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As media reports of workers heroically trying to head off multiple meltdowns in the smoking bowels of the stricken Fukushima Daiichi-I nuclear power plant played over scenes of thousands of evacuees fleeing radiation after Japan's powerful earthquake and tsunami, the global nuclear power industry was facing its own public relations meltdown.
Governments around the world are pushing the nuclear pause button: shutting plants for safety checks and reevaluating energy policy. Even staunch nuclear advocates on Capitol Hill are calling for a timeout on new US nuclear plants in order to learn lessons from Japan's tragedy. And American public support for nuclear development slid a precipitous 10 points – from 57 percent a week before the March 11 quake to 47 percent the week after.
Yet in spite of it all, nuclear industry observers say, Fukushima is unlikely to kill development of nuclear power in a world desperate for a clean – and unlimited – alternative to fossil fuel energy.
"[The Fukushima disaster] is going to slow things down, but not stop them," says Charles Forsberg, head of the nuclear fuel cycle project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, Mass. That, he says, is because there are few alternatives to provide the electricity the world needs.
The Japanese disaster, say experts, probably will slow deployment of new plants by increasing safety regulations, heightening public opposition, and vastly increasing the cost of capital to finance hugely expensive construction.
But, says Spencer Weart, former director of the history center at the American Institute of Physics and author of two books on nuclear power's emergence, "What history suggests is that, unless this crisis causes very widespread damage, the Japanese government, even now, may ultimately feel it has no choice but to go ahead with nuclear power.... [E]ven after Chernobyl, the Russian government went ahead to develop nuclear energy because they feel that when oil runs out they're going to need it."
Indeed, while nuclear energy provides 14 percent of the world's electricity, according to the World Nuclear Association, many nations heavily depend on it: France gets 75 percent of its power from nuclear technology; Japan, 30 percent; and the United States, 20 percent. And nuclear energy figures dramatically in China's soaring economy: It has 13 operating nuclear power plants and 27 under construction, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Ever since the atomic age dawned with the bombing of Hiroshima, nuclear technology has been fraught with promise and peril.
Nuclear power's big allure has always been the idea of cheap, limitless power – "electricity too cheap to meter," as one 1960s era slogan termed it. By the mid-1980s, however, nuclear plant construction cost overruns, nuclear utility bankruptcies, and the frightening, costly accidents at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania and Chernobyl in Ukraine had soured public opinion on nuclear power.
But in the past decade, the idea of a "nuclear renaissance" had bloomed as a clean, alternative to fossil fuels that might be an antidote to global warming.
And Americans supported the renaissance: After 25 years without a major accident, Gallup found 62 percent support for nuclear energy last March – the highest since the polling firm first asked the question in 1994.
Before Fukushima, more than 60 nuclear reactors were under construction in 15 countries – including, at the head of the pack, China, Russia, and South Korea. Other nations like Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, and the Philippines were lining up for their first nuclear plant.
Even respected environmentalists such as Whole Earth Catalog founder Stewart Brand and Greenpeace cofounder Patrick Moore had joined the "renaissance" as a last ditch effort to head off climate change.
"My views have changed, and the rest of the environmental movement needs to update its views," wrote Mr. Moore in 2006. "Nuclear energy may just be the energy source that can save our planet from another possible disaster: catastrophic climate change."
But as an exploding, burning nuclear plant in Fukushima spewed radioactive smoke on surrounding cities earlier this month, Mr. Moore was horrified. "I was quite upset by what I saw."admits the former antinuclear activist now employed by the Nuclear Energy Institute trade group.
Illustrating the pragmatism that experts say is likely to prevail over the long term, Moore still supports nuclear power: "I have not in any way lost my support for nuclear energy. What's happening is such a unique event, a tragedy.... Until a thing like this is over, you don't know what the consequences will be. I'm just hopeful if they do rebuild on sites like this in Japan that they will make sure it can withstand this type of tsunami.... I'm sure we will all learn from this."
He suggests the accident was due to freak coincidence: Emergency shut-off systems had actually worked and cooling systems would have, too, if the massive quake had not been so quickly followed by a tsunami that knocked out backup generators.
Though the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) doesn't explicitly endorse it, the group has adopted a "moderate" stance on nuclear power and echoes Moore.
"We understand nuclear provides 20 percent of our electricity," says Elgie Holstein, EDF director of strategic planning. "We're not calling for a wholesale shutdown of the American nuclear fleet in light of what's transpired in Japan. But we join other groups in saying we need to follow a very careful set of steps, to reassure ourselves that the regulation of nuclear power, our plants operations, are up to the best safety standards."
Yet, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), which is sharply critical of nuclear safety in the industry, looks to the Fukushima accident for lessons, since there are 23 plants with the same or very similar General Electric Mark 1 Boiling Water Reactor designs spread across the US.
Existing nuclear plants like California's Diablo Canyon and San Onofre, and others in active seismic zones prone to earthquakes will probably have to undergo significant review to ensure safety, according to the UCS. Even in less active seismic areas, recent analysis shows "slight increases to earthquake hazard estimates for some plants in the central and eastern US," according to a November Nuclear Regulatory Commission fact sheet. New nuclear plants are a much bigger question.
Just how fast nations plow ahead on nuclear – or back away – will vary by nation depending on its energy resources and its political systems, says Dr. Weart.
President Obama was quick to say that Japan's experience would not prevent the US from building new nuclear plants. Others echoed that. But even diehard nuclear supporters are pulling back at least a bit.
"I think it calls on us here in the US, naturally, not to stop building nuclear power plants but to put the brakes on right now until we understand the ramifications of what's happened in Japan," Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I) of Connecticut said on CBS's 'Face the Nation.' "
Fukushima has set off a flurry of review in Europe, for example. European Union member states decided to conduct stress tests for the impact of tsunamis, earthquakes, terrorist attacks, and loss of power on 143 nuclear plants. Switzerland will not renew operating permits for three of that nation's five nuclear plants.
Most dramatic, German Chancellor Angela Merkel – who last fall reversed the nation's phase-out of nuclear power – announced another "turnaround": The country will now create a timetable for an exit from nuclear power; and it shut seven of its oldest nuclear plants for a three-month safety review, with the possibility of closing them permanently.
In Asia, China is suspending approvals for new nuclear power plants so it can conduct safety checks on existing plants and those under construction. And Thailand will reevaluate whether to build its first new nuclear plant.
President Hugo Chávez said Venezuela would not pursue earlier plans for a nuclear station.
On the other hand, Sweden, with 10 reactors, reiterated its conviction not to scrap its reactors. And in Indonesia, where four reactors are planned not far from active faults, officials said the plans would proceed.
In France, with one of the world's most ambitious nuclear programs, parliamentary leaders demanded a study on "the future of the French nuclear industry."
But, says Dr. Weart, "France and Japan have no oil and not much coal. They are going to go ahead because they have to."
Indeed, France and Japan are heavily reliant on nuclear power because of strategic energy decisions caused by conflicts over oil, says Dr. Forsberg, of MIT. A major reason the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, he says, was to protect the supply of oil in Asia. France, similarly, warred with its colony Algeria in the 1950s and 1960s mainly to protect access to oil and gas in North Africa.
"People don't appreciate that some of [other countries' commitment to nuclear power] is based on major historical factors," he says.
Meanwhile, notes Weart, nations such as China "have centralized governments that tend to be able to go ahead without too many legal or regulatory impediments and without much concern for public opinion."
Perhaps the biggest hurdles to new nuclear power generation will not come from politicians, regulators, or a frightened public. Wall Street has refused to underwrite loans for any nuclear plant unless it has 100 percent of the loan guaranteed by the federal government. The Fukushima disaster means that the cost of borrowing money for such plants will be even higher, raising the question: Will nuclear power plants – at $10 billion per reactor – be too expensive to build?
Some observers are adamant that it will be prohibitive in the US, arguing that low natural gas costs that make gas turbines a cheap option, excess generating capacity, and very low growth in electricity demand will make nuclear too costly.
"Some in Congress talk about doubling or tripling the size of the existing nuclear fleet to face our energy challenges," Jon Rowe, president of Exelon, one of the nation's biggest utilities which owns several nuclear plants, said in a speech this month.
"Since these plants are not currently economic at today's low natural gas prices, the government would have to spend $300 to 600 billion to get these plants built," he says. "Congress should not expand the nuclear loan guarantee program beyond the current $18.5 billion already allocated" or extend tax credits.
Not exactly a ringing endorsement from one of the most likely buyers of a new nuclear plant. Others point to poor economic conditions and weakening public support as major hurdles to new plant construction.
"What this means is that the notion that we were about to launch a new era of nuclear plant construction will probably have to be reexamined," says Mr. Holstein, senior strategic director for the EDF. "That's not to say there isn't a future for nuclear in the United States. But their job just got a lot tougher."


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I know I've been MIA lately but hopefully next week things will be back to normal. To make up for my lack of posting, I thought I'd share 5 of my favorite photos from the welcome home ceremony since I haven't shared any yet.
All photos are courtesy of Nicole Middleton Photography.
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 70 diseños de 25 diseñadores freelance.
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CrunchGear points to this pretty amazing Duck Hunt NES zapper lamp that features not only a Duck Hunt lampshade and orange plastic zapper, but also a replica Duck Hunt cart made of cardboard.
Lamp creator fluffypants says that the typical cartridge wasn't large enough to be stable, so she created a 1.5 scale replica to serve as the base. Pretty neat, though I wish she had slapped on a mocking dog on the other side of the shade.
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Orange resident arrested for posession of crack cocaine
One man was arrested Sunday afternoon, after police found crack cocaine in a matchbox during a traffic stop in Orange.
According to a report from the Orange Police Department, officers arrested 21-year-old Romon Stephen Jones of Orange for felony three possession of a controlled substance when they approached him at the Gulf convenience store located at 333 Lutcher Ave. for a traffic violation. Officer Jason Laughlin reported Jones was "very nervous" and "visibly shaking" when he was approached by police. Jones gave officers consent to search his vehicle. As he exited the car, Jones grabbed a small matchbox, a container commonly used to store narcotics, according to the report. The matchbox contained several off white, rocklike substances assumed by police to be crack cocaine. Jones was taken into custody and transported to the Orange County Jail.


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Nero 8 Set for Oct Launch
Nero announced today the upcoming release of Nero 8, the latest version of the German software company's digital media suite. The media editing, burning, and backup software improves on past version with a slew of new features, including a re-designed interface, better integration with popular video-sharing sites, and optimization with Windows Vista, among others.
The biggest improvement to Nero's interface is the introduction of the newly-design StartSmart UI, which gives users one-click access to key features like burning and ripping. Users can also create media in next generation formats such as Blu-Ray BD-AV and HV DVD. Nero's improved online features include integration with video sharing sites such as YouTube and MySpace, giving users the ability to upload and share video with a single click.
Optimized for use with Windows Vista, Nero 8 also has various built-in features that compliment the OS, including Nero's DiscCopy gadget, which utilizes Vista's burning capabilities , giving users the ability to burn with a single click. Nero 8 also sees the introduction of live icons, letting users preview a file's content before opening, while the Rich Preview pane lets them access files from Windows Explorer.
Set for release on Oct. 1st, Nero 8 will carry a price tag of $99.99 on store shelves and $79.99, when purchased online through Nero's site. Discounts will also be available for current Nero users who opt to upgrade.


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Designed by Aldo Rossi, the first of his designs to be released after his death, it is a solid, pure and iconic geometrical form that evokes its author's architectural designs.
Born in Milan (1931-1997), he is considered by many to be the greatest Italian architect of the second half of the 20th century. His life as an architect started with Gardella and Zanuso. An author of abstraction, reduction and brevitas, his severe language of primary shapes, geometrical patterns and silent evocation created some of the most intensely poetic works of architecture and design in his age.


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This Guy Stuffed Almost a Kilo of Cocaine Down His Throat
Just imagine you're a 20-year-old guy wrapping up a Brazilian vacation, and you've got managed to fit close to a kilo of cocaine down your throat before heading to the airport. Oh, the raging parties you'll throw! And the money! And the ladies. But then you're kindly asked at the airport to submit to a medical scan. Via MSNBC's Photoblog, we learn that these images are of a 20-year-old Irish man who was arrested on September 12 at Congonhas airport in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
The man, identified only as P.B.B., was stopped whilst trying to board a flight outbound for Brussels with 72 bags containing almost a kilogramme of the drug inside his intestines.
It must have been really fun for this guy to have to shit it all out with a bunch of cops watching.
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15. Stem Cell Setbacks Inspire New Methods
The year 2006 — the 10th anniversary of Dolly the sheep's birth — began with a severe setback for stem cells' boosters. Some patients, scientists, and politicians had dared hope that cloning technology could be used to create donor-compatible stem cells that can help treat disease. But after learning that work by South Korean scientist Woo Suk Hwang had been faked, the journal Science retracted Hwang's landmark papers from 2004 and 2005, which reported the first human embryonic stem cells from cloned embryos.
Six months after the retraction, stem cell research received another blow. On July 19 President Bush vetoed H.R. 810, the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2005, which passed both the House and Senate by solid bipartisan majorities. The bill was put forth to loosen the restrictions Bush placed on human embryonic stem cell research on August 9, 2001, when he banned federal funding for work with any stem cell line created after that date. Since then, the vast majority of presidentially approved cell lines have proven unavailable, genetically abnormal, or otherwise difficult to work with. H.R. 810 would have allowed federal funding for work with certain stem cell lines created from excess frozen IVF embryos in the years since. (In polls, 60 percent of Americans disagreed with the president's veto.)
In the face of these setbacks, many scientists have focused on new methods of creating stem cell lines without destroying embryos. Traditionally, the process involves plucking the inner cell mass from a 5-day-old embryo known as a blastocyst (a round ball of 150 to 200 cells the size of a grain of sand), which destroys the embryo. In March however, German researchers — working in a political landscape even more restrictive than our own — reported turning sperm-producing cells from adult mouse testes into something very much like embryonic stem cells. A week later, U.S. scientists claimed to have done the same with human cells. In June Italian scientists announced the first human embryonic stem cells derived from parthenotes — embryo-like structures formed when an egg starts to divide on its own, with no sperm involved. In mammals, parthenotes are incapable of implanting in the womb to form a pregnancy and so are not considered potential human lives. Still, parthenotes can yield stem cells that closely match the genetic profile of the egg donor. In August Japanese scientists reported yet another method for making "personalized" cells without cloning: They treated mouse skin cells with four gene products active in embryonic stem cells and got the skin cells to revert to something much like the stem cells. In September a European team reported coaxing human embryonic stem cells from an "arrested" IVF embryo — one that had stopped dividing before it reached the blastocyst stage and thus died a natural death.
One of the biggest uproars followed a report from the biotech company Advanced Cell Technology (ACT), which described creating stem cells from a single cell taken from a 3-day-old, 8-cell human embryo. Single-cell biopsy procedures are done routinely in infertility labs and do not destroy the embryo, which "takes away the president's last excuse to oppose the research," ACT's vice president of research, Robert Lanza, told reporters.
Critics of embryo research responded with concerns that a biopsy might subtly harm an embryo, and wondered if even that single cell could have the potential to develop into an embryo and therefore a baby. They also attacked the company for a press release that claimed, "We have demonstrated, for the first time, that human embryonic stem cells can be generated without interfering with the embryo's potential for life." That release failed to mention that all 16 of the embryos used in these experiments had been destroyed. The ensuing controversy raised ire even on the pro-research side. "It's a big black eye if scientists are making false and fraudulent representations," Republican senator Arlen Specter, of Pennsylvania, told representatives of ACT during a Senate subcommittee hearing. Specter is a leading proponent of stem cell research and is currently trying to raise enough support for H.R. 810 to override the president's veto. "You made our job a lot tougher," he said.
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55. New Mouse Organ Found
Mice are the most common lab animal, dissected so frequently that no biologist expects to stumble upon a new organ. But in April 2006, Hans-Reimer Rodewald, an immunologist at the University of Ulm in Germany, reported that mice have two thymus organs — one of them somehow undiscovered — and that both can produce immune cells called T lymphocytes. Located in the neck, the newfound organ is a fraction of the size of the long-familiar thymus found in the mouse's chest.
"When we first saw this, I didn't believe it," says Rodewald. To see whether it was a true functional organ, his team transplanted the small thymus from normal mice into mutant, thymus-free animals. When they injected these animals with a protein from the hepatitis B vaccine, the animals produced an immune response. Biologists are checking to see if they have overlooked a second human organ too.
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64. HIV Precursor Found in the Wild
Researchers have long suspected that chimpanzees were the source of HIV-1, the AIDS virus, but proof from the wild was missing. A team led by Beatrice Hahn, professor of medicine at the University of Alabama in Birmingham, has now detected antibodies against the HIV-1 precursor — along with nucleic acids from the virus itself — in the scat of wild chimps. The HIV-1 progenitor appears to have originated in southern Cameroon, then made its way down the Sangha River to Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, where the first documented infections in people occurred.
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65. Gay Influence Found
Over the past decade, a handful of studies have hinted at a connection between male homosexuality and having older brothers. Now it appears that the key factor is sharing a biological mother.
Anthony Bogaert, a psychologist at Brock University in Ontario, set out to clarify the relative importance of biology and environment in determining sexual orientation. In a study of 944 men, published in July, he found that adopted brothers do not affect sexual orientation. Nor does it matter if a boy lives with his older biological brothers.
Bogaert estimates that one in seven gay men can attribute their homosexuality to having older biological brothers. Each increases the odds of being gay by one third. The base rate for homosexuality in men with no older brothers is estimated at about 4 percent, giving a man with one older brother a 5.2 percent chance of being gay.
"I was surprised that the effects were as strong as they were," Bogaert says. "What really hit home for me was finding evidence that there must be some kind of prenatal biological mechanism." The effect may be due to how a mother's immune system reacts to proteins produced by male fetuses—a possibility Bogaert hopes to explore in a future study.
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68. Moss Sex Points To Precursor of Pollination
Biology textbooks claim that the male moss mates by shedding sperm into a surrounding film of rainwater or dew — a haphazard strategy that arose in ancestral aquatic algae. But Swedish researchers announced in September that arthropods may in fact act as go-betweens. Such assisted reproduction was thought to have arisen about 140 million years ago, when insects began collecting and transferring pollen between flowering plants. It now seems that the tactic may have arisen far earlier, about 440 million to 470 million years ago, shortly after plants first colonized land.
Botanist Nils Cronberg of Lund University had suspected that mosses might use an intermediary to mate, so he designed a simple lab experiment to test his idea. He placed male and female mosses of the species Bryum argenteum in vials lined at the base with plaster of paris, which prevented the sperm from swimming. When males and females touched, fertilization occurred; when they were separated by a space three-fourths of an inch to one-and-a-half inches wide, it did not — unless mites and tiny arthropods called springtails were present to shuttle sperm between them. In a further experiment, the arthropods were allowed to choose between either sterile or fertile sperm-laden moss shoots; invariably, they chose the sugar- and fat-rich fertile shoots. "It seems that the animals are doing this because they get some sort of reward," says Cronberg. "This seems to be a phenomenon parallel with pollination."
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73. Electrical Signals Help Direct Wound Healing
In the mid-1800s, after wounding his arm, German physiologist Emil Du Bois-Reymond measured a small current at the site, which suggested that the injury triggered an electric signal. Since then biologists have made little progress in understanding where electricity fits into the myriad chemical and physical responses involved in wound healing. In July Min Zhao, professor of biomedical science at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, announced that electricity is the dominant factor.
Using an electric current, Zhao and his colleagues were able to direct epithelial cells (like those in the skin and in mucus membranes) both to and from wounded tissue in mouse corneas. In addition, they showed that the speed of the migration is in direct proportion to the amount of voltage applied. It is too soon to endorse experimental therapies that employ electrical stimulation, Zhao says. Rather, his next step is to investigate the healing properties of electricity at the genetic level. His team has already identified two genes that are key players in cell migration. Next they will look for molecules and genes that assist in sensing an electric signal and in mediating the cell's response to it.
79. Worm Lives Without Guts
Over the course of evolution, Olavius algarvensis, a bizarre little worm living in sediments along the Mediterranean, appears to have lost its mouth, guts, and excretory organs. Instead, it relies on several species of bacteria that live beneath its skin, forming a web of cooperative relationships with one another and with their host. In September Nicole Dubilier of the Max Planck Institute in Germany and her colleagues reported that they had sequenced the DNA of four of the bacterial houseguests, revealing intimate details about their quid pro quo with the worm. "They're providing energy production," says Edward Rubin, head of the federal Joint Genome Institute in Walnut Creek, California, where the sequencing was done. "They feed the worm, they get rid of the worm's waste." In return, the bacteria get housing and transportation. This was the first genomic analysis of such a complex symbiotic relationship.
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80. New Monkey Genus Found in Tanzania
Biologists added a new branch to our primate family tree this year. Genetic studies of the kipunji, a threatened monkey in Tanzania, reveal that it belongs to a new primate genus — the first to be identified in 83 years. The grayish-brown monkey, which is about three feet long with a distinctive "honk-bark" call, lives in a highland habitat that had largely been ignored by scientists. Fewer than 1,000 kipunji may remain. According to Tim Davenport, a biologist for the Wildlife Conservation Society, "had we not found it now, it could very well have slipped into extinction without the scientific world ever knowing of it."
Jennifer Barone
86. A Yeti Crab Discovered
A furry-looking crustacean discovered on the floor of the South Pacific Ocean at a depth of 6,500 feet is so unusual that it has earned itself a brand-new taxonomic family: Kiwaidae. The six-inch-long white crab is eyeless, and its claw arms are covered with hairlike filaments filled with what are most likely symbiotic bacteria. Joe Jones of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute codiscovered the crab — which he calls Yeti, after the mythical abominable snowman — while he and his colleagues were exploring hydrothermal vents using the submersible vehicle Alvin.
88. Super-Ants Fly by Force of Mouth
Hollywood may have run out of ideas about how to reimagine Superman, but nature has not. This year biologists published a study of super-ants that fly by biting against the ground so hard that they shoot themselves into the air. To generate the necessary force, they prop apart their large, pincerlike mandibles with a latch on their heads, tense their muscles, and release the latch. The mandibles then accelerate together at a terrific rate, like the sudden movement of a person's finger during a snap. High-speed 70,000-frames-per-second video analysis of the bites shows that the ants have the fastest self-propelled strike in the animal kingdom, beating even the snapping shrimp.
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91. Cancer Morphs Into New Life-Form
More than 20 years after University College London's viral oncologist Robin Weiss read about an odd, sexually transmitted cancer in dogs, he has turned up surprising clues about its origin in a canine ancestor hundreds, or possibly thousands, of years ago.
Similar cancer lines could exist in other animals, including humans, but Weiss expects that they are rare. Most cells from a foreign donor, such as in transplanted organs, are targeted by the immune system, but "this one has found a way to suppress the immune system of its hosts long enough to let it be passed along," he says.
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97. DNA Boosts Panda Count
A new census based on DNA analysis of panda feces suggests that there may be 3,000 giant pandas living in China, twice as many as was previously thought. Prior to this study, counting pandas was as much an art as a science: Pieces of bamboo in panda droppings were inspected for bite marks to distinguish individual bears. But nibbles from different pandas may look similar, so researchers tended to underestimate the population, according to conservation geneticist Michael Bruford of Cardiff University in Wales. "We are not saying the panda is out of the woods," he says, but with conservation efforts "the long-term prognosis is much more favorable for the future of the species."
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Chiefs Release DB Robinson, Sign WR Dressler
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - The Chiefs have parted ways with veteran defensive back Dunta Robinson, who never lived up to expectations last season.
They also signed Canadian Football League wide receiver Weston Dressler.
Robinson just finished the first year of a $13.75 million, three-year deal to provide depth in the Kansas City defensive backfield. But he only appeared in nine games and finished the season with 14 tackles. He was part of a defense that was torched by Indianapolis in the playoffs.
The move Friday frees up more than $3 million for the cash-strapped Chiefs, who were just below the salary cap at the beginning of the week.
Dressler has spent the past six years in the CFL, where he caught 442 passes for 6,531 yards and 43 touchdowns for the Saskatchewan Roughriders.


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The CUSP toolkit includes training tools to make care safer by improving the foundation of how your physicians, nurses, and other clinical team members work together. These videos reinforce the material presented in each module of the CUSP toolkit.
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Optimal Vitamin D Dosage for Infants Uncertain
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Newswise — In a comparison of the effect of different dosages of vitamin D supplementation in breastfed infants, no dosage raised and maintained plasma concentrations within a range recommended by some pediatric societies. However, all dosages raised and maintained plasma concentrations within a lower range recommended by the Institute of Medicine, according to a study in the May 1 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on child health.
Hope Weiler, R.D., Ph.D., of McGill University, Montreal, presented the findings of the study at a JAMA media briefing.
"Vitamin D is important during periods of rapid bone mineral accrual. Nursing infants are susceptible to vitamin D deficiency because vitamin D in breast milk is limited," according to background information in the article. "A supplement of 400 IU of vitamin D per day is thought to support plasma 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25[OH]D) concentrations between 40 and 50 nmol/L; some advocate 75 to 150 nmol/L for bone health. … the lack of well-defined recommendations supports the need for dose-response studies."
Dr. Weiler and colleagues conducted a study to investigate the efficacy of different dosages of oral vitamin D in supporting 25(OH)D concentrations in infants. The randomized clinical trial, which included 132 one-month-old healthy, term, breastfed infants, was conducted between March 2007 and August 2010. Infants were followed up for 11 months ending August 2011 (74 percent completed the study). Participants were randomly assigned to receive oral cholecalciferol (vitamin D3) supplements of 400 IU/d (n=39), 800 IU/d (n=39), 1,200 IU/d (n=38), or 1,600 IU/d (n=16).
The researchers found that the percentage of infants achieving the primary outcome of 75 nmol/L of 25(OH)D differed at 3 months by group (for 400 IU/d, 55 percent; for 800 IU/d, 81 percent; for 1,200 IU/d, 92 percent; and for 1,600 IU/d, 100 percent). "This concentration was not sustained in 97.5 percent of infants at 12 months in any of the groups. The 1,600-IU/d dosage was discontinued prematurely because of elevated plasma 25(OH)D concentrations."
Overall, 97 percent of infants in all treatment groups achieved the secondary outcome of 50 nmol/L or greater of plasma 25(OH)D by 3 months of age, with no differences among groups. This concentration was sustained in 98 percent of infants at 12 months.
Bone mineral concentration increased over time for lumbar spine, femur, and whole body but did not differ by group.
"Our primary objective was to establish a vitamin D dosage that would support a plasma concentration of 25(OH)D of 75 nmol/L or greater in 97.5 percent of infants at 3 months of age. Only the 1,600-IU/d dosage of vitamin D met this criterion; however, this dosage was discontinued because most infants in that group developed elevated plasma 25(OH)D concentrations that have been associated with hypercalcemia [higher-than-normal level of calcium in the blood]," the authors write. "Thus, the primary outcome was not achieved at 3 months, when plasma 25(OH)D concentrations were highest; all dosages failed except the highest dosage, which appears to be too high."
"Additional studies are required before conclusions can be made regarding higher targets or the needs of high-risk groups."(JAMA. 2013;309(17):1785-1792; Available pre-embargo to the media at http://media.jamanetwork.com)
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Editorial: Targeting Dietary Vitamin D Intakes and Plasma 25-Hydroxyvitamin D in Healthy Infants
Steven A. Abrams, M.D., of the Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, comments on the findings of this study in an accompanying editorial.
"The data reported by Gallo et al do not answer the question of what the target should be for plasma 25(OH)D concentration. If the target is 75 nmol/L or higher, then vitamin D intake of 400 IU/d is not enough for a substantial proportion of infants, especially those in northern parts of the United States or in Canada or who have darker skin pigmentation. … However, another question that needs to be answered is whether there are non-bone health reasons to target a plasma 25(OH)D concentration greater than 75 nmol/L. Answering such questions about non-bone health aspects of vitamin D nutrition can be accomplished only by rigorous clinical trials that include enough participants and establish clear outcomes before the study begins."
"Pending such information, clinicians can be reassured by the findings from the study by Gallo et al that a daily vitamin D intake of 400 IU/d in infants, as currently recommended, leads to adequate plasma 25(OH)D concentration for identified physiological functioning related to bone health."(JAMA. 2013;309(17):1830-1831; Available pre-embargo to the media at http://media.jamanetwork.com)
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Late-night fire heavily damages North Tahoe home
TAHOE VISTA, Calif. — A two-story home on Lake Tahoe's North Shore was heavily damaged by a fire late Tuesday, officials said.
The North Tahoe Fire Protection District responded to the residence on Nottingham Way in Tahoe Vista at about 10:25 p.m., after one of the residents returned home and found it filled with smoke.
By the time crews arrived, the home was evacuated of all occupants; no one was hurt, according to a fire district press release.
Several firefighters, engines and medic units from NTFPD, Northstar Fire, Truckee Fire, Squaw Valley Fire and the North Lake Tahoe Fire Protection District in Incline responded.
"Mutual and auto aid responses from our neighbors continues to allow us to provide the highest level of service throughout the region," NTFPD Chief Mike Schwartz said in a statement. "… Firefighters from all the responding agencies work together in a professional manner and with efficiency to extinguish the rapidly growing fire while protecting life and property."
The fire is believed to have started in the chimney, officials said. The cause remains under investigation.