asteroid to hurtle past Earth Thursday (+video)
Some?1,650 feet wide,?asteroid 2012 LZ1 is expected to pass within 14 lunar distances of our planet, close enough to be caught on camera.?
A look at where near-Earth asteroid 2012 LZ1 will appear in the sky on Thursday evening.
Slooh Space Camera
EnlargeAn asteroid the size of a city block is set to fly by Earth Thursday (June 14), and you may be able to watch it happen live.
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The?near-Earth asteroid?2012 LZ1, which astronomers think is about 1,650 feet (500 meters) wide, will come within 14 lunar distances of Earth Thursday evening. While there's no danger of an impact on this pass, the huge space rock may come close enough to be caught on camera.
That's what the team running the Slooh Space Camera thinks, anyway. The online skywatching service will train a telescope on the Canary Islands on 2012 LZ1 and stream the footage live, beginning at 8:00 p.m. EDT Thursday (0000 GMT Friday) ? the time of closest approach.
You can watch the?asteroid?flyby on Slooh's website, found here:?http://events.slooh.com/
2012 LZ1 just popped onto astronomers' radar this week. It was discovered on the night of June 10-11 by Rob McNaught and his colleagues, who were peering through the Uppsala Schmidt telescope at Siding Spring Observatory in Australia.
Researchers estimate that the space rock is between 1,000 and 2,300 feet wide (300-700 m). On Thursday evening, it will come within about 3.35 million miles (5.4 million kilometers) of our planet, or roughly 14 times the distance between Earth and the moon.
Because of its size and proximity to Earth, 2012 LZ1 qualifies as a potentially hazardous asteroid. Near-Earth asteroids generally have to be at least 500 feet (150 m) wide and come within 4.65 million miles (7.5 million km) of our planet to be classified as potentially hazardous.
2012 LZ1 is roughly the same size as?asteroid 2005 YU55, which made a much-anticipated flyby of Earth last November. But 2005 YU55 gave our planet a much closer shave, coming within 202,000 miles (325,000 km) of us on the evening of Nov. 8. A space rock as big as 2005 YU55 hadn't come so close to Earth since 1976, researchers said.
Astronomers have identified nearly 9,000 near-Earth asteroids, but they think many more are out there, waiting to be discovered.
Follow SPACE.com senior writer Mike Wall on Twitter?@michaeldwall?or SPACE.com?@Spacedotcom. We're also onFacebook?and?Google+.
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Saturday, June 16, 2012
Whatever euro's fate, Europe's reputation savaged
LONDON (Reuters) - Whether the euro lives or dies, the chaotic way Europe has tackled the crisis could undermine the region's geopolitical clout for years to come and leave it at a distinct disadvantage in a rapidly changing world.
With an apparently never-ending series of last-minute summits and telephone calls, Europe's leaders and finance ministers have held the bloc together in the face of growing strains between states, a rising political backlash and market alarm.
But with hindsight, outsiders say each measure proved too little, too late. US officials in particular complain European leaders have either failed to grasp the scale of the problem or proved unwilling to countenance the awkward political decisions necessary to fix it.
As a result, they say, what should have been one of the most stable parts of the world has now become one of the most unpredictable.
At one extreme, the euro area might be about to embark on a journey towards further fiscal and political union as an almost totally unitary "super state". At the other, it could unravel and collapse into an unstable mess of regional rivalry.
"From almost every conversation I've had in the last year - with Chinese, with Indians, with just about anybody - the message is always the same," says Fiona Hill, a former senior officer for the US National Intelligence Council and now head of the Europe program at Washington think tank the Brookings Institute. "Europe can no longer be trusted. It seems to be moving from being a source of stability to a driver of instability"
Long-held certainties were being challenged, she said. Even non-euro member Britain suddenly appeared at risk of breaking up, with Scotland due to hold a referendum on independence that experts say could yet go either way.
The slow burning euro zone debt and banking crisis is accelerating. Last weekend brought a decision by euro zone political leaders to bail out Spain's banks. This weekend Greece holds a parliamentary election which many observers fear could spell the end of its euro membership.
Some argue it is too soon to write Europe - or the EU institutions - off altogether. Under foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, some credit Europe with making real progress in talks with Iran and other powers over the future of its disputed nuclear program. But their energy for anything beyond their immediate problems is seen decidedly limited.
"The Europeans are completely consumed with a battle to save the euro zone," says Ian Bremmer, president of political risk consultancy Eurasia Group. "It's a deep and ongoing crisis bigger than any they've experienced in decades... it's an environment where European leaders could hardly be expected to prioritize anything else."
That could leave the continent being increasingly sidelined as emerging powers - not just the BRIC powers of Brazil, Russia, India and China but other states such as Turkey, Indonesia and South Africa - grow in importance.
At the very least, it could undermine the ability of the continent's leaders to persuade the rest of the world to take them seriously on a range of issues, from trade to the importance of democracy and human rights.
"Europe probably isn't going to stop preaching to the rest of the world," says Nikolas Gvosdev, professor of national security studies at the US Naval War College. "But it's much less likely that others are going to be inclined to listen."
EUROPE AT CROSSROADS
At the Copenhagen climate summit in 2009, European states suffered the indignity of being outside the room when the final deal was struck between the United States and emerging powers. In the aftermath of the euro zone crisis, it's a position European leaders may simply have to get used to.
But for the rest of the world, it's not just the continent itself that is rapidly losing its shine. The whole European political model - generous welfare systems, democratic decision-making, closer regional integration and the idea of a currency union as a stabilizing factor - no longer seems nearly as appealing to other, still growing regions.
"Europe is at a crossroads, with the very future of the EU at stake," says Brahma Chellaney, professor of strategic studies at New Delhi think tank the Centre for Policy Research. "If the euro dies, it will mark the end of the European experiment in forging closer financial and political integration. But it will also have wider international implications."
Not everyone agrees what those will be, however. Chellaney argues the demise of the euro might help secure the primacy of the dollar - and therefore perhaps of the United States itself - for years to come.
But others believe a European collapse would be a sign of things to come for the US as well. Bharat Karnad, a colleague of Chellaney at the Centre for Policy Research, argues that whatever happens powers such as China are on the rise and that the West will be increasingly challenged regardless of what happens to the euro.
"The health of the euro or the EU, for that matter, will have a marginal impact on gold and power that is tending any way towards Asia, especially China," he said.
Washington takes the potential threat of Europe's unraveling very seriously. In the short-term, the Obama administration is clearly concerned over the electoral fallout should the crisis in Europe cross the Atlantic before November's presidential election.
But in the longer term, whether the euro survives or not US planners are beginning to face up to the fact that the continent will likely be poorer and rather more self-centered than Washington had hoped.
Washington has long been pushing European powers to take more responsibility for their own immediate neighborhood. While Britain and France took the political lead in Libya last year, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates complained European NATO forces were in fact almost entirely dependent on US munitions, logistics and other backup.
But the change in European thinking and the additional defense spending Washington called for now looks all but impossible in this time of austerity.
WASHINGTON WORRIED
"It's doubtful any future US Defense Secretary is even going to bother to make that kind of pitch," says Gvosdev at the US Naval War College. "We'd hoped Europe could take the lead in some parts of North Africa as well as the Balkans and Eastern Europe. That now looks very unlikely."
US planners were also waking up to the fact that European states were no longer likely to match US donor pledges when it came to humanitarian or financial aid for war zones and troublespots, he said. Then, there were longer term strategic concerns.
Washington's military "pivot " towards Asia, he said, had been based in part on the assumption that Europe would remain stable and wealthy and the US now had little or nothing to worry about on its North Atlantic flank. A weakened Europe could make US planners much less confident of that, particularly if China extends its influence.
Beijing has upped its investments in Europe in recent years, including major port projects in Greece and Italy.
Some political analysts contend the weaknesses and drivers behind the euro zone crisis go much further and can be found in most western economies - including the United States itself.
"The jettison involves essentially the ballast which used to provide stability to the vessel of post-war society," Jin Liqun, chairman of the supervisory board for China's sovereign wealth fund the China Investment Corporation, wrote on May 21 in Communist Party-run newspaper the People's Daily, making it clear he saw similar problems in the US.
Some waning of Europe's international influence was always likely, experts say, with an ageing population chewing up ever more resources and emerging economies inevitably growing faster. But the current crisis could supercharge its decline. Whether the continent's leaders realize that, however, is another matter.
"Europe's main source of influence (should) be the success of its political and economic model in providing high living standards and democratic freedoms," says Jack Goldstone, professor of international affairs at George Mason University near Washington DC "If the current crisis undermines both of those as well, Europe will look like a rather weak, badly run system of ageing and economically stagnant states. Irrelevance awaits." (editing by Janet McBride)
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Happy Father's Day to best (and worst) TV dads!
By TODAY.com staff
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Peter Griffin on "Family Guy," Jay Pritchett (Ed O'Neill) on "Modern Family" and Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) on "Walking Dead."
The good, the bad and the downright terrible.?Just as in real life, the small screen has its share of nearly perfect fathers and fathers of the worst sort, and each TV season brings a new crop of them. So in honor of Father's Day, let's take a look at some new(er) and classic scripted papas who deserve a little recognition -- either for their great parenting or lack thereof.
THE GOOD ONES
Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln), 'The Walking Dead'
Who?s a better dad than a gun-toting sheriff?s deputy who kills zombies to keep his wife and son safe? Certainly not that poseur Shane, who tried to fill Rick?s shoes in the bedroom and in the daddy department. He got what was coming to him in season two of the AMC series when things finally reached a breaking point with his best friend. And young Carl, Rick?s son, learned a valuable lesson about loyalty and leadership in the process. Some would argue that Rick and the gang of survivors might be better off some days if Carl had never recovered from his gunshot wound to the belly. Does that kid ever listen to his parents? At the same time, a timely death for Lori, Carl?s mom, might please viewers who don?t like the way she?s treated Rick. So Rick really is a great dad -- faced with a cheating wife and an annoying son, he?s still done everything he can to keep them from becoming zombie lunch. ? Kurt Schlosser
Jay Pritchett (Ed O'Neill), 'Modern Family'
?Modern Family?s? Jay Pritchett likes to pretend that all he needs is his bombshell Colombian wife, Gloria, and the memories of his high-school football career. Dig a little deeper, though, and the successful construction-supply owner is reveling in Spanish soap operas, dancing with granddaughter Lily at her dance recital and sharing life lessons with stepson Manny at the kitchen bar. While Jay pushes Manny to be the type of sporty stud he purports to have once been, it?s clear that Jay is really just a sentimental, loving father. Good luck convincing his kids Mitchell and Claire of that.?? Cody Delistraty
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Who's the best dad on this list?
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Rick Grimes
6%
185970
Jay Pritchett
16%
185971
George Altman
4%
185972
Don Draper
1%
185973
Dan Connor
14%
185974
Cliff Huxtable
59%
VoteTotal Votes: 1921
George Altman (Jeremy Sisto), 'Suburgatory'
Like many loving dads, super sweet George will always see his daughter as his little girl, no matter how smart and grown up and well adjusted she may be. The single dad -- although a tad overprotective -- ?always tries to do right by his teenage daughter, Tessa. Sure, he overreacts quite a bit (yanking her out of NYC and moving them to the suburbs after finding condoms -- not hers! -- in her bedroom, sending a neighbor to spy on her when he learns she's having a boy over while he's out), but his heart is always in the right place. And (very) slowly, he's learning to trust her and let her spread her wings.?? Anna Chan
Don Draper (Jon Hamm), 'Mad Men'
On the surface, Don's the coolest dad ever: He has a swank Manhattan pad and a hot young new wife. Of course, if you're his child, you might see these things as not very cool at all. And while Don is very much a product of his era -- distant, authoritative -- he's also clearly got a soft spot for his children, evidenced by the fact that he married his secretary after she proved she could handle them. Maybe not the most hands-on papa ever, but Don is a good one.?? Randee Dawn
Dan Connor (John Goodman), 'Rosanne'
Dan easily tops my TV-pop list. He's -- yeah, present tense (I'm pretending his series finale fate never happened) -- a hard-working, beer-drinking every-dad who sometimes loses his temper in a big way and spends a little too much time in the garage or parked in front of the TV. But more often than not, Dan fills the role of dependable family man (OK, just going to ignore that whole last season) and never leaves his kids in any?doubt of his love.?? Ree Hines
Cliff Huxtable (Bill Cosby), 'The Cosby Show'
No, the ?80s are not over, thank you. Not if they are the kind of decade that produces a dad like Dr. Heathcliff ?Combustible? Huxtable, who somehow managed to deliver babies, court his charming wife, sneak giant sandwiches and serve as the most loving and entertaining patriarch on TV. Living with Cliff as your dad was like living in one of Cosby?s famed stand-up routines (?Dad ... is ... GREAT! Give us ... CHOCOLATE CAKE!?) Maybe the best example came when son Theo thought he could move out, become a model and make big bucks, and Cliff organized the family to show him just how wrong he really was. Cliff played his landlord, Clair sold him back his own furniture, Denise charged him for leftovers and little Rudy played banker Mrs. Griswold, who torpedoed his chance at a loan. It was an entertaining and educational reality check from the best dad of the ?80s, and a dad who?d stack up nicely against any dad before or since. ?? Gael Fashingbauer Cooper
THE ONES WHO COULD USE SOME PARENTING CLASSES
Live Poll
Who's the worst papa on this list?
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Conrad Grayson
11%
185976
Anthony Cooper
23%
185977
Peter Griffin
55%
185978
Ari Gold
11%
VoteTotal Votes: 1154
Conrad Grayson (Henry Czerny), 'Revenge'
He might put a beautiful roof over your head, he might buy you nice cars or even pay for your townie boyfriend to attend your elite private school, but Conrad Grayson is not the guy you want to be calling dad. In the span of one season, Grayson disowned his son Daniel for not wanting to be part of his company (only to take him back, of course), turned his back on his daughter and had a hand in the deaths of at least three separate characters. And that?s just scratching the surface. It?s difficult to quantify general, day-to-day awfulness and spite. But if he were your dad, you?d better go big on the Father?s Day gift ? if you don?t keep him on your good side, odds are you?ll end up on the wrong side of the grass.??? Courtney Hazlett
Peter Griffin (voiced by Seth MacFarlane), 'Family Guy'
Selfish, childish and cruel, Peter is probably one of the worst dads to ever grace the television screen. At least Homer Simpson tries to do right by his kids every now and then (the saxophone he bought for Lisa and his love for baby Maggie, for example). But Peter? It's all about him and his wants, and poor teen daughter Meg is always the butt of his jokes. Reading your kid's diary for laughs? Not cool. Randomly shooting her when she says hello? Oh so wrong. Having to be paid to attend her 18th birthday celebration? Don't get us started.?? Anna Chan
Anthony Cooper (Kevin Tighe), 'Lost'
My all-time, bottom-of-the-barrel TV dad pick? John Locke's?kidney-nabbing father. Of course, conning Locke out of a spare organ wasn't even the worst of his deeds. He also left his son paralyzed after pushing him out of an eighth-story window, and the less said about what he did to Sawyer's parents, the better.?? Ree Hines
Ari Gold (Jeremy Piven), 'Entourage'?
It?s not just his former?assistant (later, agent)?Lloyd who took an emotional beating daily. Hyper-successful L.A. agent Ari Gold treated his wife and children to a barrage of misogynistic, crass comments that ?Entourage? tried to play off as ?good fun.? Sure, it may be funny when Ari's belittling Johnny Drama for his absolute lack of success or slinging previously unimaginable slurs at work, but missing birthdays, refusing to give his kids even a few genuine encouraging words, and that?s not to mention the phone call he takes in the series finale, well that?s not too fun. Even when he has the life so many men would envy --?spending a languid vacation with his super-hot wife in Florence, for example --?it seems Ari just can?t say no to work. It?s not to say he?s not somehow charming and likable (although it?s difficult to pinpoint exactly why), it?s just that a big smile and a ?Hug it out, b----? only work so many times. After that you?re just not a very good father. ? Cody Delistraty
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What was the Amazon like before Columbus?
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New evidence challenges the idea that the Amazon Basin was densely inhabited before the arrival of Europeans.
By Alan Boyle
The historical portrayal of the Amazon Basin's residents before 1492 has swung from the stereotype of backward savages to a vision of sophisticated stewards of the land ? but a newly reported survey suggests that wide swaths of the Amazon's forests, particularly in the western and central regions, were relatively untouched by humans.
The findings could play into the debate over the Amazon's future as well as its past.
""You can't use an idea of past transformed landscapes to justify modern deforestation,"?Crystal McMichael, a paleoecologist who analyzed Amazonian soil as part of her research at the Florida Institute of Technology, told me. McMichael is the lead author of a study published in today's issue of the journal Science.
She and her colleagues collected 247 core samples of soil from 55 sites throughout the central and western Amazon, in Brazil and Peru, to check for signs of human disturbance. Their objective was to provide a reality check for what some researchers have called the "1491 hypothesis": the idea that areas of the Amazon Basin were intensely managed centuries ago, but reverted to a more natural state after the arrival of explorer Christopher Columbus and his European brethren, due to the decline of indigenous culture.
One of the foremost critics of that view is Dolores Piperno, a senior scientist at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Piperno is a co-author of the Science paper.
"Drawing on questionable assumptions, some scholars argue that modern Amazonian biodiversity is more a result of widespread, intensive prehistoric human occupation of the forests than of natural evolutionary and ecological processes," she said in a Smithsonian news release. "Climatologists who accept the manufactured-landscapes idea may incorporate wholesale prehistoric Amazonian deforestation, widespread fires and carbon emissions into their models of what caused past shifts in atmospheric carbon dioxide and methane levels. But we need much more evidence from Amazonia before anything like that can be assumed."
The evidence from the soil samples, including samples taken from sites with previously known human impacts, runs counter to those assumptions. Most of the samples showed little sign of charcoal, which would have been left behind by land-clearing fires. There were few signs of silica deposits known as phytoliths, which are indicators of ancient agriculture. The researchers did pick up the signature of "terra preta" ? that is, earth enriched by human waste?? but mostly around riverbanks rather than far into the forest.
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Researchers Crystal McMichael and Monica Zimmerman collect soil samples in the tropical rainforests of Peru.
"Together, the data suggest that human population densities in the sampled regions were low and highly localized, and were not consistent with major population centers with associated areas of widespread, extensive agriculture," the researchers wrote.
The findings came as no surprise to Michael Heckenberger, an anthropologist at the University of Florida. Heckenberger is perhaps best-known for his study of ancient urban communities in the Upper Xingu region of the Brazilian Amazon, east of the areas surveyed by McMichael and her colleagues. His work was discussed in "The Lost City of Z," a best-selling book by David Grann.
"I was delighted to see the paper, because it does act as a cautionary note," Heckenberger told me.?
Heckenberger said the research fits in with the view that the pre-Columbian Amazon Basin had wide areas of forest land that showed relatively little human alteration, as well as areas that supported substantial concentrations of human population.
"This clearly has moved the debate forward," he said. "I hope we don't digress back to [a debate over whether] the Amazon was the setting par excellence for primordial forests and primitive tribes vs. an area that was dominated by large, complex societies. It's neither one nor the other. ... There were patches of dense, complex societies, and then there were other areas that were, if not completely untouched, then something very like untouched forest."
Heckenberger said he was "still of the opinion that as time progresses, we're going to find more and more of the Amazon that did support large populations." But he praised the work published in Science and said he hoped to see more sampling of sites from broader stretches of the Amazon Basin.
"I'd love to grab that team and bring them to my research site, to use that to some degree as a control against what you might expect," he told me. "The flip side of that is to jump into the pickup truck with that team and look for archaeological signatures in the area that they've been studying."
McMichael thought that was a fine idea. "He's done some excellent work," she said of Heckenberger.
She speculated that pre-Columbian tribes preferred to live near rivers rather than in the forest interior "so they could connect with other communities" more easily. She also suspected that the eastern side of the Amazon Basin was settled more intensely than the western side because it was drier and more amenable to forest-clearing. However, even if large settlements existed in some parts of the Amazon before Columbus, that shouldn't be used as a defense for 21st-century deforestation, McMichael said.
"The amazing biodiversity of the Amazon is not a byproduct of past human disturbance," she said in a news release. "We also can't assume that these forests will be resilient to disturbance, because many have never been disturbed, or have only been lightly disturbed in the past. Certainly there is no parallel in western Amazonia for the scale of modern disturbance that accompanies industrial agriculture, road construction, and the synergies of those disturbances with climate change."
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In addition to McMichael and Piperno, authors of "Sparse Pre-Columbian Human Habitation in Western Amazonia" include M.B. Bush, M.R. Silman, A.R. Zimmerman, M.F. Raczka and L.C. Lobato.
Alan Boyle is msnbc.com's science editor. Connect with the Cosmic Log community by "liking" the log's Facebook page, following @b0yle on Twitter and adding the?Cosmic Log page?to your Google+ presence. You can also check out?"The Case for Pluto,"?my book about the controversial dwarf planet and the search for new worlds.
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Friday, June 15, 2012
Romney: Obama 'long on words' 'short on action'
Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney gestures during a campaign stop at Seilkop Industries in Cincinnati, Ohio, Thursday, June 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney gestures during a campaign stop at Seilkop Industries in Cincinnati, Ohio, Thursday, June 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
CINCINNATI (AP) ? Mitt Romney on Thursday said President Barack Obama is "long on words and short on action" when it comes to fixing the economy.
Speaking in battleground Ohio, before the president's planned economic speech in a different part of the state, the likely Republican presidential nominee assailed his Democratic rival's policies.
"Don't forget, he's been president for three and a half years. And talk is cheap. Actions speak very loud," Romney said. "If you want to see the results of his economic policy, look around Ohio, look around the country."
"What he says and what he does are not always the exact same thing," the former Massachusetts governor said.
Romney addressed a crowd of about 100 from a manufacturing plant of Selikop Industries, the type of small-business facility that's become a standard venue for the Republican's campaign stops. He was in Cincinnati, a Republican stronghold in the state near the Kentucky border.
Romney's campaign had billed the appearance as a dueling event to the president's major economic speech at a college gym in Cleveland, in the Democratic northeastern region of Ohio. But what Romney delivered was his standard, 20-minute campaign speech, castigating the president for the economic stimulus, the health care law and for not approving the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada. Romney also criticized the president's policies toward China and said that, if elected, he would label the country as a currency manipulator.
Romney started his speech 15 minutes earlier than originally planned, which meant he finished speaking before Obama took the podium.
The last time Romney and Obama held competing events was in late May, when the likely GOP nominee visited the shuttered California headquarters of the solar energy company Solyndra and Obama welcomed George W. Bush back to the White House for the unveiling of his presidential portrait. Then, cable TV networks went with coverage of Obama over his challenger. On Thursday, both candidates' garnered broadcast coverage ? with Romney getting first dibs.
Romney strategist Stuart Stevens would not say if the campaign decided to start earlier to avoid a direct conflict with Obama.
Still, Obama's team was closely monitoring Romney's event in Ohio. "Threatening to label China a currency manipulator is reckless and unnecessary," Obama spokeswoman Lis Smith said in a statement after Romney's speech. She called Romney's positions on China a "campaign-year conversion."
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Associated Press writer Philip Elliott in Washington contributed to this report.
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Facebook, Google, Twitter spearhead Ads Integrity Alliance to thwart villainous ads
Online heavy-hitters Google, Facebook, Twitter, AOL (Engadget's parent company) and the Interactive Advertising Bureau have have struck an alliance aimed at ridding nasty advertising "from all corners of the web." Stemming from the existing StopBadware group that began in 2006, the group will develop policies, build a platform for identifying scofflaws and share trends with government and law enforcement. For its part, Google curbed 130 million ads promoting counterfeit articles, malware and worse in 2011, but said baddies would normally move their shady businesses to another corner of the internet. Thus, the aim of this new league is to aid players across the web with its super resources in a bid to stop the knavery, no matter where it tries to hide.
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Monday, June 11, 2012
How To Keep Away Those Wrinkles? ? Beauty, Health and Fitness
Wrinkles are inevitable. As we age, we develop wrinkles, age spots and discolorations sooner or later. There is nothing much we could do to stop the process. We can, however, delay the onset of the tell tale signs of aging by caring for our skin and incorporating certain lifestyle changes. Women also have the support of leading cosmetic companies formulating some advanced lotions to erase wrinkles and age spots from sensitive skin areas. Search the Internet and you would easily find a skin tightening cream for women from a reputed brand. It goes without saying that no woman is now alone in her war against aging and wrinkles.
Bear in mind that aging can be of two types. There is normal biological aging, and then there is aging that happens when the skin is exposed to excessive amount of sun light. Exposure to UV rays hastens the biological aging process and makes us look older than we really are.
If you are going out in the sun without proper protection, then you would surely develop fine lines, wrinkles, age spots, and uneven pigmentation. The obvious way to keep this effect to its minimum would be to wear a sun block with SPF 15, or higher. Such a sunscreen can keep your skin protected for a longer period of time. If you are not using a sun block or some form of protective clothing, then you might have to think about not going out in the sun between 10:00 am and 2 pm, when the rays are most intense. To combat the age spots and wrinkles that occur due to sun exposure, you could use a skin tightening cream for women.
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Bieber fans camp out in Mexico before free concert
MEXICO CITY -- A "tween" squatter encampment has sprung up in the chaotic Mexico City center as Beliebers seek to be closest to the stage when teenage superstar Justin Bieber puts on a free concert Monday evening on the capital's vast central plaza.
Dozens of mostly girls aged 10 to 14 travelled for hundreds of miles to camp Sunday along a street near the Zocalo, where tens of thousands of unrelated political demonstrators gathered and crews erected the concert stage.
Many of the young campers, dressed in Bieber's favorite color of purple and bopping to his music on headphones, were chaperoned by parents, some of whom took time off work to help their children miss school and be part of an audience expected to top 200,000.
The line of hundreds, which broke out spontaneously in chants of "Justin," seemed more worried about the giant cockroaches that roam Mexico City's streets at night than security, even as a similar free concert by Bieber in Norway two weeks ago caused a stampede that injured dozens of fans.
"We kill them so they don't get close to the girls," Elizabeth Noriegas said of the roaches as she waited with her daughter, Frida Coss, the 17-year-old president of the Official Justin Bieber Fan Club of Mexico City. Frida was first in line.
"Naturally we'd be worried about safety, but it looks like the government is taking the necessary precautions," said Monica Gomez, mother of Renata, 11, who will miss school Monday as she waits in line.
Authorities said they will have more than 5,000 police on hand for the concert on the Zocalo, helping keep order around barricades and checkpoints meant to prevent a dangerous crush of fans. Most will have to watch Bieber on a series of large screens set up near the plaza, rather than inside with their idol.
A city official, Hector Antunano, said fans in the encampment would have a first shot at getting in as recognition for the effort they have made.
He said the city was determined to prevent problems such as the crush that injured 40 Bieber fans at a free concert in Oslo, Norway, in late May.
"Most of the fans will be between 10 and 17 years old. There will be a lot of girls. We are being very careful that the majority of the police are women and we are taking precautions so that there is no rush toward the stage," Antunano said.
Leslie Bio, 13, her mother and three friends travelled 14 hours on a bus from the state of Sinaloa to attend the concert.
Justin "teaches us not to give up on our dreams," Leslie said.
Only a block or two away, the city was, as often, in political turmoil.
An estimated 90,000 protesters filled the streets with other chants as they marched near the plaza known as the Zocalo, where Bieber is to perform. Many were opposing the possible return of Mexico's old ruling party ahead of Sunday's final, crucial presidential campaign debate, and many planned to watch the debate on giant open-air screens in and around the plaza. Some were members of a new student movement. Others commemorated a 1971 massacre of young protesters.
City officials initially promised to close off the entire Zocalo starting Saturday night, but apparently dropped the idea. That would have blocked access to the symbolic heart of the nation, with the National Palace, the Metropolitan Cathedral and the partially excavated remains of the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan, all a few yards from where Bieber will perform.
Bieber fans stretched along a two-block stretch of sidewalk on 20 de Noviembre street as cars, trucks and buses growled by and the city's ever-enterprising vendors passed among their tents selling posters and buttons of the singer.
A similar concert in the Zocalo last month by former Beatle Paul McCartney drew 230,000 people, Antunano said, including President Felipe Calderon. There was no word Sunday on whether the president would take his family to see the Bieber.
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Sunday, June 10, 2012
Bill Maher Mocks Occupy Wall Street: Says Stop Camping, Start Participating (VIDEO)
In a segment that's bound to ruffle the feathers of some progressives, Bill Maher had some strong, sarcastic words for the Occupy Wall Street movement on Friday's episode of "Real Time."
His overall message: it's time to leave the parks and get in the game. After citing some upcoming OWS plans, including an event on July 4 that will "facilitate a visioning process" as well as a gathering of the OWS "guitarmy" (i.e. a guitar army), Maher explained what OWS' next step should actually be:
Instead of organizing interstate hootenannies, maybe it's time for Occupy Wall Street to actually participate in the American political process. That means, boring stuff like canvassing neighborhoods, raising money, running candidates for office, manning phone banks and making a baby with John Edwards.
He went on to explain why this new course would help OWS have a greater impact on the political process: "Three years ago the Tea Party was just a few hundred retired diabetics angry at blacks and gays for making them feel old, but now they have 62 seats in congress."
The Occupy movement has been criticized by many who otherwise support its basic principles for its lack of organization and reticence to actively participate in government, but Maher's statements, coming as they do from the left's leading satirist, could prove more influential.
Watch the full clip above and let us know what you think about the direction of the Occupy movement thus far and how it should (or should not) change moving forward.
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Friday, June 8, 2012
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Wednesday, June 6, 2012
A Swift Introduction To California Health Insurance And Pre-existing
It really is vital to have a look at a carrier?s insurance policies and constraints concerning pre-existing circumstances, waiting around intervals and exclusions as they?re able to vary from corporation to business. This can be just an outline in layman?s terms.
First?what exactly is a pre-existing condition. The official definition reads as follows:
Pre-existing Condition
Any sickness or health situation for which you may have acquired health-related assistance or remedy in the course of the six months before right here acquiring wellness insurance coverage. Team healthcare insurance policies address pre-existing circumstances following you have been insured for six months, and person insurance policies go over pre-existing circumstances right after you have got been insured for one calendar year. Reference CIC Section 10198.7. Creditable coverage should be counted in the direction of any pre-existing issue exclusion in both an individual or team policy.
Essentially, it?s a health-related situation, illness, or injury for which you just had treatment, are undergoing treatment, or have had treatment inside the past. The context through which an insurance coverage provider will look at pre-existing conditions strongly depends upon the type of insurance coverage.
Person and Family members California well being insurance.
This type of check here out coverage is medically underwritten which means that you?ll need to qualify according to health. Pre-existing conditions have the most effect here and it impacts protection in two methods.
Initially, you have to qualify for protection based on well being so a carrier can improve your rates or decline/defer protection completely depending on your pre-existing conditions. They ordinarily have underwriting recommendations specifying how they may possibly have a look at particular concerns. In the end, the underwriter (individual who decides to approve or decrease health coverage) tends to make the last click Here selection depending on information and facts identified within the well being software or health-related information (if requested).
For some concerns, the wellness insurance carrier could want a particular quantity of time away from the give situation before providing coverage. A general guideline is 6 months to one yr to get an additional uncomplicated scenario (basic broken bone, infection, etc). Some troubles are considered uninsurable for which they will not offer you protection actually.
If you are unable to qualify for person ? loved ones well being insurance in California, you?ll find alternatives for your uninsured by way of the State for instance MRMIP.
The 2nd way pre-existing circumstances can affect coverage for Person Household California wellness insurance is immediately after approval. If authorized for protection, there can be a waiting around interval for treatment (payment of) pre-existing conditions of as much as 6 months in case you didn?t have prior protection or lapsed protection for more than sixty two times. Basically, they?ll consider time on the prior certified strategy (could be person, modest group, short expression) in the direction of a six thirty day period waiting around period of time for pre-existing circumstances.
Tier increase with Person and Family members coverage.
If a carrier will not decline coverage depending on pre-existing conditions, they?re able to improve prices. Tier 1 would be the ideal price and also you can obtain this price whenever you estimate individual California health insurance. Tier 2 is normally 25% greater than this common rate. Tier 3 is usually 50% higher and Tier 4 is ordinarily 100% higher. Some carriers apply various improves. For example, Blue Shield of California features a Tier 5 that is much greater. This tier raise will not be locked in stone and also you may well have the ability to have it eliminated or lowered inside the long term when time has handed from the offered situation (assuming you happen to be in or else, good health). We advocate submitting the required modify of coverage form just about every 3-4 months till this tier enhance could be elevated.
California Tiny team wellness insurance coverage and Pre-existing circumstances.
Pre-existing circumstances are handled differently for Compact Team in certain essential ways. HMO?s are generally not topic to waiting intervals for pre-existing conditions. Maternity in California is ordinarily not topic to waiting periods for both HMO or PPO options. Usually, the six thirty day period waiting period of time is the exact same as person strategies. Often submit all claims through the carrier regardless and let them make the decision on waiting around periods.
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California legislation helps prevent carriers from excluding conditions a precise applicant may well have (if a lined advantage) upon approval as other states enable. This can be a combined blessing. On one hand, a brand new enrollee does not have to worry a couple of condition re-occuring and having coverage declined in the course of a time period. The downside is the fact that a person might be not able to qualify for coverage completely which defeats the objective of banning exclusions to begin with?The legislation of unintended outcomes. Preserve in mind this exclusion is only dealing with a precise person?s pre-existing issue. Some plans will exclude particular coverages (i.e. maternity, manufacturer title drugs) by design. A plan?s summary and clarification of advantages will checklist their normal exclusions.
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In case you have a laptop, you may have currently worked out how very easily the particular tips can put off the keyboard. If you take it with regard to restoration, your pc might have to become sent out with regard to repairs. Don?t go to all those plans when you can easily restoration the important thing yourself. It will take an amount of adjustment to have the important around the computer keyboard, but it is more preferable compared to spending to get this accomplished and to end up being without having your laptop for a long time of time.
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It might take a few minutes the very first time which you attempt to restoration a vital on the computer keyboard the very first time. Before you know it, you will end up a professional with it and you will not have to consider your computer to obtain a crucial substituted once again on your laptop. Avoid simply fixed the main element aside as well as lose it possibly. It could be very hard in order to type properly when you have a lacking key on your own laptop keyboard and finally it is going to cease working if you don?t repair the problem.
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In case you have a laptop computer, you may have currently figured out how easily the particular secrets may take off the key-board. If you take this for restoration, your computer may have to be sent out with regard to fixes. Don?t visit these measures when you are able easily repair the main element your self. It will take a little bit of manipulation to find the important within the computer keyboard, however it is more preferable compared to paying out to get this completed and also to be without your own notebook for a long period of time.
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It may take a couple of minutes the first time which you make an effort to repair a key on the computer keyboard the first time. Before long, you will be a pro from this and you will not have to consider your pc to get a crucial substituted again in your laptop. Avoid just fixed the important thing apart and also suffer the loss either. It may be very hard to be able to kind properly if you have a missing out on key in your laptop-keyboard and eventually it will stop working should you do not repair.
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For those who have a notebook, you need to figure out how to keep it through excessive heating. It is very important that the notebook does not obtain as well very hot otherwise you could put on the pc away long before their time. It isn?t challenging keep the laptop through excessive heating however you will find specific actions that you can follow to ensure your notebook last for a much longer period of time.
Here is actually preventing a laptop computer from excessive heating:
Change the laptop computer away when you aren?t utilizing it. This is one of the most essential things that can be done to help keep the particular mobile computer through excessive heating. If it basically being used, this really should not upon in any case. It will save your own electric bill but it will surely keep your computer through getting worn-out well before really period. Keep in mind that normally get really miss the laptop computer as well less difficult techniques the right issue and also transform it off when you are will be far from it for some time.
It may take a couple of minutes the very first time that you attempt to restoration a vital on the key-board the first time. Before long, you will be a pro with this and you will never have to take your computer
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