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Although earthquakes seem to strike out of the blue, the furious energy that a quake releases builds up for months and years beforehand in the form of stresses within Earth's crust. At the moment, forecasters have no direct way of seeing these stresses or detecting when they reach critically high levels.
Image to right: A 3-D visualization of seismic energy during the 1994 Northridge earthquake in California. Credit: Kim Olsen, University of California, Santa Barbara. [more]That may be changing, however. Satellite technologies being developed at NASA and elsewhere might be able to spot the signs of an impending quake days or weeks before it strikes, giving the public and emergency planners time to prepare.
This technique is sensitive enough to detect slow ground motions as tiny as 1 mm per year. That kind of sensitivity, combined with the landscape-wide view that satellites can offer, lets scientists see the tiny motions and contortions of land around a fault line in more detail than ever before. By watching these motions, they can figure out where points of high strain are building up.
Image below: An InSAR image showing the shift in the ground height due to the 1999 Hector Mine earthquake. The radar data were acquired by the European Space Agency ERS-2 satellite on September 15 and October 20, 1999. [more]
A group of NASA and university scientists led by Carol Raymond of JPL recently studied the feasibility of forecasting earthquakes from space. Their report, which was released in April, outlines a 20-year plan to deploy a network of satellites--the Global Earthquake Satellite System (GESS) -- using InSAR to monitor fault zones around the world.
With some practice, says Raymond, scientists eventually should be able to use the InSAR data to infer when stresses in the Earth's crust have reached a dangerous level, issuing a monthly "hazard assessment" for a given fault. Forecasters might report that the likelihood of having a major quake on, say, the San Andreas fault during the coming month is 2%, or 10%, or 50%.
Current methods are less certain. For example, the US Geological Survey recently released an updated assessment of the earthquake risk in the San Francisco Bay Area based on the seismic history of the area, its geology, and computer models. The study reported a 62% chance of a major quake (magnitude 6.7 or greater) hitting the area sometime within the next 30 years--not exactly something to plan your day
Breaking new ground
InSAR is one way to forecast quakes, but perhaps not the only one. While InSAR satellites merely improve the data available to orthodox seismology, there are other techniques that break with orthodoxy.
One of these ideas is to look for surges in infrared (IR) radiation. Friedemann Freund, adjunct professor of physics at San Jose State University and a scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center, explains: "In the 1980s and 90s, Russian and Chinese scientists noticed some strange thermal anomalies associated with earthquakes in Asia--for example, the 1998 Zhangbei earthquake near the Great Wall of China. This earthquake occurred when ground temperatures in the region were around -20o C. Just before the quake, thermal sensors detected temperature variations as large as 6o to 9o, according to Chinese documents."
Satellites equipped with IR cameras could be used to detect these hot spots from space. In fact, when Freund and colleague Dimitar Ouzounov of the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) examined infrared data collected by NASA's Terra satellite, they discovered a warming of the ground in western India just before the powerful January 26, 2001, quake in Gujarat. "The thermal anomaly was as large as +4 C°," says Freund.
Image to Right: An infrared image of the region surrounding Gujarat, India, on January 21, 2001. Yellow-orange areas trace thermal anomalies that appeared days before the Jan. 26th quake. The boxed star denotes the quake's epicenter. Image was captured by MODIS onboard NASA's Terra satellite. Credit:NASA [more]
What causes rocks under pressure to emit infrared radiation? No one is certain. The frequency spectrum of the emissions shows that internal heat from friction -- e.g., rocks rubbing together -- is not responsible for the radiation.
In one laboratory experiment, Freund and colleagues placed red granite blocks under a 1,500 ton press--mimicking in some ways what happens miles below Earth's surface. A sensitive camera developed at JPL and GSFC monitored the rock and detected infrared emissions. Furthermore, a voltage built up on the rock's surface. This leads Freund to believe the cause might be electrical.
Image below: When red granite is subjected to extreme crushing pressures in the laboratory, as in this experiment conducted by Freund and colleagues, its surface emits infrared radiation. [more]
Ordinary rocks are insulators. Rocks placed under great stress, however, sometimes act like semiconductors. Freund believes that, before a quake, pairs of positive charges called 'defect electrons' or 'positive holes' split up and migrate to the surface of stressed rocks. There they recombine with each other and, in the process, release infrared radiation. This explanation has some support from experiments, but it's still a young theory that hasn't gained widespread acceptance among scientists, he notes.
Electrical currents in rock might explain another curious observation: Scientists doing research with magnetometers just before major earthquakes have serendipitously recorded tiny, slow fluctuations in Earth's magnetic field. One example happened during the Loma-Prieta earthquake that devastated San Francisco in 1989. Almost 2 weeks before the quake, readings of low-frequency magnetic signals (0.01-0.02 Hz) jumped up to 20 times above normal levels, and then spiked even higher the day of the quake.
The cause of these signals is unknown. In addition to Freund's idea, theories include the movement of deep, ion-conducting groundwater into cracks opened up by the crushing of rocks, electromagnetic energy released by electrons that are sheered from crystalline rocks such as granite, and a piezo-magnetic effect triggered by pressure applied to certain kinds of rocks.
Image below: Low frequency magnetic signals recorded for 31 days around the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. [more]
A company called QuakeFinder is hoping that these faint magnetic signals (typically less than 1 nanotesla) can be detected by a satellite in low-Earth orbit. Ground-based sensors can detect these fluctuations as well, but polar-orbiting
satellites have the advantage of covering most of the Earth's surface each day.
On June 30, 2003, Quakefinder launched QuakeSat. Measuring only 4 in. x 4 in. x 12 in., the satellite will operate for a year to see whether it can sift out magnetic signals generated by tectonic activity. The first six months of the mission will be spent calibrating the satellite and gathering baseline data. After that ground controllers will be looking in earnest for quakes.
Both the infrared and magnetic methods of quake detection are controversial. For now InSAR seems to be a safer bet for earthquake forecasting. All three, however, offer a tantalizing possibility: Someday the local weather report will forecast not only of the storms above us, but also the ones brewing beneath our feet.
Final GESS report -- results of the GESS study, with a 20 year plan for deploying a satellite network for monitoring signs of impending earthquakes. "There's a lot of excitement in the scientific community for getting really high-quality, high time-resolution measurements of surface deformation," says JPL's Carol Raymond, who led the study.
NASA's earthquake research -- links to various NASA research projects related to earthquakes
USGS Earthquake Hazards Program -- (USGS) home page
2003 Earthquake Probability Study -- for San Francisco Bay Area, by the USGS
ULF/ELF observations predict earthquakes -- (SPIE) An interview with Jack Dea, Naval Command, Control and Ocean Surveillance Center
QuakeSat -- (Stanford University) home page
QuakeFinder -- a company dedicated to detecting earthquake precursors from space. QuakeFinder has just launched .
A Cubesat-derived design for a unique academic research mission in earthquake signature detection -- (pdf format) more about Quakesat


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Tech Segment: P2P Information Disclosure with Larry 'Big Blackjack' Pesce and Mick 'Vegas Baby' Douglas
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Stories For Discussion
0) The Future Of Metasploit According to HD Moore:
- metasploit, 6 years in the making
- now becoming a platform for other people's cool techniques
- dynamically generate word and pdf docs to bypass a/v when doing client side pen tests
- carlos perez meterpreter scripts mentioned in talk
- full ruby intepreter in meterpreter
- machterpreter being added, os x support for meterpreter, and linux (meterpretetux) and php
- adding dect and ziggbee sniffing and protocol support
- stole openvas client and reporting engine, plugins become metasploit modules
- use warvox to test security of voicemail on your employees phones
- write modules to automate exploits for vulnerabilities you find (i.e. default passwords)
- BASE XSS vulnerabilities & responsible disclosure - [Paul Asadoorian] - I wanted to speak out, again, on the topic of responsible disclosure. There is lots of software available today, free software even, software that is created by people who give it away for free to better your lives, jobs, and the security of our information. If you find vulnerabilities in this software you should embody the spirit of free software and contribute your findings to the project first, before posting them publically. We cover vulnerabilities every week, and often discuss how certain vendors or software makers fix these problems. open source project are typically some of the best organizations to work with to get bugs fixed, its simple, they just fix them ASAP. So, if you do spend time auditing open-source software, or any software, at least tell the creator what you found before you release it out to the world. I may not always believe this, but for open-source software this is the most responsible thing to do.
- Read Vulnerabilities Carefully! - [Paul] - be careful when you read these vulnerability reports. this is still an issue, but not csrf in the same context as you would think. important different, knowing the default username/password and executing commands, and executing commands when the broswer is already logged in are two different things. this is the former, so its not a big deal, and an issue we talked about already, but just goes to show you really need to read vuln. announcements carefully
- taking over a botnet - [Paul Asadoorian] - taking over a botnet can be fun, its kind of like taking a sports car for a joy ride, except its your neighbors sports car and he left the keys in it, and oh yea, its not street legal either. in this case the botnet hearders failed to claim the next domain name in the queue that all the bots would connect to! if you've never had access to a botnet its a fun thing to do, also don't forget to be responsible and always contact and work with law enforcement.
- directory traversal in printers a big deal? - [Paul Asadoorian] - in fact, yes. whats nice is that this is an embedded device AND its made by HP, this means they've left out security completely. even better, its a web server in an embedded device, which means its got to have vulnerabilities (recently someone was just telling me about an apache vulnerability, how long has apache been around and we still find bugs?). so this will also let you read cached documents, sweet! this is pretty stealthy, use SNMP, find printers, find ones with this vulnerability, use the web flaw to download documents going through the printer!
- Keyboard sniffing details & software released! - [Paul Asadoorian] - this is great news, the ability to sniff and/or inject keystrokes for wireless keyboard has been released! thanks to max moser for posting this, you will be able to order the hardware pcb's soon for "a reasonable price".
- Obama creates a Cybersecurity Coordinator - [MikeP] - Full text of Obama's speech creating the Cybersecurity Coordinator position.
- Patch your BlackBerry Servers! - [Mick] - I have routinely seen that BlackBerry systems are *the* holy grail when it comes to attackers. One stop shopping for all sensitive docs? Sign me up!
- Best Video! - [Mick] - Thanks for tweeting this you bot! I'm glad you're sharing your vids. Ugh. I do not envy Twitter's spam/security team's workload. Good luck!
- Fiber seeking backhoe cuts NSA link - [Mick] - The mental image of black SUVs rushing to the construction site is hilarious to me.
- It's a hoax people! - [Mick] - While I'm all for hardening SCADA, I don't like these "oh noes! I can pwn j00" type things. (maybe I'm turning into a grumpy old man)
- Sending Beacon frames with the AirPCAP adapter - [Larry] - a short neat script from Didier on crafting some beacon frames.
- BT4 Pre Final - [Larry] - Whoah, big changes, even from the BT4 beta release. New compressed drive images, new tools, new update methods...and of course, all sorts of new guides for configuring and booting
- All your BASE are belong to us - [Larry] - Go update BASE to 184.108.40.206, as previous versions have some reflexive and stored XSS vulnerabilities. Apparently the vulnerabilities were in code as originally forked form ACiD, but a big kudos from Kevin Johnson for rolling out updates incredibly quickly. I think that this is a great example of third party legacy code that someone ends up supporting that has serious issues. I also goes to show that even well respected professionals can make mistakes.
- Remote Data Backup win - [Larry] - Yet another reason why backups are good. User backs up file to online backup store, with scheduling. User has laptop stolen, and thief uses laptop to take pictures of himself. Backup kicks off, and copies the pictures to online backup store. User views, and provides to law enforcement.
- Injecting shell commands - [Larry] - Linksys WAG42G2 can be sent a modified POST request that will run shell commands. Of course, an attacker needs to modify the post command in transit....I mean there are NO tools that can do that....
- ioscat - [strandjs] - Yea.. Thats right.. Netcat for Cisco IOS.. Thank you Robert VanderBrink.
- Great Plugins for Volatility - [strandjs] - Some side plugins for the volatility framework for detecting Malware. As a bonus they are not traditional signature based.
- bugspy - [strandjs] - Bugspy is an open source link aggregator. As part of any penatration test you can now look for current open bugs in Open Source software. Why do you care? There are two reasons for this. First, it is a good place look for bugs to write exploits. Second, you can at least find some DoS vulnerabilities.
- Turkish Hacking group "m0sted" breach Army computers - [Dark0perator] - They "rendered useless supposedly sophisticated Defense Department tools and procedures designed to prevent such breaches" using SQL injection, no less.
Other Stories Of Interest
- Vegas should appreciate this - From the website: "Introducing the Dice-O-Matic mark II, now generating the die rolls on GamesByEmail.com. It is a 7 foot tall, 104 pound, dice-eating monster, capable of generating 1.3 million rolls a day."
- If this isn't an example of Social Engineering ... then there is a poisonous gas in your building which can only be neutralized by peeing on those around you.

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By John Maginnis
Since its difficulties with Huey Long, Big Oil has sought to develop warm relations with Louisiana governors and vice versa, if they knew what was good for them.
In order to advance nationally within the Republican Party, whose last national convention erupted into chants of "Drill, Baby, Drill," contenders must at least be acceptable to the energy industry. To the broader electorate, however, Gov. Bobby Jindal, as an oil-state governor under consideration for the GOP vice presidential nomination, can't afford to be seen as an industry toady.
Early in his term, the governor and the oil companies got along swimmingly, as an industry journal praised his administration's "improved" permitting process. The state's boom in exploration, from the Outer Continental Shelf to the Haynesville Shale, led to economic development that he could share credit for, despite the national recession.
Then came BP. The massive oil spill that ravaged the Gulf, the coast and its economy offered Jindal a golden opportunity: to whup up on an oil company, with the state and the nation cheering him on. He also lashed out at the response of the Obama administration, through which he restored his GOP star quality that he damaged in his national speaking debut the year before.
Yet, while singling out BP, the governor championed the industry as a whole by leading the protest of the exploration moratorium imposed by the president, thus supporting the GOP's job-killer line of attack against Obama.
As a bonus, the governor was able to connect the state's legal claims against BP to a long-awaited, long-term plan for coastal restoration. Up for legislative approval is the administration's 50-year, $50 billion coastal plan, the most comprehensive and science-based to be written. Its principal funding pieces, covering up to half the costs, are expected Gulf spill fines and offshore revenue sharing, beginning in 2017, for which Sen. Mary Landrieu gets credit.
Through his first term, Jindal struck a state and national profile an as overall defender of the industry while a lead critic of its worst actor, but also the man with the plan for the coast.
All which made the oil guys wonder why he would risk rupturing that relationship by his politics at the Legislature this spring. The companies looked to the governor to broker a favorable solution to their long-running legal battle with landowners and trial lawyers over oilfield pollution caused decades ago, when regulatory standards were lax to non-existent. The legal actions are called legacy lawsuits for the chain of leases that plaintiff's lawyers went back through to reach the deep-pocketed majors.
The oil companies grew increasingly impatient and concerned that Jindal, through his negotiator Natural Resources Secretary Scott Angelle, would not fully back their position. They wanted a process for having the state submit remediation plans in court that would both get the sites cleaned up and limit the companies' exposure to broader damage claims made in cookie-cutter lawsuits filed throughout south Louisiana. It more than peeved oil executives that Jindal seemed sympathetic to his friends major landowners Mike Foster and Roy O. Martin III, as well as small independent oil operators, who wanted to be let off the hook on damage claims. It further alarmed them that Jindal had collected $280,000 from trial lawyers in the last election cycle.
Much of this would have gone unnoticed by the general population but for Sen. David Vitter, who jumped in four-square behind the oil companies and called out Jindal for not forging a deal. Failing to do so, charged Vitter, maintained the status quo of the "trial lawyer bonanza." Without saying so, he was putting Jindal's vice-presidential possibilities on the line by casting him as an ally of trial lawyers and a foe to industry.
The matter dragged on until, suddenly, with state senators pressing for a resolution and with Jindal's assent, the agreement came together. The companies got what they wanted, the landowners and small operators got something, the trial lawyers got nothing.
Had Jindal fallen in line early with the oil companies, he may have been labeled their lackey. Instead, he stuck with the local millionaires against the corporate billionaires, for a while, before making his deal and his peace with the petro giants. If anything, the resolution enhances his VP stock by having him appear as a friend but no tool of Big Oil.
For whatever it gets him, one can best describe Bobby Jindal's oil politics as pretty slick.


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Happy Day 2, financial fasters!
In our interview with Michelle Singletary about her 21-day financial fast, she suggested journaling to track your progress and to use as a tool to work through your challenges. Below are some suggested topics for this week.
- Write down all those necessities you buy during the fast, which will help you assess whether they are truly necessities.
- Make a list of any obstacles that may prevent you from sticking to the fast, and then add ideas on how you can knock them out of your way.
- Think of one person who could use help financially, suggests Singletary. Could you step in to help somehow? Even if you can't give cash or goods, could you offer this person additional help, such as free babysitting?
- Are you giving as much as you can to charity? This week, Singletary advises thinking about whether you could you give more to support causes that are important to you.
I'll stop there to leave room for days when you just want to reflect in your journal about your personal progress or challenges. Please feel free to reflect on these questions and more in the comments section, in place of or in addition to your journal!
I'll start: As I've confessed in the Green American in the past, buying books is my budgetary weakness. Number one, I have a lot of friends who are writers and make their living off of royalties, so the thought of supporting authors that I love through my purchases alleviates much of my reluctance to buy a book that's new. Number two, I love books. I love the crack of a new binding when you open a book for the first time. I love the scent of fresh paper and the promise of a new, exciting story that's going to keep me up into the wee hours of the morning. After a stressful day, I can often be found seeking relaxation therapy in a bookstore. Annnnnd, I'm often tempted to buy something new before I go.
I also love the PBS Masterpiece Classic series Downton Abbey–and I'm not a big TV watcher. Now that Downton Abbey is over until next year, I'm dying to read this book about Lady Almina, a countess who lived in Highclere Castle (Downton Abbey's real-life setting) during the Edwardian period and beyond. Since the waiting list at my local library is quite long for this book, its very tempting to just buy it new.
Now, however, I cannot. And that is a good thing. I will not be financially supporting the author (who is a countess and likely doesn't need the 25 cents she'd likely earn), but I will be supporting my desire to increase my savings accounts and indulge in less impulse spending. I will also be doing my part to save forests, since most paper books are published on virgin pulp. (Sigh.)
I'm not proud of this habit, but I'm confessing all because many of us with extra cash may have a bad habit or two to break. The fast is about changing habits like these, and about fostering gratitude for what you do have. Every time I don't buy this book that I want, I think about how much I already have and how blessed I am to have it. To be truthful, that mindfulness has been making my "challenge" not so challenging. (More on that next week.)
What about you? What are your challenges in taking the fast, and how do you plan to overcome them? Do you have any thoughts on the other questions I've posted above?
I'll be waiting in the comments section, and come back next Monday for more Financial Fast inspiration/commiseration.


text: Update: Warner Todd Huston has a lengthier, more eloquent, and thoughtful piece up for your perusal. Today is the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth. And I'd be remiss not to acknowledge the moment. Ironically, even as we would honor the day of his birth, Lincoln himself would dismiss all inquiries about his youth and upbringing on the Frontier as "the short and simple annals of the poor". A man of rare ambition, savvy, and statesman-like vision, the colorful and quasi-religious mythology about our 16th President misses the mark, but not by as much as it would with most historical actors we can study. Outside the God-man Christ Jesus there have been no perfect men, no flawless or superhuman men, who have lived among us. But … [Read more...]


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iRedAdmin-Pro-1.3.0 is available for upgrade and purchase. We'd like to hear from you, tell us what you want to be available in next release - iRedAdmin-Pro-1.4.0.
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MySQL backend support. It will be a seperate iRedAdmin-Pro edition, with same features as OpenLDAP edition. It's a lot of work.
[COMPLETED] Show per-user quota usage.
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Summer of Chimpanzees
One day last summer, email correspondents of Brittany Fallon '11 found this message in their inboxes:
HELLO! Everything in Uganda is lovely, as always. We've recently had some really great days in especially lovely parts of the forest, full of tall buttressed trees with sprawling roots, located next to a part of the river that meanders and babbles through a clearing. The chimpanzees are still tricky to track, but that's to be expected of a population that's only semi-habituated. Luckily, the time we do get to spend with them (maybe 2 hours out of a 9 hour day) make the rest of the time completely worth it!
Days spent deep in the forest are always very welcome - it's currently the little dry season here. (As the Ugandans explain it, seasons are divided into four: wet season, dry season, little wet season, and little dry season), and everything is SO DUSTY. I'm positive I've consumed enough dirt just from
breathing to fill in the Sunken Garden! We walk to the forest at 6:45 every morning, when the sun is just rising…and holy cow, does the sun know how to rise in Africa! Every day is a brilliant spread of color, ranging anywhere from pale pinks/blues and deep purples to flaming oranges & reds.
Fallon's evocative description captures a bit of her 10-week observation of the chimpanzees at Kasokwa, a fragment of forest in Uganda's Masindi District. As an anthropology concentrator and rising senior honors student working with faculty member Barbara King, Fallon was invited to Kasokwa by primatologist Janette Wallis, the site's research director.
Together with graduate students at the site, Fallon lived in Kibwona, a small village on the outskirts of the forest. While there, she enjoyed becoming a part of the community and spending time with its people.
Although the bulk of her time was spent following and collecting data on the chimpanzees, Fallon did make several excursions within Uganda. During one, she visited with Jane Goodall, the renowned primatologist who was taping a '60 Minutes' television special celebrating her 50th year of chimpanzee research.
Now, working on her honors thesis, Fallon takes time to reflect on her time in Uganda: "This summer was a life-defining experience," she comments. "I truly enjoyed the wondrous excitement and adventure that comes from a first trip to Africa."
Her summer's work was funded by a Nathan Altshuler Scholarship (in Anthropology) and an Honors Fellowship (from the Charles Center). Her thesis's goal is to apply the knowledge she acquired about the wild apes' foraging behavior to help enrich the lives of chimpanzees in captivity.
King remarks that in her 22 years of teaching at the College, she had never before helped arrange an African field experience for an undergraduate. "Brittany's an exceptional person," King says. "She came to this project with extensive volunteer experience in ape enrichment at Save the Chimps, a renowned sanctuary in her home state of Florida. Despite a heavy schedule here at the College, she enjoys creating enrichment items for the chimpanzees at the Metro Richmond Zoo. She cares deeply about apes and is on track to make key contributions in science and to make a real difference in apes' lives."
Fallon expects to begin graduate work in primate studies in fall 2011.


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Sugar Guidelines
Sugar does not have its own special stripe on MyPyramid, yet recommendations about sugar consumption are an integral part of the USDA Dietary Guidelines, and their message is carried through in the pyramid.
The USDA Dietary Guidelines recommend eating fewer sweets to reduce calorie intake, ensure adequate vitamin and mineral intake, and control weight. Eating a lot of foods with added sugar typically crowds out more nutrient-dense foods, which is detrimental to your health and to your waistline. This article will help you to understand the role that sugar plays in your daily diet.
Sugars: Discretionary Calories
Added sugars, including sugars and syrups added at the table or in food processing or preparation, are empty calories because they have no nutritional value, yet they are loaded with calories. Sugars not naturally present in food are part of your discretionary calorie allowance. You need to carefully consider where to spend those discretionary calories, especially since they also include solid fats and alcohol. If you consume alcohol or higher-fat foods on one day, you'll need to really limit or avoid sweets altogether that day.
On the other hand, if you avoid fats and alcohol, you may have room in your calorie plan to have that favorite sweet treat. It's up to you to balance your discretionary calories. Read labels carefully. Sugar masquerades under many names in the ingredient list. To compare amounts of added sugars, check the "Sugars" portion of the Nutrition Facts panel. Keep in mind that the natural sugar in milk (lactose) and fruit (fructose) are also listed. These sugars are not much of a concern.
How Much Sugar Should I Eat?
The amount of added sugar listed in the discretionary calorie allowance is a maximum amount of sugar to consume each day. It is your "sugar budget," and you don't want to exceed it. This assumes that your solid fats are kept to the amounts listed in the fat section and you don't drink any alcohol that day. If you do, then you'll need to reduce your intake of added sugars and/or solid fats to keep your calorie scale in balance.
Below is a table that will help you estimate the amount of sugar you should eat each day, according to your calorie intake.
| Daily Calorie Level
|Added Sugars, Example
|12 grams (3 tsp)
|20 grams (5 tsp)
|32 grams (8 tsp)
|36 grams (9 tsp)
At first glance you may think you have nothing to worry about. Perhaps you don't add a lot of sugar at the table. Unfortunately, many processed foods have sugar added to them. Consider that a single 12-ounce can of soda has about 10 teaspoons of added sugar. An 8-ounce container of fruit-flavored yogurt typically has 7 teaspoons of added sugar, and a tablespoon of ketchup has 1 teaspoon of added sugar in every tablespoon. You can see that it's easy to exceed your sugar allowance unless you're very vigilant.
Benefits of Sugar
Not much for you in sugar -- they don't call it "empty calories" for nothing! Honey has a small amount of nutrients but is still a concentrated sweet. Molasses has a few minerals, but again, it's mostly concentrated sweetness. You'll do better getting your nutrients elsewhere in lower-calorie foods.
Best Bites for Weight Loss
Read the Nutrition Facts panel of foods to select those with the least amount of sugar and calories. Choose unsweetened foods as much as possible, such as unsweetened applesauce. Sugar-free foods, those sweetened with artificial sweeteners, are another choice. Some people prefer to avoid artificial sweeteners, in which case eat smaller amounts of the regular version of the food. Use fruit to sweeten foods so that you'll at least get some fiber, water, and nutrients along with sweetness. For instance, add fruit to cereal or yogurt. Use fruit to satisfy your sweet tooth -- it's much lower in calories than sugar-laden foods. Substituting fruit for candy bars -- even just some of the time -- will save you an enormous number of calories.
Sugar Consumption Tips
Assess Your Sugar
Don't throw out all the sweets in the cupboard at one time! You might have a mutiny on your hands if there are others in your household. Do check the foods you have on hand to assess which items are high in sugar. Dispose of a few first, and replace them with similar, lower-calorie choices. For instance, you might toss chocolate fudge cookies and replace them with fig bars -- so at least some of the sugar you're getting is from fruit.
Keep low-sugar snacks handy. The more healthy alternatives you have ready, the less likely you are to grab sweets on the run. Keep the cupboard and refrigerator stocked with low-sugar choices you've searched out at the supermarket. For instance, graham crackers and unfrosted animal crackers can satisfy a cookie craving with less sugar (and fat, too) than most cookies. Dried fruit can stand in for candy. Unsweetened iced tea can substitute for soda pop.
Keep high-sugar foods out of sight and hard to get to. Store sweets in the back of the cupboard so you can't see them: Out of sight, out of mind! Put sweets in the freezer, making them unavailable for a quick munch.
Keep low-sugar snacks available in the car. Try a mix like this that keeps well in a resealable plastic baggie:Low-Sugar Cereal Mix
Toss together:
- 1 cup each of several low-sugar, whole-grain cereals (e.g. Cheerios, Total, Grape-Nuts)
- Raisins to taste
- Handful of nuts or sunflower seeds
- Use sugar from the sugar bowl sparingly. Sometimes adding a very small amount of sugar might make a healthy food palatable so that you'll eat it. For instance, most people don't care for unsweetened oatmeal, which is a great whole-grain food. But if a spoonful of maple syrup or brown sugar makes it acceptable to you, go ahead and use a little. This would be a wise way to use discretionary calories.
- Eat only half your usual amount of high-sugar foods. Share dessert, put half away, or have a smaller portion to begin with.
- Drink less sugar-laden pop and other sweetened beverages. Be sure to be a label looker when it comes to the beverage aisle. Many clear beverages with fruit pictured on their labels actually contain as much or more sugar than soda pop. Even "lightly sweetened" teas rival soft drinks in sugar content.
- Choose unsweetened beverages when you can, or check the "Sugars" portion of the label. Drinks like Gatorade and Powerade have only 14 grams of sugar per cup (compared to soda pop's typical 27 grams per cup), and the "light" versions of Gatorade and Powerade have only half that much -- 7 grams of sugar. Sparkling waters with natural flavorings often have no calories.
Setting Sugar Goals
As you set your goal for eating fewer sweets, start gradually or you'll feel deprived. Never forbid yourself a certain food. Eliminating a food from your diet only causes you to want the food more and eventually binge on it. Perhaps begin with goals such as:
- Starting today, I will drink only one can of soda pop per day rather than my regular two, for five days of the week. (Make sure you have low-calorie alternatives that you like on hand.)
- This week I will eat dessert after dinner only on Saturday.
As you can see, proper nutrition is a key element to healthy weight loss. Controlling your weight is not a simple matter of starving yourself. For lasting weight loss you need to feel full and energized. If you follow the USDA recommendations for each food group, you'll be well on your way to a healthier you.
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Bank Deregulation and Income Inequality
Since the financial crisis, "deregulation" has become a catch‐all phrase for everything that went wrong in our financial markets. Unfortunately said deregulation is rarely ever explained, but is rather asserted. To truly inform policy debates, discussions must center on specific instances of deregulation. One such example of banking deregulation that did actually occur was the The Riegle‐Neal Interstate Banking and Branching Efficiency Act of 1994 (imagine that, a Democrat Congress and a Democrat President deregulating the banking industry). The heart of Riegle‐Neal was to remove barriers to interstate branching.
A recent article in the Journal of Finance looks at the impact of bank branching deregulation on the distribution of income across U.S. States. A working paper version can be found here. The researchers find that as bank deregulation increased competition and improved efficiency, "deregulation materially tightened the distribution of income by boosting incomes in the lower part of the income distribution while having little impact on incomes above the median. Bank deregulation tightened the distribution of income by increasing the relative wage rates and working hours of unskilled workers." The bottom line is that the increased competition that resulted from deregulation disproportionately benefited those on the bottom of the income distribution. As Washington continues to pile additional new regulations upon the banking industry, we should bear in mind that much of the impact of increased regulation might be felt by those least able to bear it.
The extent to which regulatory barriers in banking benefits the rich at the expense of the poor is also illustrated in a forthcoming article, again in the Journal of Finance. In this article, the authors find in the early 20th century, counties where the elite had disproportionately large land holdings had fewer banks per capita, with costlier credit, and more limited access. The authors see this as suggestive that elites restrict financial development in order to limit access to finance, and hence maintain existing income inequalities.
One of the lessons I take away from these papers is that we need to examine banking regulation/deregulation as it actually occurs and is implemented, and not how we believe some all knowing, benevolent government would impose it. The odds seem to me that the more extensive is banking regulation, the more likely it is to be captured by economic elites and narrow interests.


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Alberta Health Minister Fred Horne says the former policy of a Calgary fertility clinic to restrict patients to using sperm donors of their same racial background highlights the need for clear ethical guidelines as the province moves toward funding invitro fertilization.
"This is a really good example of how when we look at this, these kinds of issues, it's about a lot more than the money to fund the service," he said Tuesday.
Horne added he was "surprised" to learn of the policy, which Calgary's Regional Fertility Program, a private clinic, claims had been in place up to last year.
"I don't agree with it, I don't think it's in keeping with the values of Albertans or society generally," Horne said.
The minister said the province is now going through the assessment process to determine eligibility criteria for publicly funded fertility treatments, which would likely hinge on the basis of patients' medical suitability and the number of embryos to be implanted and the number of cycles to be covered.
"There's some ethical issues that have to be considered and ethical questions that have to be answered," he said.
However he stopped short of saying individual physicians should be compelled to provide fertility treatment, even if they disagree with the choice of donor, as was the case at the Regional Fertility Program, Calgary's only fertility clinic. He said the conduct of individual physicians is regulated by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta.
The College has previously told the Herald that physicians have the right to withhold any non-emergency treatment due to moral or ethical objections as long as they refer patients to doctors who will provide the services they seek.
Horne's comments came the day after the Regional Fertility Program released a statement claiming it had cancelled its controversial policy last year and distanced itself from controversial comments made by its administrative director, Dr. Calvin Greene.
The clinic became the subject of international headlines after an exclusive report by the Herald last week revealed a patient at the clinic seeking invitro fertilization was told she could not use sperm donors who were not Caucasian.
Catherine, who asked to be referred to by her first name only, said she was informed of the policy in March 2013 during routine consultations for IVF. Greene, who was not her doctor, responded to the Herald's request for comment and confirmed the policy existed in two separate interviews.
"I'm not sure that we should be creating rainbow families just because some single woman decides that that's what she wants," he said. "That's her prerogative, but that's not her prerogative in our clinic."
He also referred the Herald to the clinic's website that stated: "It is the practice of the Regional Fertility Program not to permit the use of a sperm donor that would result in a future child appearing racially different than the recipient or the recipient's partner."
The statement has since been removed.
In a release, the clinic's spokeswoman Paula Arab said the Regional Fertility Program had failed to update its website sooner due to an "oversight."
"Since changing our policy last year, the clinic has treated numerous patients who have requested donors of different ethnicity."
Arab said Tuesday the clinic changed the policy during a meeting on May 28, 2013. She could not explain why Greene, who was present at the meeting, seemed unaware of the policy change in the interview with the Herald, and cited privacy concerns for not being able to provide contact information or statements from patients who had received treatment using donors of a different racial background.
She also said that Greene, one of Canada's leading fertility specialists, was not representing the clinic when he told the Herald the clinic's policy mandating a "cultural connection" between patients and their potential children had been in place since the 1980s.
Greene's comments "represent his own opinions and do not reflect policies at the clinic," according to the release.
Arab said Tuesday she could not explain why Greene responded to the Herald's request for comment from a representative from the clinic.
Greene has frequently acted as the clinic's spokesman in previous interviews, and was interviewed for a feature on fertility treatment that ran in the Edmonton Journal last weekend. A full transcript of the Herald's interview with Greene and the clinic's statement can be seen here.
Meanwhile, Alberta Liberal Party leader Raj Sherman said the case emphasizes the need for public funding of invitro fertilization.
"You can't have these private companies, because of their personal policies, being forced onto Albertans. That's the issue with this clinic," he said.
"It's the government's job to be the referee, government's job is to pass the legislation and set the regulations and the rules. And the rules must be made in conjunction with the leaders of the medical community who do the work."


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I've kept a quote book since I was about eighteen. My main one has a glossy egg-yolk-yellow cover, with a billiard-felt green rectangle set into its center. The inside has paler green lined pages, and I've been writing down snippets from novels, articles, pamphlets--whatever--for almost thirty years now.
I posted a selection of them in the first year we were doing this blog, and as I'm on deadline until June 12th, I'm firing up a second round for your delectation.
Here goes:
"When I say I'm writing a piece, a piece is a gun."
"I have known what it is to be hungry, but I always went right to a restaurant."
"I remember one time, when his meds were working, joking around with him: 'How come God never tells you to just go shopping? How come it's always "That water is poisoned, there's a chip in your brain, the aliens are coming"?'"
"Always behind you stands waiting something immense and black, something fresh and brilliant, and within one bound you are in it."
Paul Claudel's Nijinsky
"'Believe me, my dear fellow,' he went on after a pause, 'there'll be none of this damned equality in heaven.'"
"The Master said, 'I have yet to meet the man who is as fond of virtue as he is of beauty in women.'"
"If repetition is a virtue, Walt Whitman is a saint."
seminar at Sarah Lawrence College, November, 1986
"For obviously, under all he says, lie three convictions: that wealth is the greatest good, and the more of it the better (tanta est animi beatitudo), that the good things of life are simply a superfluity of articles of the best quality and the opportunity to enjoy them in the most vulgar manner possible, and that, in this sense, everyone quite naturally acts for his own material advantage."
"Even as a child, when I lacked for nothing, I wanted to die: I wanted to surrender because I saw no sense in struggling. I felt that nothing would be proved, substantiated, added or subtracted by continuing an existence which I had not asked for. Everyone around me was a failure, or if not a failure, ridiculous. Especially the successful ones. The successful ones bored me to tears."
"Fortunately, what Sarah Lawrence teaches is a lesson called 'How to be shocked and dismayed but not lie down and die,' and those of you who have learned this lesson will never regret it, because there will be ample time and opportunity to use it."
graduation ceremony, Sarah Lawrence College
"The world taught women nothing skillful and then said her work was valueless. It permitted her no opinions and said she did not know how to think. It forbade her to speak in public, and said the sex had no orators. It denied her the schools, and said the sex had no genius. It robbed her of every vestige of responsibility and then called her weak. It taught her that every pleasure must come as a favor from men, and when to gain it she decked herself in paint and fine feathers, as she had been taught to do, it called her vain."
"The essential function of art is moral. Not aesthetic, not pastime and recreation. But moral. The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality. One which changes the blood, rather than the mind."
"I'd had dull stupid jobs but this appeared to be the dullest and most stupid of them all. The idea, I decided, is not to think. But how do you stop thinking? Why was I chosen to polish this rail? Why couldn't I be inside writing editorials about municipal corruption? Well, it could be worse. I could be in China working in a rice paddy."
"There are certain fixed rules that one observes for one's own comfort. For instance, never be flippantly rude to any inoffensive, grey-bearded stranger that you may meet in pine forests or hotel smoking rooms on the Continent. It always turns out to be the King of Sweden."
"Poets like this will exist! When the unending servitude of women is broken, when she lives by and for herself, when man--hitherto abominable--has given her her freedom, she too will be a poet! Woman will discover part of the unknown! Will her world of ideas be different from ours? She will discover things strange and unfathomable, repulsive and delicious. We shall take them unto ourselves, we shall understand them."
"What matters is talk, family, cheap wine in the open air, the wresting of minimal sweetness out of the long-known bitterness of living."
"I'd like to clear up one last thing before I go off and eat an entire banana cream pie by myself: men and women do not get stuck together when they screw. Oh, sure, you can beat her at arm wrestling, throw her across the room, mow her down in the line for Bruce Springsteen tickets, but you're no match for her vagina? Come on.
"If a woman could keep you inside her by clamping her vaginal muscles in an inextricable viselike grip, you'd be there now."
"This was the fatal flaw in Timothy Leary's trip. He crashed around America selling 'consciousness expansion' without ever giving a thought to the grim meat-hook realities that were lying in wait for those who took him too seriously. After West Point and the Priesthood, LSD must have seemed entirely logical to him... but there is not much satisfaction in knowing that he blew it very badly for himself, because he took too many others down with him.
"Not that they didn't deserve it; No doubt they Got What Was Coming To Them. All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought they could buy Peace and Understanding for three bucks a hit. But this loss and failure is ours, too. What Leary took down with him was the central illusion of a whole lifestyle that he helped to create... a generation of permanent cripples, failed seekers, who never understood the old-mystic fallacy of the Acid Culture: the desperate assumptions that somebody--or at least some force--is tending that light at the end of the tunnel."
"Don't tell me that making a quiche can be equally fun, and that cheese is no dinner, because even monkeys know this. It's just that when the ball is bouncing, or everyone's leaving to go swimming--in the dark, when you're stunned and splashing in the bracing ink, and you are the ink, and you find yourself going 'oh, my God, oh, my God" like in that Chekov story--you want your kitchen time to be brief."


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(cross-posted from http://designedforlearning.wordpress.com)
The 1st full paper for our symposium at CAL is now available for download (pdf).
When it comes to design patterns, there seem to be two types of people: born-again evangelists who would sell their mum to convince you that patterns are the cure to all your ails, and normal, decent folk who just don't understand what all the fuss is about. In a recent conversation with Helen Sharp, I drew an analogy to Aubergines ("No! Patterns are nothing like aubergines – aubergines are yuck!").
Gwen and Stephan are perhaps the trailblazers of a third type: they decided to apply a bit of scientific scrutiny to the claims of pattern evangelists. Using the theory of cognitive load, they ran a serious of experiments, observing the effect of design patterns on novice and expert designers. Results? "… This leads us to the tentative conclusion that the use of design patterns does not only affect the efficiency of the design effort, it also constitutes learning efficiency of novices to gain design skills and it enhances the quality of their design."
Gwendolyn Kolfschoten and Stephan Lukosch: Cognitive learning efficiency through the use of design patterns
Teaching Processes and systems in organizations become increasingly complex and dynamic. This requires managers of expert teams to quickly gain knowledge and insight outside their prime area of expertise. To transfer expert knowledge and to reuse design solutions design patterns can be used as building blocks for the development of systems and processes. The use of design patterns can increase the efficiency of design & implementation of solutions and in some cases it can enable automated implementation of design. This allows the expert to re-use components to accommodate new requirements in a more flexible way. However, the advantage of design patterns might go beyond re-use, design efficiency and flexibility. This paper argues that in addition to the benefits described above, there is a specific added value for the use of design patterns by novices to acquire design skills and domain knowledge. We propose that design patterns, due to their conceptual design, offer information in a way that enables the creation of better linkages between knowledge elements and improve the accessibility of the information in the memory. For this hypothesis we will analyze the literature on cognitive load and cognitive learning processes, and add to this three case study experiences in which novices and experts were offered design patterns to develop and implement systems and processes.


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Endless Bummer tote from Emerging Thoughts (use code "keiko" for 10% off), Seychelles Ampersand heels (on sale).
Well, that went by very quickly. It was so nice that we got to spend time with my cousins! I'll have more photographs from my trip to Nashville this week, but right now, Kim and I are packing and getting ready to get back on the road. Endless bummer.


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If you are in or near LA in September, you have the opportunity to immerse yourself fully in the Blue Note world, as our collaboration takes over Sonos Studio Los Angeles for the "Born In Blue" exhibition, running September 10 to October 24. In a re-imagined record shop with modern touches, you can check out historic artifacts from the Blue Note archives, watch dynamic artist performances, and take yourself back in time through an interactive installation that allows you to explore the full history of jazz, including 75 years of Blue Note.
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Hotel default: Bank sues Minor over Landmark loan
After months of public wrangling over its financing that's led to a month-long work stoppage on the Landmark Hotel, Silverton Bank has now officially thrown a gauntlet at the feet of Halsey Minor. The Atlanta-based lender has filed a lawsuit alleging that Minor has missed $10.5 million in payments on the $23.7 million loan he took out to build the hotel that Minor himself now calls "an unviable project."
The latest suit means that, combined with collection actions already filed by Merrill Lynch as well as the Christie's and Sotheby's auction houses, Minor could be on the hook for nearly $60 million in alleged debts.
In November, it was Minor who claimed Silverton was ruining the deal. "Halsey Minor paid," said Minor. "The bank didn't pay. They flat-out did not pay."
The bank's suit, filed February 24 in in Fulton County, Georgia, alleges that Minor has committed seven moves that constitute default including firing the developer without the bank's consent and making "misleading and incorrect" statements in loan documents.
Minor did not return the Hook's call for comment at the time of this post. However, last month, in filing a lawsuit of his own against Silverton and former developer Lee Danielson, Minor laid much of the blame in the opposite direction.
Minor alleged that the bank and Danielson "colluded" in presenting Minor a bogus construction budget. For instance, Minor alleged that Danielson intentionally hid $5.2 million in expenses for such "ordinary and customary" costs as elevators, fire protection, and plumbing fixtures plus the costs of the main-floor restaurant and the addition of a penthouse-level lounge.
Danielson has already blasted the suit's claims, calling them "preposterous" and asserting that he has paperwork to demonstrate Minor's foreknowledge of the charges.
In its default suit against Minor, Silverton agrees that cost has exceeded budget, but the bank directs blame at the owner. Silverton alleges that Minor has suffered such adverse changes to his financial position that he's unable to complete the hotel. The bank also claims that it wasn't until February 19, just after a work stoppage, that Minor informed the bank that the project budget had exploded from approximately $30 million to approximately $50 million.
According to George Overstreet, a professor at UVA's McIntire School of Commerce, a project in default of its loan has hit quite a roadblock.
"Minor will either have to pay up," says Overstreet, "or the bank will have to foreclose."
"With the cost overrun of $20 million," continues Overstreet, "his $7 million in equity is now a smaller percentage of the total cost. So in addition to this $10.5 million he's supposed to owe them, he'd have to cough up more in equity."
The City of Charlottesville has some expertise on that front. Beginning in 1985, through what some critics have characterized as a series of missteps, it began pumping over $11 million in taxpayer funds into what became known as the Omni Hotel.
As much as he hates the "eyesore" of the unfinished Landmark shell, current mayor Dave Norris doesn't see another City bailout of any private enterprise, much less another hotel.
"I can't imagine," says Norris, "how we justify putting money into a luxury boutique hotel when we're putting off capital expenditures."
So who will ultimately own the Landmark? The professor says it likely won't be Minor.
"Unless he pays up, I doubt Minor will be the owner," says Overstreet. "If the bank forecloses, they'll try to sell it. But in this economy, who's going to want a $50 million hotel?"
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These men are idiots.
And they think we are dumber then they are.
I just got a bucket of tar from the hardware store
anyone have some feathers. How about a rail.
And I knew it an eyesore from the start.
Joe Smith
HAHAHA yeap shes a BEAUTay Nothing Minor bout that Mess.
quote: "As much as he hates the 'eyesore' of the unfinished Landmark shell, current mayor Dave Norris doesn't see another City bailout of any private enterprise, much less another hotel."
I don't see how anybody can possibly believe that the city taxpayer will have any choice but to toss substancial amounts of money into finishing this hotel. $11+ million into the Radisson (Omni), maybe we will get by with $20+ million this time. It's coming, we just need to prepare ourselves mentally!
Wouldn't it cost substantially less to just rip it down? Tear it down, plant some grass. Done.
One of those "capital expenditures" that's been put off is the $3+M in storm drains. New bricks were more important than storm drains.
The other shoe drops, crushing all beneath it.
I feel sorry for the Box. It's a decent place, in a decent space. They should sue.... somebody.
Speaking of Lucky (ahem and on topic)
Check out a short film about a dog named Lucky shot in the town of Esmont, VA.
Directed by J. Toronado
With Dog killing! Kid biting! Heaving breasts!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzSEgEsoIIM part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Br9FtNEptiA part 2
Get some popcorn.
I watched the first few seconds of the film. No heaving breasts. How long do I have to watch until I get to that part? Can you just tell me what minute and second the heaving breasts appear, so that I can fast forward through the boring part?


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Electric cars and hybrids are set to be required by law to make a humming noise when travelling at low speeds – to prevent deaths and injuries of elderly or vision impaired pedestrians in shopping centres and car parks.
In a landmark submission filed overnight the peak road safety authority in North America recommended external speakers become compulsory on all electric vehicles and hybrids from 2016.
Currently, the only sound from cars running on electric power is the almost-silent rolling of the tyres. Some cars, such as the Nissan Leaf electric car, already make a deliberate hi-tech hum below 30km/h – but the noise can be disabled by the driver at the press of a button on the dash.
Toyota began fitting outside speakers to the Prius hybrid in North America last year – but they're yet to be fitted to models sold in Australia.
"It's something we're looking at seriously," said Toyota Australia spokesman Mike Breen. "We've had some calls from various agencies who've expressed concern about [hybrid] cars being heard by people with limited sight. We are working with Toyota Japan to find what would best suit conditions in Australia."
Toyota has sold more than 10,000 hybrid cars in Australia over the past 10 years but says it is yet to receive a report of someone being knocked over by one of its petrol-electric vehicles while in silent mode.
The Holden Volt plug-in hybrid car doesn't have a hum – but it does have what the company calls a "polite" horn. If you tap the button, it gives a short toot at half the normal volume to let others know you're nearby.
"If [external noise] were mandated in North America, the technology would likely make its way onto cars here," said Holden spokesman Craig Cheetham.
Vision Australia said electric cars were a danger to blind people and the visually impaired and has called for "urgent action".
"It's a significant safety problem," said Vision Australia spokeswoman Megan Bishop. "Environmental sound is critically important for people who are blind or vision impaired.
"Sound is an essential aid to independent mobility and safety. People have a fundamental right to travel independently as pedestrians."
In the US, Congress ordered an investigation into the dangers caused by silent electric cars three years ago. It is likely to become an increasing concern as the population ages.
The latest report by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) estimates external speakers would prevent 2800 injuries a year and add $30 to the cost of each electric car.
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Sri Lanka will limit the amount of women that go to Saudi Arabia to work as housemaids as outrage continues over Saudi Arabia's beheading of a Sri Lankan teen.Officials this week raised the minimum age for female domestic workers so that no women under the age of 25 would be allowed to go to Saudi Arabia to work as a maid, said Keheliya Rambukwella, a government spokesman.
The move comes after the beheading of housemaid Rizana Nafeek that occurred earlier this month. Nafeek was 17 when a baby she was caring for in Saudi Arabia died. She was convicted of killing her employers' son in 2005. The family said she strangled the 4-month-old boy after being asked to bottle-feed him, but Nafeek said the infant accidentally choked on milk.
Human rights groups and the Sri Lankan government had lobbied for leniency in the case but on January 9 she was put to death.
Saudi officials defended its action days after the execution.
"The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia categorically rejects any interference in its affairs or in the provisions of its judiciary under any justifications," a statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency read.
The statement went on to say complaints about the case "draw on false information about the case and are issued without full knowledge of the circumstances of the case itself."
The new rule also raised the minimum age of maids seeking to work in west Asian countries to 21.