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A Massive Stellar Burst, Before the Supernova
February 6, 2013
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An automated supernova hunt is shedding new light on the death sequence of massive stars—specifically, the kind that self-destruct in Type IIn supernova explosions.
Digging through the Palomar Transient Factory (PTF) data archive housed at the Department of Energy's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), astronomers have found the first causal evidence that these massive stars shed huge amounts of material in a "penultimate outburst" before final detonation as supernovae.
A focused search for Type IIn SN precursor bursts, conducted by Eran Ofek of Israel's Weizmann Institute and the PTF team, led to this finding. Their results were published in the February 7, 2013 issue of Nature. PTF is an international collaboration that brings together researchers, universities, observatories and Berkeley Lab to hunt for supernovae and other astronomical objects.
The Causal Link
Massive stars—somewhere between eight and 100 times the mass of our Sun—spend much of their lives fusing hydrogen (the lightest element) into increasingly heavier elements, like helium, oxygen, carbon and so on. In the end, there is almost nothing left but an iron core. Eventually, that core collapses, releasing a tremendous amount of energy as neutrinos, magnetic fields and shock waves and destroying the star in the process. From Earth, this explosive event is observed as a supernova. If astronomers detect hydrogen, the event is classified as a Type II supernova. And if the hydrogen-emission line is narrow, the event is classified as a Type IIn (for "narrow").
In the case of Type IIn events, scientists suspected that the narrow emission line occurs as light from the event passes through a thin sphere of hydrogen that was already surrounding the star before it went supernova. Some believed that the dying star might have shed this shell of material before it self-destructed, but until recently there was no evidence to link such an outburst to an actual supernova.
That's where PTF comes in. For almost four years, the PTF team has relied on a robotic telescope mounted on the Palomar Observatory's Samuel Oschin Telescope in Southern California to scan the sky nightly. As soon as observations were taken, the data traveled more than 400 miles to NERSC—via the National Science Foundation's High Performance Wireless Research and Education Network and the Department of Energy's Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)—where computers running software called the Real-Time Transient Detection Pipeline screened the data and identified events for astronomers to follow up on. NERSC also archived this data and allowed collaborators to access it over the Internet through a web-based science gateway, called DeepSky.
On August 25, 2010 the PTF pipeline detected a Type IIn supernova half a billion light years away in the constellation Hercules. Shortly after, Ofek led a search of previous PTF scans of the same stellar neighborhood—using a high-quality pipeline developed by Mark Sullivan, of the University of Southampton—and found the supernova's likely precursor, a massive variable star that had shed a huge amount of mass only 40 days before the supernova was detected. They labeled the event, SN 2010mc.
"After NERSC tools found SN 2010mc, we went back through the archives and found evidence of a previous outburst in the same location and knew that it blew some material out of the star before the final supernova," says Brad Cenko, a UC Berkeley postdoctoral researcher and co-author of the paper. "We've seen evidence of this happening before, but there have been only one or two cases where we've been able to conclusively say when the previous outburst happened."
Ofek and the PTF team developed a scenario and tested it against competing theoretical ideas, using evidence from several sky surveys that were triggered to observe SN 2010mc once it was detected by the NERSC pipeline. They concluded that the "penultimate outburst" had blown off a hundredth of a solar mass in a shell expanding 2,000 kilometers per second, already 7 billion kilometers away from the supernova when it exploded. Earlier ejecta were detected 10 billion kilometers away, having slowed to a hundred kilometers per second.
After the supernova explosion, high-velocity ejecta passing through shells of earlier debris left a record of varying brightness and spectral features. The observations pointed to the most likely theoretical model of what happened: turbulence-excited solar waves drove successive episodes of mass loss, finally culminating in the collapse and explosion of the core. Because the stellar outburst occurred very shortly before the supernova, the astronomers suspected that the events were causally linked. Cenko notes that this could have important implications for what processes trigger a supernova.
"I think it is a very interesting object we found, and the way we do our survey and the search at NERSC made it something we were in the unique position to find," says Peter Nugent, a Berkeley Lab senior staff scientist and member of the PTF collaboration.
The Future
Once the team found SN 2010mc's precursor, the team used Sullivan's pipeline to sift through stellar neighborhoods in the PTF archival data where other Type IIn supernovae had previously been detected. According to Nugent, this exercise helped the team identify several other similar cases.
"Although the PTF project is no longer collecting data every night, we are still relying on NERSC resources to sift through our archival data," says Nugent. "This recent discovery shows us that there is still a lot that we can learn from the archival data at NERSC, and gives us some insights into how we may design future experiments to further investigate these events."
The project is supported by DOE's Office of Science and by NASA.
About Berkeley Lab
Founded in 1931 on the belief that the biggest scientific challenges are best addressed by teams, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and its scientists have been recognized with 16 Nobel Prizes. Today, Berkeley Lab researchers develop sustainable energy and environmental solutions, create useful new materials, advance the frontiers of computing, and probe the mysteries of life, matter, and the universe. Scientists from around the world rely on the Lab's facilities for their own discovery science. Berkeley Lab is a multiprogram national laboratory, managed by the University of California for the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science.
DOE's Office of Science is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States, and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit energy.gov/science.


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Any way OTHER than forums to get in touch?
So I had an issue fairly recently where I was having problems posting replies to my website forums. It wasn't a one off .. it occurred sporadically over the course of several days before starting to impact others .. I noticed at least one person giving additional information on an application also having similar problems.
I tried reporting it here, on the support forums, several times over the course of a couple of days, but was unable to post anything at all.
I sent an email to the support address but received no reply. (I have had replies in the past, and haven't changed my details since then, so you should have been able to reply).
I sent a DM via your facebook page a week ago, and have had no reply.
We no longer appear to have the "chat bubble" on our website so cannot use that.
It does appear to have sorted itself out now and, luckily, it didn't seem to cause any major issues for anyone else, but it has highlighted the fact that support seems a little spotty these days.
Should we be concerned?
We did have an issue where an underlying service had gone offline without us noticing at first that caused several weird issues like the ones you described. We got that figured out and fixed and you shouldn't be seeing those issues anymore! Let us know if anything like that keeps happening.
Will do.
Of course the original question still remains (and primarily because I've had issues before trying to post stuff on the support forums, so it's nice to have options and, if that same issue does happen again .. lol .. I'd struggle to let you know) - does anyone monitor the likes of facebook messages or emails?
Once upon a time I'd at least get an auto-reply saying that my email was being looked at, even if I didn't get a reply itself, but I don't even get those anymore. I've checked my spam folders.

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There have been a dizzying number of high-profile data breaches in recent months, and now we have one more to add to the growing list.
Health Share of Oregon is a Medicaid Coordinated Care Organization. They recently disclosed that they lost control of health and personal information belonging to more than 650,000 people.
The root cause in this case wasn't an elaborate hack. One of their employees had a laptop computer stolen while making use of a third-party vendor responsible for non-emergent medical transportation.
Health Share has begun the daunting task of sending out letters to every patient who had their information compromised. They're offering a free year of identity monitoring, credit monitoring, fraud consultation and identity theft restoration. That is pretty standard fare in situations like these, but also small comfort for those who have been impacted. In addition to the individual patient contact letters, the company also released a statement.
Their statement reads, in part, as follows:
"Though the theft took place at an external vendor, we take our members' privacy and security very seriously. Therefore, we are ensuring that members, partners, regulator, and the community are made fully aware of this issue."
The company also tried to reassure impacted individuals by letting them know that their personal health histories were not exposed.
That's a good thing, but the data that was stolen was extensive. It included members' names, addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, Medicaid ID numbers, and Social Security numbers. All that is more than enough information to steal 650,000+ identities.
Health Share has set up a toll-free call center, open Monday through Friday from 8:00am to 5:30pm. The service is available to any impacted individuals with questions or concerns, which is a fantastic additional step we don't often see when things like this happen. Now, if only it hadn't happened in the first place.


text: Washington, D.C. -- A report released Thursday by Bloomberg said that consumer confidence reached its highest level in 10 weeks, thanks to falling gas prices and despite a 9.1% unemployment rate.The Bloomberg Consumer Comfort Index increased to minus 43.9 for the period ended June 26, after dropping to minus 44.9 the prior week. According to the report, falling fuel costs are reducing consumer stress."Falling retail gasoline prices, which should free up approximately $42 billion in discretionary income, likely bolstered the outlook of consumers," said Joseph Brusuelas, senior economist at Bloomberg LP in New York. Cheaper fuel "may provide needed support for consumer confidence at a time when sluggish demand in the labor market is clearly depressing overall sentiment," he added.


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MARQUETTE, Mich.—Northern Michigan University will host a Your Wealth lecture titled "Canada's Incredible Turnaround: What the United States Can Learn from Its Northern Neighbor." The event will be held at 3 p.m. Monday, Nov. 12, in Mead Auditorium in the West Science Building. It is free and open to the public.
Canada is among the top five most economically free countries in the world, according to the Fraser Institute's annual report. It is well ahead of the United States, which has fallen to 18th overall. Niels Veidhuis, president of the Fraser Institute and co-author of the award-winning The Canadian Century, will explain how Canadians cut government spending, reduced tax rates and balanced budgets while U.S. politicians expanded government.
The Your Wealth Lecture Series is a collaboration of NMU's College of Arts and Sciences, Center for Economic Education and Entrepreneurship, Students for Liberty and Economics Student Association.


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The coal industry is notoriously hard on vehicles and equipment. In West Virginia, where all four seasons are harsh and unforgiving, maintenance crews on coal jobsites face a variety of dirt, dust and grime that few environments can match. To keep their equipment up and running, these maintenance crews need every advantage they can get.
So when a longtime Donaldson coal mining customer in Charleston, West Virginia, claimed to have one of the longest-running engines in the industry – 51,000 hours of work without a rebuild or major repairs, the equivalent of almost six years of continuous work – we were amazed and proud to learn from the company's maintenance manager that they attributed that longevity in large part to exclusively running their equipment with Donaldson filters. (This customer asked us not to use their name so as not to divulge any trade secrets – but they did want us to tell their story).
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According to the maintenance director at this mine site, a MTU 4000 Series engine has seen nearly nine consecutive years of use in one Haul Truck with virtually no downtime other than scheduled maintenance. This has been a major advantage to their operation, where efficiency and reliability play such a vital role.
"We know the coal industry is highly competitive right now," said Angelo. "If you're operation is not efficient and cost conscious, you fall behind quickly. Our mining customers are finding that Donaldson filters provide the highest filtration efficiency and lowest maintenance costs – which is a real advantage in an industry where margins are under constant pressure."
While this coal producing customer uses a full range of Donaldson filters, the stars of this story are the Donaldson Blue® extended-service air filters. These filters, which include Donaldson's proprietary Ultra-Web® fine fiber media, are designed specifically for extended filter maintenance programs and deliver better engine protection, minimized equipment downtime and reduced long-term operating costs for fleets. If this off-road equipment success story is any indication, Donaldson Blue filters do exactly what is intended, and then some.
"In the ever-changing West Virginian environment, effective air filtration is a must," says Joseph Serrenho, Donaldson Senior Territory Manager. "In dry conditions, the dirt and coal dust are ever-present. But even in wet or snowy conditions, the combined exhaust from the jobsite equipment blows down on the hard-packed roads and creates a dust mixture that can be deadly for engines." This abrasive mixture can destroy an engine in a matter of hours if the air filter fails. According to this Donaldson customer, not one engine has been dusted in the 20 years the company has used Donaldson filters.
The typical MTU Series 4000 engine provides 25,000 to 30,000 hours of service in the coal industry. Many off-road engine owners find it easier to completely replace an aging engine than to overhaul or make regular repairs, so when an engine reaches that 30,000-hour mark, the maintenance team automatically orders a replacement. For this particular customer, the replacement for the company' "star" engine has been sitting in storage for more than four years. "They've been waiting for the engine to fail," says Angelo, "But it just keeps going!"
In fact, it is believed that the 51,000-hour outlier is one of the longest-running engines in the industry. In addition to the use of high-quality Donaldson filtration products, a fully integrated maintenance program is also credited for the long life of the record breaker. But it's not just a single engine that Donaldson and this mine's maintenance team hang their hats on. The operation boasts four Series 4000 engines that have clocked well over 40,000 hours of use and a number of others that have already far exceeded 30,000 hours of service. Overall, the team maintains 90 percent availability in the fleet, an important benchmark in an industry where margins are tighter than ever before.
Because those margins are razor-thin, this mine's maintenance team finds that Donaldson Blue air filters also save when it comes to replacements. With standard cellulose air filters, a typical maintenance team would expect to swap out filters three to four times per year per vehicle. The efficient Donaldson Blue filters used on this customer's haul trucks have lasted up to a full year, cutting maintenance downtime and filtration costs by up to 75 percent.
"When our customer realized the value in using Donaldson Blue air filters in engines like the Series 4000, they didn't hesitate to make minor modification to a pair of excavators so they, too, could accept the latest Donaldson Blue filters," said Serrenho.
"This major coal mining operation moves 3 million tons of coal with more than 80 pieces of major equipment every year", says Angelo. "We're happy to play a part in the success of such a hard working company. When we see this type of success and we recognize that we've helped a customer to achieve such great heights – it's what motivates us to help each customer achieve more."


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Top Ten Architectural Problems in all of Eclipse
Introduction and Purpose of this Document
Ok, maybe more, maybe less than 10, but the purpose of this page is for AC members to begin to articulate what we as a group think the architectural problems are in Eclipse. At first, this page will have a form of "online brainstorming" ... anything can be listed ... but over the next few weeks, we'll polish, refine, categorize and abstract issue to the "root" problem. Then, during the January meeting, we'll discuss them more and priorities them and hopefully get commitments from within our group to work on them.
At our 12/14/2006 phone meeting, we agreed that Eclipse Architectural Problems were:
- Some issue or difficulty (or, perhaps some opportunity) that spans more than 2 projects. Issues that exist between only two projects is not large enough to justify our investment in it, since presumably those two project could solve it themselves.
- It has to be a problem where the people or projects calling it a problem all agree that they would be willing to work on solving it -- in some capacity, documenting use cases, creating designs, reviews, tests, or, hopefully even code submitted in bugzilla as patches!
Top X Opportunities
- 'Source goes with plugins, not features.' Currently, "source" is associated with features, instead of the plugin they directly relate to. This is architecturally wrong and often complicates proper componentization. In the best case, if someone wanted to "recombine" plugins into new features, they have to create twice as many features, one for the code (runtime) and another for the SDK (source). Plus, one much needed user scenario is that someone should be able to install only the runtime of many features, but then as their interest and debugging needs change they should be able to say "just install the source for these 3 plugins that are causing me trouble ... not all 250". As it is now ... how many people would even know how to trace back which features those plugins came from, then which project, then go hunt up which SDKs they wanted, likely being forced to install much more than they really needed.
- What's an API? How should we (our projects) specify and test their API's and our use of others API's. There is currently, I think, several methods and several tools, some nicely built in to the PDE or JDT ... some built in to build processes. The strategy and details of these definitions seem uncoordinated and many are not well educated in their use.
- Java. The architecture and the concept of many projects and the platform is Java oriented. Is that right? shouldn't we make it more generic? Is it right that JDT is part of the basic Eclipse?
- Entire Eclipse architecture - relations, dependencies. We're missing that. Is it possible to create one big diagram that summarize it? This will give a new user/committer the opportunity to understand the big picture.
- The eclipse Project model and nested projects: when developers lay out the directory structure on non-eclipse projects, they often use a tree where some directories represent projects. Those projects are "nested". This is also often related to the way the files are stored in a configuration management system. Unfortunately eclipse does not really support this real-world setup [bug 35973]


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Dec 22, 2017
Monts and Nuge, the original geeks, are finally back in the Geek Syndicate house.
In this episode Monts tries to learns the ways of the Nuge side and comes up a little short.
The lads are not happy with the petition to remove The Last Jedi from Canon.
Week that was
The Last Jedi - a none spoiler review from Nuge...
Dec 22, 2017
After seven years and with unfortunate poor sound quality the quarrelsome twosome bow out for a final episode with With listen feedback, subjects not covered and recommendations.
We're still around on facebook and twitter, so feel free to follow us at @DissectingWrlds and @thegrampus
The end. That's your lot. Take...
Dec 22, 2017
After the usual news Steve and Scott talk about their highlights of 2017 in Cinema, TV, Games and Books. It's been a great year, and there should be something here to appeal to everyone. This is the last Grouchy Old Geeks of 2017, so have a great xmas, a prosperous new year and we'll see you all in 2018.
Dec 15, 2017
This is Bags of Action. The podcast devoted to action movies, both old and new, but all of them are awesome! In this episode Steve and Pete talk about the 2016 film, Deadpool starring Ryan Reynolds. This is the first superhero film they've done and it is one unlike any other. Full of jokes, packed full of action, it is...
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Peter Jensen, VK2AQJ, has done a wonderful job of re-creating one of the versions of the set and in tracing the history of these interesting rigs. The simple design uses three metal valves and the receiver covers about 3.2 to 8MHz.
Peter is a wonderful speaker and I understand has published at least one book which I'll track down.
I bought a little bit of junk for the shed today although there is lots to temp me in the Dural disposals room.
Thanks as always to the organisers and it was great to have Mal, VK2BMS, along for the day.


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My friends keep swearing I'm a geek. Mostly because they all are. And I'm talking full on, I-can-take-this-computer-apart-down-to-it's-chips-and-put- it-back-together-again-so-that-it-runs-faster geeks. Geeks who are so damned good they could re-write Linux and it would be better, AND they could do it in less than a week. True, caffeine molecule wearing, hAx0r hating, reading the code specs for fun geeks.
And then there is me. I can't even figure out how to install a printer on my mac. Sure I can write java code (or perl, C, and maybe a little php) until the cows come home, but that's it. Ask me to configure a piece of hardware or low level software, and I panic. The compulsion to run to the medicine cabinet and down 3 xanax with a beer overcomes me.
So I present to you (because i have nothing interesting photographed) the top 10 reasons why I am not a geek.
10. I hate video games. I mean, come ON BOOOOORING. I want to shoot people in real life, at least with a lazer gun. My husband and my friends were playing this game on line, and all I could think was "What is the point of mining shit in a virtual outer space? As if your day job isn't boring enough, lets come home and pretend to be blue collar workers! Now that's my idea of a good time baby." NOT.
9. I don't own a single article of clothing with an operating system logo on it. I mean, really, what *IS* the difference between RedHat and Ubuntu. And while we're at it, what the hell is KDE and Gnome? I'm so confused.
8. My webpages don't have a black background. Oh, and they have some thought to them. Not just the boring ass default monospace font in white on a black background. I HATE the black background. I even have my Terminal set up with a white background at home. So there.
7. Mac is better than Linux. Why? because I don't have to install it.
6. My monitor is a measly 17″ and that's just fine with me. I really don't need the wrap around screen with the chair of doom in the center. So that I can turn around when those less worthy than me enter my cubicle and give them the evil eye over my steepled fingers, a la, Mr. Burns.
5. I don't have a rear-view mirror on my monitor at work, and I sit w/ my back to the door. No self respecting geek would do that. They're all too paranoid that the boss man will walk in while they're ripping the company's software to shreads and starting all over again.
4. I can find the top of my desk. Easily.
3. For the life of me I can't stay up past 10pm or sleep beyond 8am in the morning. It's probably my measley caffiene intake. I should really up that.
2. I know nothing about processor speeds or gigahertz or whatever it is that makes one computer better than the other.
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1. Would a geek make something like this?


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We see fancy storage devices today, but the storage was never like this in past. It consumed whole room to just store kilobytes of Data but today, a tiny Flash Disk can store huge volume of data. Here is the Evolution of Hard Drive and storage devices;
The punch card
A punch card was once the basis for digital information used for computer programs and data storage. They were widely used throughout the first half of the 20th century in processing machines to input data and to store it. Punch cards could be fed into the first commercial computer, IBM 305 system, which then stored the data on hard disks.
IBM 350 disk storage unit
The 350 Disk Storage System was a major component of the IBM 305 RAMAC (Random Access Method of Accounting and Control) system, which was introduced in September 1956. It consisted of 40 platters and a dual read/write head on a single arm that moved up and down the stack of magnetic disk platters. Those 40 platters stored a whopping (for the time) 5MB of data.
Introduced in 1956, the IBM 305 RAMAC (Random Access Method of Accounting and Control) was an electronic general-purpose data processing machine that maintained business records on a real-time basis. The 305 RAMAC was one of the last vacuum tube systems designed by IBM, and more than 1,000 of them were built before production ended in 1961. The system took up the better part of an entire room and required three administrators to run it.
IBM magnetic disk
The magnetic disk invented by IBM in the early 1950s contained 100 concentric tracks on each side. Each track stored 500 alphanumeric characters, yielding a total storage capacity of 5 million characters. This disk enabled users to retrieve any piece of information directly in less than a second.
IBM 650 magnetic drum
This 16-inch-long drum spun at 12,500 revolutions per minute to provide the IBM 650 computer of the mid-1950s with 10,000 characters of main memory. Data was magnetically encoded on 40 tracks around the drum.
IBM 1311 hard drive
The drive system, which shrunk storage technology from the size of a refrigerator to the size of a washing machine, had six 14-inch platters and contained a removable disk pack that had a maximum capacity of 2.6MB of data. The 1311 lived on through the mid-1970s.
IBM 1301 removable storage unit
Only two years after creating the RAMAC 305, IBM released the 1301, the first storage system that used "flying heads" on actuator arms to read and write data to its 50 24-inch magnetic platters. The 1301's head and actuator arm assembly looked something like a bread-slicing machine turned on its side because each drive platter had its own read/write head.
From 1979 through today
From 1979 through today: Six hard drives beginning with an 8-inch model, followed by 5.25-inch, 3.5-inch, 2.5-inch, 1.8-inch, and 1-inch disks, partially disassembled to show platters and read-write heads.
16MB Hitachi Microdrive
Microdrives spurred greater innovation in handheld devices, such as Apple's iPod. When the iPod was first released in 2001, it had a 1.8-inch hard drive with 5GB of capacity. By 2006, the iPod was equipped with a microdrive that held 160GB.
The USB flash drive
Solid-state storage, or NAND flash, is quickly usurping hard disk drives as the medium of choice for personal mobile storage. This Pico mini flash drive from SuperTalent holds 8GB of data. Today, however, USB drives the size of a pack of gum hold up to 256GB of data.
From 1956 to 2010
In 1956, the RAMAC 305 stored 5 million characters. Today, hard drives stores as much as 3TB of data, and solid-state technology is quickly approaching a terabyte of capacity in a single drive.
Now Storage is in every device and Hard Disk and Storage device requirement is almost in every device.


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Unlike domestic dogs and cats, a rabbit's teeth never stop growing and can grow nearly 2mm a week. Wild rabbits adapt for this growth by chewing daily on coarse grass and other vegetation that helps to wear down the crowns of their teeth. Pet rabbits are not typically offered access to the same type of vegetation and often consume dry pellets as the bulk of their diet.
Domestic rabbits also receive less sunlight when compared to wild rabbits. Sunlight helps with vitamin D production. The vitamin enables the absorption of calcium from food for the proper development of the jaw and teeth. A lack of vitamin D can lead to teeth not growing and maturing correctly, leading to malocclusions and dental problems.
As a rabbit owner, you can keep an eye out for dental disease, as well as learn ways to keep your rabbit's teeth healthy throughout its life.
Dental disease in rabbits
The best way to diagnose dental disease in rabbits is to have your vet perform a thorough oral examination and take x-rays to see the tooth roots below the gum line. Through this procedure, your vet can discover a condition called malocclusion. When a rabbit's jaw is not aligned correctly due to malocclusion, its incisors become long, making it difficult for your rabbit to chew. Rabbit's teeth can be examined with them awake, but if there are problems, the only way to thoroughly examine the back molars is under anaesthetic.
As the tooth crowns grow longer inside the mouth, the top and bottom teeth hit as the rabbit chews, putting pressure on tooth roots below the gum line and creating gaps between the teeth and gums. Bacteria can become trapped in these gaps, leading to the infection of teeth roots and the formation of jaw abscesses. It is also quite common for the incorrect movement of the jaw to cause sharp spikes on the teeth which can lacerate the tongue and cheeks.
Some other signs rabbit owners should look out for are salivation and a wet chin, decreased appetite, overgrowth of front teeth from lack of wear, or discharge from the eyes due to compression of the tear ducts from overgrown tooth roots.
How to care for your rabbit's teeth
Your rabbit's teeth should be checked regularly by your vet. Rabbit owners should also do the following:
- Monitor your rabbit for signs of dental disease, like selective appetite, salivation, eye discharge or jaw swelling
- Pet rabbits should have free access to hay or grass, making up 90% of their diet. The rest should be made up of pellets (not muesli) and fresh greens
- Provide your rabbit with access to direct sunlight
- Ask your vet about tooth trimming services.
We recommend that you inspect your rabbits' front teeth often. They should be creamy white, smooth except for a vertical line down the centre of the top ones, and end in a neat chisel-shaped bite. The back teeth are best inspected by a vet. By paying close attention to your rabbit's oral health, you will have a healthy and happy bunny.
For more information on caring for your rabbit, please visit https://rabbitwelfare.co.uk/rabbit-care-advice/


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Iran frees detained US woman on $500,000 bail
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran released an American woman on a bail of $500,000 Tuesday more than a year after she was detained, but authorities said they were not considering the immediate release of two companions arrested with her.
The announcement came days after conflicting statements by Iranian authorities on whether Sarah Shourd would be freed as the process was complicated by political feuds among the leadership and questions over how a payment could be made for her freedom without violating international sanctions.
The English-language Press TV reported that Shourd, 32, had been released "on a bail of $500,000" but did not give more details. Iran's judiciary, meanwhile, issued a statement saying the "pretrial detention" of the two American men — Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal — has been extended for two more months.
Her family had said it was having difficulty raising the money. However, Tehran's chief prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dowlatabadi said later that the bail had been paid to an Iranian bank in Muscat, Oman.
"The judge issued the release order and Ms. Shourd was simply set free and she can leave Iran if she wants to," he told Press TV. He said the cases of the two American men, both 28, will be sent to the revolutionary court and "there is no talk of releasing those two right now."
Shourd's lawyer, Masoud Shafiei, said she had been released but was still undergoing formalities inside the Evin Prison, where she has been held in solitary confinement. He said he had no information about her departure route or any details about bail.
He later was quoted by the state news agency IRNA as saying Shourd planned to travel to Oman where her mother already was waiting for her, but that could not be confirmed and there were conflicting reports that she would go to the Qatari capital of Doha.
A spokesman for the Swiss Foreign Ministry, Lars Knuchel said the release had not been formally confirmed but "we are very confident that things are moving into the right direction."
The U.S. broke off ties with Iran after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, and Switzerland handles U.S. interests in Iran.
Shourd and her two friends were detained along the Iran-Iraq border on July 31, 2009 and accused of illegally crossing the border and spying in a case that has deepened tensions with Washington. Their families say they were hiking in Iraq's scenic north, and that if they crossed the border, they did so unwittingly.
The stage was set for Shourd's release last week when Ahmadinejad said he intervened as a gesture of Islamic compassion at the end of the holy month of Ramadan. However, the judiciary quickly humbled the president by saying it was in charge of the case and would set the rules — in the form of the largest known bail for any high-profile Westerner jailed in the past year.
Shortly after judicial officials announced the bail on Sunday, Shourd's lawyer predicted she could walk free in "two or three days."
Shourd's mother says she has serious medical problems, including a breast lump and precancerous cervical cells.
Moves to release Shourd have been accompanied by political jockeying in Iran between Ahmadinejad and his more conservative rivals.
Nora Shourd's phone message box was full when the AP tried reaching her for comment. A New York publicist working with the families, Samantha Topping, did not immediately return a phone call seeking comment. A message on the cell phone of Cindy Hickey, mother of Shane Bauer, referred calls to Topping.
Associated Press Writer Gretchen Ehlke in Milwaukee contributed to this report


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COOL ACT OF KINDNESS: Air conditioning company gives family new air conditioner, for free
A woman and her elderly mother have been living the past few weeks without a working air conditioning unit. thanks to a local business, they got some much needed relief Thursday.
With an Excessive Heat Warning in effect through Friday, the cold gift couldn't have come at a better time.
"I know it was 97 to 100 in here," said Susan Garcia. When the old air conditioning unit went out at her elderly mother's home, Garcia said she didn't know what she was going to do.
"Suffocating type feeling. You can't drink enough water," said Garcia, who is the caretaker for her 84-year-old mother. Her mother has dementia.
Susan, on a fixed income and not knowing where to turn, called the Salvation Army, and that got the ball rolling.
"Before you know it, Dale calls and he says my mom can have a new AC unit," said Garcia. "I didn't know where it was going to come from."
"Dale" is Dale Steele with Goettl Air Conditioning.
"We just want to help out whenever we can," said Steele. "Goettl's been in the community for 78 years, and we believe in taking care of our neighbors."
On Thursday, Goettl techs showed up to make sure Garcia and her mom can be comfortable at home, once again.
"In this type of weather when it's so hot and a system is down and somebody has no cooling, it's a serious issue," said Steele. "It's definitely a life support system in Arizona."
"I believe it's a godsend, because it's been two weeks since the air's been out, and my mother being elderly and she has dementia, she doesn't understand what's going on," said Garcia. "I'm thanking God for this company. I'm thanking God for Dale because I didn't know what to do."
The new unit reportedly cost about $8,000, and Garcia said there is no way they would have been able to afford that on their own.


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Becoming Suicidal: Biological Contributions
Natalie Staats Reiss, Ph.D., and Mark Dombeck, Ph.D.Suicidal behavior can be viewed as a poor response to stress. Our reaction to stress is affected by psychological variables. However, our physiology (body makeup) also, in part, affects how we cope with stressful situations.
Specific Temperament Types Have an Increased Risk of Suicide
Personality is the relatively stable set of characteristics that people display over time and across situations. These characteristics are called traits. Personality is made up of learned characteristics and genetically-based individual differences. These differences are in attention, arousal, and reactivity to new or different. This is known as temperament.
Research suggests that suicidal adults and adolescents tend to display certain temperaments. The first is referred to as "depressive/withdrawn", "negativistic/avoidant", or "high in neuroticism". Individuals with this temperament type show high levels of negative mood. They have difficulty controlling their moods (particularly negative ones) and tend to "overreact" to daily stressors. As a result, these individuals are more likely to develop depression and anxiety disorders, and often commit suicide as a result. In addition, people with this temperament type often have histories of being abused or developing inadequate relationships with caregivers.
Other people who commit suicide have an "impulsive/aggressive" (sometimes called the "negativistic/avoidant/antisocial") temperament. These individuals also have difficulty controlling their emotions, particularly anger. They are more likely than the individuals described above to commit suicide even without having a mood disorder like depression or anxiety. People with this temperament type are often diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder. This is a long-standing pattern of a disregard for other people's rights, breaking laws, deceitfulness, irritability and aggressiveness, reckless disregard for safety of self or others, consistent irresponsibility. If they are not diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder, they may show some antisocial behaviors. "Impulsive/aggressive" people are sensation seekers. They often engage in risky behavior, make poor and/or snap judgments, and abuse alcohol and/or other substances. Children with this temperament type often have histories of abuse (particularly sexual abuse).
Research suggests that someone's temperament type is related to genes that control the regulation of the neurotransmitters in the brain and nervous system. These are chemical messengers called norepinephrine and serotonin. These substances influence control of our moods. Temperament is also influenced by the environment and can affect someone's ability to cope with stress. For example, people with the temperament types described above would likely have poor coping skills and abilities to deal with stress. In addition, very early on, someone's temperament influences the reactions that they receive from their caregivers. Difficult and highly irritable infants are not fun to be around. They often trigger negative responses from caregivers. Difficult children may also experience negative reactions from peers, which then increases their risk for developing mental conditions. Teens with psychological problems or mental health conditions have a greater risk of being exposed to stressful events related to these conditions, which then influences personality development.
An Individual's Genetic Makeup Can Influence Suicide Risk
Research suggests that genetic factors are highly related to a particular person's risk for committing suicide. Suicide "runs " in families. The offspring of suicide attempters and completers are much more likely to engage suicidal behavior themselves. In addition, there are high suicide rates among adopted children whose biological families have elevated rates of suicide. Research with twins also supports a genetic link to suicide. If an identical twin attempted suicide, his/her co-twin has a 17.5% increased risk of having made an attempt as well. If an identical twin commits suicide, the co-twin has an 11.3% increased risk of committing suicide as well.
It is not exactly clear which genes are related to suicide. However, many researchers suggest that there is not a specific gene (or set of genes) that are increasing someone's suicide risk. Instead, what is being transmitted is a likelihood of developing specific types of mental illness that increase the risk of committing suicide. For example, depression or a specific personality type (e.g., impulsive/aggressive temperament). Others suggest that the genetic transmission of problems in the body's stress response systems (e.g., the HPA axis described below) or problems in the ability to control mood and impulsive behavior are likely culprits.
Neurological and Neurochemical Differences Increase Suicide Risk
The hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis is a system tying together the hypothalamus and the pituitary gland in the brain with the adrenal glands near the kidneys. It controls our body's responses to actual, anticipated, or perceived harm. In addition, the HPA axis controls our ability to adapt to stressors over time. Dysregulation of the HPA axis in vulnerable people can lead them to develop severe depression, severe anxiety disorders (particularly PTSD), and suicidal behavior following traumatic events or chronic stress.
In response to stress, the HPA axis produces glucose, cortisol, and steroids. Each of these chemicals prepares our body for the famous "fight (i.e., confronting a stressor) or flight" (i.e., running away from a stressor) response. They increase blood and oxygen flow to the muscles, increase heart rate, dilate pupils, enhancing the immune response, and increase alertness. However, this body response cannot be sustained for long periods of time without leading to illness. Autopsy studies show that people who committed suicide have elevated cortisol levels and enlarged adrenal glands. This suggests that their bodies were experiencing extreme stress.
Exactly how the HPA axis influences suicidal behavior is not yet clear. Some researchers suggest that increased cortisol levels affect the mood-regulating neurotransmitter serotonin. The levels may make it difficult for serotonin to get to brain and nervous system receptors. These are the neurochemical "catchers" that, when stimulated, can create a response in the body. Both suicide attempters and individuals who died from suicide have shown low serotonin levels (or poor ability to receive serotonin) in the brain stem and cerebrospinal fluid. In addition to regulating mood, serotonin seems to help inhibit impulsive behaviors. Someone with a malfunctioning serotonin system may be more likely to engage in suicidal and other potentially harmful impulsive acts.
Suicidal people also seem to have lower levels of norepinephrine (also called epinephrine or adrenaline) in the part of the brain called the locus ceruleus. Norepinephrine is a chemical messenger that affects the central nervous system and the bloodstream. When you are confronted with danger, epinephrine is released into the bloodstream. This increases your heart rate and blood pressure, readying your body for action.


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Can Saudi Arabia step in to replace oil production lost in Libya? When the Guardian published Wiki leaks cables from the US embassy in Riyadh in early February 2011 it sparked a short debate on Saudi oil reserves but the world's focus was on events in Egypt and the issue was quickly forgotten. But the reason for the cable was a presentation of ex-Saudi Aramco chief Sadad-al-Husseini at an Oil & Money conference by Energy Intelligence in London in October 2007 which showed future production profiles with a Saudi production of only 9.8 mb/d in 2011. Many analysts now assume Saudi Arabia can pump 12 mb/d which would be very important to offset production cuts in Libya which seem to be between 50% and 75%. Other oil producing countries are also in turmoil.
The situation changes on a daily basis with warnings issued by the International Energy Agency (more – www.iea.org/…)
"….it would appear that between 850 Kb/d to 1 mb/d out of a total of 1.6 mb/d of Libyan oil production is currently shut in" (more – www.iea.org/…)
(more – http://english.aljazeera.net/…)
(1) Introduction
(a) Analyst Steve Levine from Oil & Glory asks: If the world calls, will Saudi be there? 22/2/2011
(b) What will happen with oil contracts? Libyan rebels say control oil fields, honor oil deals 25/2/2011
"If oil contracts were unfair or based on corruption, however, the interim leadership of Libya's second city Benghazi said they reserved the right to renegotiate them." (more – http://www.reuters.com/…)
(c) While Saudi Arabia announces:
Saudi raises oil output as Libyan exports disrupted 25/2/2011
"We have started producing over 9 million barrels per day. We have a lot of production capacity", the industry source familiar with Saudi production told Reuters. That would be up more than 700,000 bpd from January. (more – http://www.reuters.com/…)
(2) WikiLeaks cable on Saudi Arabian crude oil production
WikiLeaks cables: Saudi Arabia cannot pump enough oil to keep a lid on prices 8/2/2011
According to the cables, which date between 2007-09, Husseini said Saudi Arabia might reach an output of 12m barrels a day in 10 years but before then – possibly as early as 2012 – global oil production would have hit its highest point. This crunch point is known as "peak oil".
The original cable was also published by the Guardian and can be found here:
The meeting Sadad-al-Husseini had in the US embassy in Riyadh in November 2007 was about his slide show, 3 weeks earlier, at an Oil & Money conference in London on 30th October, at Energy Intelligence.
The above is an extract from the original speaker's list. The quoted link to the 2007 conference no longer contains any details to the presentations shown but this a slide from Husseini's presentation showing a crude oil production profile of OPEC countries, past and future:
Note "regional turmoil undermines growth" in the title.
(3) Husseini's maximum production for Saudi Arabia
We extract Saudi Arabia's production profile from the above graph, add it to the actual production curve (EIA crude oil data) and get annual production in kb/d (LHS) and cumulative production in Gb (RHS). (Please note there can be inaccuracies of + – 100 kb/d as production figures have been taken from the above graph and not from a data table). This is the result:
What this graph shows (EIA data):
- Actual Saudi crude oil production up to 2010 (dark blue curve)
- Al-Husseini's projection starting in 2006, peaking at the end of this decade (red curve) at 11 mb/d, 1 mb/d below the claimed capacity
- Accumulated production using Husseini's projection (black curve)
- The depletion midpoint in 2024 for an original Saudi reserve of 360 Gb
- The depletion midpoint in 2011 for an original Saudi reserve of 260 Gb
It can be clearly seen that since Husseini's projection was done in 2007, Saudi production did not follow the red curve. Yes, there was a recession with less demand but OPEC as a whole was able to increase production. So what's going on in Saudi Arabia? Why didn't they pump?
From The IEA WEO 2005, published in November 2005, we knew
"In the last two years, there has been growing speculation about the ability of Saudi Aramco to sustain output from its mature fields because of technical difficulties, notably falling pressures and increasing water cuts. For example, production from the offshore Safaniyah field has been partially curtailed due to water encroachment. The company estimates that the natural decline rate – the rate at which production would decline in the absence of any maintenance or new drilling – at existing fields is around 6%. If this is the case, about 600 kb/d of capacity has to be added each year just to maintain overall capacity" (page 511). (more – www.worldenergyoutlook.org/…)
In this April 2006 article on Platts http://www.platts.com/ we get more details:
Saudi Aramco's mature crude oil fields are expected to decline at a gross average rate of 8%/year without additional maintenance and drilling, a Saudi Aramco spokesman said Tuesday
But Saudi Aramco has taken a number of measures to offset a decline in output from the country's aging oil fields, the spokesman added.
"A variety of remedial activities are always being taken in oil fields influencing their effective decline rates" the spokesman said. "The drilling of additional development wells in the producing fields is Saudi Aramco's standard practice to offset normal declines of older wells"
This is particularly important when oil fields are progressively depleted under a well thought out strategy of maximising the sweep and displacement efficiencies, leading to high ultimate oil recovery, the spokesman said
"This maintain potential drilling in mature fields combined with multitude of remedial actions and the development of new fields, with long plateau lives, lowers the composite decline rate of producing fields to around 2%" the spokesman said.
And since this article is no longer available on the Platts web site, this is a partial screen dump
The rest of the article is about projects needed for that remedial work, scheduled to come on-stream in 2007. It's available here: (more – www.greenenergyinvestors.com/…)
So let's put this into a graph, using data from the IEA (we switch to IEA data because they estimate Saudi capacities in their Monthly Oil Market Reports here: http://omrpublic.iea.org/ )
(5) Short history of capacity calculations by the IEA
The dark blue line is the actual crude oil production, the green line the capacity as assumed by the IEA. In 2001 and 2002 the IEA just accepted the official capacity of 10.5 mb/d given by Saudi Aramco. Then, in January – May 2003, Saudi Arabia's capacity was tested before, during and after the Iraq war. The maximum production was in April 2003 at 9 mb/d and the IEA lowered the capacity to 9.7 mb/d.
In the IEA oil market report 3/2003, we read: "OPEC spent much of February attempting to reassure the market that it could and would step into the breach in the event of an Iraqi supply disruption. However, OPEC statements that spare capacity remained around 3-4 mb/d appeared to be stretching reality, something that was borne out by relentlessly high prices"
Only as Qatif and Haradh3 came online in 2005/06 did the IEA see capacity going back up again to previous levels of 10.5 mb/d
By that time Saudi Aramco had embarked on a massive program to revive old fields mothballed earlier. The 1st field to come on-stream, planned for end 2007, was Khursaniyah. But works were delayed (technically challenging) and the production ramp up starting in August 2008 came too late for an additional demand for the Olympic games of 800 kb/d in mid 2008. Saudi capacity was tested but did not exceed 2005 levels after Qatif came on-stream. Therefore, lack of Saudi capacity contributed to the $147 a barrel oil shock. Yes, it was the "coming Saudi oil shock and the world economy" predicted by Matthew Simmons in his 2005 book "Twilight in the Desert"
IEA Monthly Oil Market report 9/2008
Saudi Arabia reportedly saw initial volumes produced from the AFK (Khursaniyah) project after long delays associated with gas processing facilities. Production of crude is seen building to an initial 250 kb/d in the next few months and 500 kb/d in early 2009
In the same reporting month the collapse of Lehman Brothers changed the whole oil demand situation and the new fields were actually not needed.
IEA Monthly Oil Market Report 6/2009
"Details about the start‐up of production totalling a staggering 1.55 mb/d this year have been equally vague. Obviously, the lack of demand for extra crude has forced Saudi Aramco to revise its production strategy but whether the company brings the new streams on line in a staggered fashion or opts to start operations at the new fields and then shut‐in production at older fields for maintenance work or more extensive rehabilitation is unclear."
So here the IEA lost track of what was going on in Saudi Arabia. They had no other choice than to add the new fields to the earlier capacity of 10.8 mb/d. But knowing about depletion, instead of adding 2.05 mb/d (Khursaniya, Shaybah, Nuayyim, Khurais) they just increased capacity by 1.4 mb/d, cautiously and step by step, to arrive at a "nameplate capacity" of 12.1 mb/d by end 2010, very close to Saudi Aramco's official figure.
Obviously, the IEA did not consider the July 2008 spike as an indication of limited capacity as they had done during the Iraq war surge.
(6) Alternative capacity guestimate
So back to the 2006 Platts article on oil decline. Maybe that will help us to do a guestimate. From the beginning of 2006, we draw 2% and 8% decline lines. Incidentally, the 2% line hits current production by end 2010. We also see that actual production in 2006/07 followed the natural decline rate (very scary), leaving just 300 kb/d from Haradh 3 as spare. If we had started the decline lines earlier so that there was no spare capacity in 2006 they would come out lower by that volume in 2010. So our calculation could be too high by 300 kb/d
In 2006/07 Saudi Arabia lost production share to Russia, so the decline was not caused by lack of demand: http://www.crudeoilpeak.com/?p=1800
The Platts article mentions infill drilling and other improvements. We have:
(1) production end year n
(2) + annual incremental production from infill drilling, work-overs and other improvements in existing fields
(3) + production from new fields coming on stream in year n+1
(4) = production end year n+1
We know which new fields have came online but can we get a handle on (2)? There are no public data available. But we can indirectly calculate this by looking at this 3 year period:
January 2006 production around 9,200 kb/d
January 2009 production around 8,000 kb/d
Difference…………………….. 1,200 kb/d decline
During that period, only Haradh 3 came on-stream with 300 kb/d so without this new field the decline would have been 1,500 kb/d or 500 kb/d pa, around 5.4 % pa. In other words, the natural decline rate of 8% was lifted up to 5.4 % by improvements in existing fields.
So we draw a 5.4% line in the above graph and add the new fields on top of that line (grey, light blue and brown lines). The capacity in December 2010 comes out as 9,400 kb/d, just 1.1 mb/d above the 8,330 kb/d in December 2010. Please note that IEA crude oil data in 2010 were by 400 kb/d lower than EIA data used in Husseini's graph so our guestimate comes very close.
Let's go back to Husseini's 9,800 kb/d for 2011. His assumption was an original reserve of 360 Gb implying he accepts Saudi Aramco's official remaining reserves of 260 Gb. However, his slide show contains a graph about OPEC's overstated reserves, around 300 Gb, part of which would be from Saudi Arabia. If, for example, Saudi Arabia's official remaining reserves were actually original reserves, the depletion midpoint would be in 2011 instead of in 2024 and production would therefore be lower.
If we had started with our decline lines in 2005 so that after Haradh 3 no spare capacity had been available at all, our estimate would have been 9,400 kb/d – 300 kb/d = 9,100 kb/d (IEA data). Adding 400 kb/d to get to EIA data that would be 9,500 kb/d, also lower.
Conclusion: Present Saudi crude oil production capacities at 12 mb/d are most likely too high. They can be between 9,800 kb/d (Sadad-al-Husseini) to 9,500 kb/d (EIA data) as estimated above, suggesting a spare capacity of 1 mb/d to 1.5 mb/d above Dec 2010 levels. As historic examples show (Iraq war, Olympic Games in China) Saudi Arabia can deliver an additional surge production for a couple of months. However, the surge capacity has declined from 1 mbd/ in 2003 to 500 kb/d in 2008. But before we speculate on what the surge capacity is now let us first wait for the promised 9,000 kb/d. The above estimates demonstrate how tricky things can be and we therefore have to expect surprises.


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Ice cores drilled last year from the summit of a Himalayan ice field lack the distinctive radioactive signals that mark virtually every other ice core retrieved worldwide.
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In 2006, a joint U.S.-Chinese team drilled four cores from the summit of Naimona'nyi, a large glacier 6,050 meters (19,849 feet) high on the Tibetan Plateau.
The researchers routinely analyze ice cores for a host of indicators – particulates, dust, oxygen isotopes, etc. -- that can paint a picture of past climate in that region.
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"There's about 12,000 cubic kilometers (2,879 cubic miles) of fresh water stored in the glaciers throughout the Himalayas – more freshwater than in Lake Superior," explained Lonnie Thompson, distinguished university professor of earth sciences at Ohio State University and a researcher with the Byrd Polar Research Center on campus.
"Those glaciers release meltwater each year and feed the rivers that support nearly a half-billion people in that region. The loss of these ice fields might eventually create critical water shortages for people who depend on glacier-fed streams."
Thompson and his colleagues worry that this massive loss of meltwater would drastically impact major Indian rivers like the Ganges, Indus and Brahmaputra that provide water for one-sixth of the world's population.
Thompson outlined his findings in an address at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco this week.
The Beta radioactivity signals – from strontium90, cesium136, tritium (hydrogen3) and chlorine36 – are the remnants of radioactive fallout from the 1950s-60s atomic tests. They are "present in ice cores retrieved from both polar regions and from tropical glaciers around the globe and they suggest that those ice fields have retained snow (mass) that fell during the last 50 years," he said.
"In ice cores drilled in 2000 from Kilimanjaro's northern ice field (5890 meters high), the radioactive fallout from the 1950s atomic test was found only 1.8 meters below the surface.
"By 2006 the surface of that ice field had lost more than 2.5 meters of solid ice (and hence recorded time) – including ice containing that signal. Had we drilled those cores in 2006 rather than 2000, the radioactive horizon would be absent – like it is now on Naimona'nyi in the Himalayas," he said.
In 2002 Thompson predicted that the ice fields capping Kilimanjaro would disappear between 2015 and 2020.
"If what is happening on Naimona'nyi is characteristic of the other Himalayan glaciers, glacial meltwater will eventually dwindle with substantial consequences for a tremendous number of people," he said.
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Los Angeles: Two Los Angeles police officers arrested two men yesterday who are suspected in a spree of burglaries since last August. The burglars had been breaking into apartments at the Orsini, located at 550 N. Figueroa in China Town.
Senior Lead Officers Ken Lew and Tim Nambu went to the apartments on January 30, 2008, to inspect the security systems there and determine how one or more suspects were getting into the building.
Nine different apartments had been broken into since last August, six in the Orsini I building, and three more in the Orsini II, across the street. The last burglary had occurred earlier that day, before the officers arrived.
"While we were looking things over, we heard a car crash outside," said Officer Ken Lew, who is one of two Senior Lead Officers in China Town. "When Tim and I went to help at the accident, we noticed all this furniture in one car. It looked odd, and resembled the same stuff taken from the apartments."
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Detectives encourage all property owners to invest in high-resolution security cameras, which are becoming less expensive and higher quality every day. While the Orsini had several cameras on the exterior, the suspects were able to act unseen because they had legitimate access to the building.
Artanesyan and Carrillo were booked for residential burglary. Their bail was set at $50,000. Detectives will work at returning the stolen items to their rightful owners.
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NPR's business news starts with an acknowledgement of trouble by President Obama.
INSKEEP: OK, the president is speaking right now to reporters and others in the White House Rose Garden. Our White House correspondent Scott Horsley has been listening in. He's in our studios. Hi, Scott.
SCOTT HORSLEY, BYLINE: Good to be with you, Steve.
INSKEEP: OK, the president's talking about Obamacare. What's he saying?
HORSLEY: Well, this is really the first big acknowledgement by the president that the problems with the website, healthcare.gov, that people are using to access the new insurance marketplaces are more than the glitches. He'd said all along there would be glitches. It's now become clear that the problems are more deep-seeded than that.
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INSKEEP: They might have anticipated it but they weren't ready for it...
INSKEEP: ..but it's going to be a problem here, isn't it, to get it fixed on the fly?
HORSLEY: Absolutely. You're trying to fix the airplane while flying the airplane, as the saying goes. But the president also stressed that what he calls the underlying product, the insurance that's available through these marketplaces is still good, even if it's tough to get access to it. And he stressed that the Affordable Care Act is more than just this website and that there are ways for people to access that insurance offline, either by the telephone or in person.
INSKEEP: OK, Scott, thanks very much.
HORSLEY: My pleasure.
INSKEEP: We'll be hearing more about this. NPR's Scott Horsley. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
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President Obama and the First Lady have welcomed the Pontiff to America at the start of his three-city visit
Pope Francis arrived in the United States the late afternoon of September 22 to begin his first apostolic journey as pontiff.
His plane, an Alitalia jetliner, touched down at Joint Base Andrews near Washington at 3.51pm Eastern Daylight Time, nine minutes ahead of schedule.
In the minutes before and after the plane landed, a group of excited Catholics, after having prayed the rosary, began and sustained a chant: "We love Francis, yes we do; we love Francis, how 'bout you?" Other chants later erupted: "Ho, ho, hey, hey; welcome to the U.S.A.!" and "Fran-cis-co!"
Ready to greet the pontiff as he descended from the plane, which bore US and Vatican flags, were President Barack Obama, his wife, Michelle, and their two daughter, Sasha and Malia.
A group of bishops stood on the tarmac waiting to greet Pope Francis, among them Cardinal Donald Wuerl of Washington, in whose archdiocese Joint Base Andrews is located.
Others on hand from the episcopacy were Archbishop Joseph Kurtz of Louisville, Kentucky, president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops; Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, USCCB vice president; Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, retired archbishop of Washington; Archbishop William Lori of Baltimore, a former Washington auxiliary bishop; and Archbishop Timothy Broglio of the Washington-based Archdiocese for the Military Services.
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Vice President Joe Biden also welcomed the Pope.
After the jet came to a stop, the roller stairway was wheeled into position and a red carpet rolled out. Thirteen minutes after the plane touched down, the door to the jet's cabin opened.
At 4.06pm, Pope Francis appeared from the open door to riotous cheering and applause from the small group of invitees, walking down the steps. Unlike Cuban leader Raul Castro, who walked up the steps to meet the pontiff at the door of the aircraft, Obama and his family waited at the base of the steps to greet Pope Francis.
The wind at times took Pope Francis's cape and lifted it over the back of his head. At the end of the carpet, the Pope met a few Catholic schoolchildren, who offered him a bouquet.
No formal remarks were planned for Pope Francis's arrival, and none was uttered. But the president and the Pope chatted amiably out of microphone range, each man wearing a wide smile.
Surrounded by a Secret Service detail, Pope Francis and Obama walked off the tarmac to the grounds of the military base and into a lounge for a brief discussion.
In six minutes, Pope Francis had come and gone.
But after just eight minutes in the lounge, the joint papal and presidential details re-emerged, with Pope Francis receiving rock star-like adulation of the crowd on risers on the tarmac.
The Pope stepped into the back seat of a four-door black Fiat 500L bearing the license plate "SCV 1″ — SCV being the Italian acronym for Vatican City-State — rolled down the window, and smiled at the onlookers before the vehicle slowly accelerated, trailing behind a much larger black Chevrolet Suburban. Even the glimpse of the departing Pope's hand waving from the window opposite him was enough to elicit added cheers from the crowd.
After Pope Francis had faded from view, Obama stayed on the tarmac long enough to shake the hands of the bishops who had assembled to greet the pontiff.
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