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Date posted - September 26, 2012

Orange City, Iowa ? Orange City is among seven Iowa towns vying to be among the ?Prettiest Painted Places in America.?

The national contest is helping people across the country to discover what Iowa residents have long known: The Hawkeye State has some of the most beautiful towns and neighborhoods to be found anywhere.

Sponsored by the Paint Quality Institute, whose mission is to educate the public about quality paints and coatings, the ?Prettiest Painted Places? competition has drawn seven entries from Iowa. The nominees are Orange City, Adams County, Albia, Decorah, Greater Des Moines, Grinnell, and Pella.

Over the next few weeks, the seven Iowa communities will vie with nearly 200 nominees from other states for regional and national honors, as judges with expertise in color selection, exterior painting, and home improvement review the entries, conduct additional research and make selected site visits. Finalists will be announced soon, and the nation?s 12 ?Prettiest Painted Places? will be revealed in mid-October.

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Huge Sumatran quakes in April a step in tectonic plate breakup

Planet Earth may be 4.5 billion years old, but that doesn't mean she can't serve up a shattering surprise now and again.

Such was the case on April 11 of this year when two massive earthquakes erupted beneath the Indian Ocean, far from the usual danger zones. Now scientists say the seafloor ruptures are part of a long suspected, yet never before observed, event: the slow-motion splitting of a vast tectonic plate.

The first of the quakes, a magnitude 8.7, was 20 times more powerful than California's long anticipated "big one" and tore a complex network of faults deep in the ocean floor. The violence also triggered unusually large aftershocks thousands of miles away, including four off North America's western coast.

"It was jaw-dropping," said Thorn Lay, a professor of Earth and planetary sciences at UC Santa Cruz. "It was like nothing we'd ever seen."

At first, Lay wondered whether the computer code he used to analyze earthquakes was wrong. Eventually, he and other scientists realized that they had documented the break-up of the Indo-Australian plate into two pieces, an epic process that began roughly 50 million years ago and will continue for tens of millions more. Lay and other scientists reported their findings online Wednesday in the journal Nature.

Most great earthquakes occur along plate borders, where one plate dives beneath the adjoining plate and sinks deep into Earth's mantle, a process called subduction. The April 11 quakes, however, occurred in the middle of the plate and involved a number strike-slip faults, meaning the ground on one side of the fault moves horizontally past ground on the other side.

Scientists say the 8.7 main shock broke four faults. The quake lasted 2 minutes and 40 seconds ? most last just seconds ? and was followed by a second 8.2 main shock two hours later.

Unlike the magnitude 9.1 temblor that struck in the same region on Dec. 26, 2004, and created a deadly tsunami, the April 11 quake did not cause similar destruction. That's because horizontally moving strike-slip faults do not induce the massive, vertical displacement of water that thrust faults do on the borders of plates.

The type of interplate faults involved in the Sumatran quakes are the result of monumental forces, some of which drove the continent of India into Asia millions of years ago and lifted the Himalayan Mountains. As the Indo-Australian plate continues to slide northwest, the western portion of the plate, where India is, has been grinding against and underneath Asia. But the eastern portion of the plate, which contains Australia, keeps on moving without the same obstruction. That difference creates squeezing pressure in the area where the quakes occurred.

The study authors say that over time, as more quakes occur and new ruptures appear, the cracks will eventually coalesce into a single fissure.

"This is part of the messy business of breaking up a plate," said University of Utah seismologist Keith Koper, senior author of one of the studies. "Most likely it will take thousands of similar large quakes for that to happen."

The quake was also notable for triggering powerful aftershocks thousands of miles away. While major quakes have been known to trigger aftershocks at great distance, they are usually less than 5.5 in magnitude. The April earthquake triggered 11 aftershocks that measured 5.5 or greater in the six days that followed the main shock, including one as big as magnitude 7. Remote shocks were felt 6,000 to 12,000 miles from the main quake.

Fred Pollitz, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park, Calif., and lead author of one of the studies, said the quake was extremely effective in transmitting seismic wave radiation around the world. Though the magnitude of the Sumatran quake is No. 10 on the list of historic quakes, Pollitz said no other quake has triggered so many strong aftershocks so far away.

"It's the most powerful earthquake ever in terms of capability of putting stress on other fault zones around the world," he said.

Pollitz said the quake is likely to teach seismologists about the physics of earthquakes, particularly those along strike-slip faults. That knowledge, he said, would certainly apply to the San Andreas fault, which is also a strike-slip fault.

Lay said that the quake was most surprising in that it was completely unanticipated by seismologists and that he did not expect to event to repeat itself any time soon.

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Ann Romney talks Mitt's dance skills with Leno

By NBC News staff

Comedy Central

King Abdullah II of Jordan spoke to "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart Tuesday night.

If you think we?re paying close attention to issues like Iran?s pursuit of a nuclear weapon and the effect that YouTube videos can have in the streets of the Middle East, that?s nothing compared to what?s going on in the mind of the rulers in the regions.

Jon Stewart got to hear about Arab Spring from King Abdullah II of Jordan on Tuesday?s ?Daily Show.? King Abdullah, in New York for the United Nations General Assembly, offered his take on the region in an extended interview.

Though, as Stewart noted at the beginning of the show, neither King Abdullah nor anyone else will be getting a private session with President Obama (in his defense, ?The View? is a much cheerier setting than the U.N. Building), the Jordanian monarch gave him a taste of what he would say about the Iran situation if he were able to tear his way away from Barbara Walters and company.

?The way I put it to those who will listen is that the reason we have a nuclear program is because what Israel is doing to the Palestinians, and the future of Jerusalem,? he said. ?So my argument is that if Israel and Palestinians solve their problems, that allows the Israelis and the Arabs to come together and have a peace treaty, then there?s no longer a raison d??tre for Iran to have a nuclear weapon.?

The king also discussed Arab Spring and its effects, noting that while Jordan is surrounded by volatility (?we?ve seen better days,? he said), it got ahead of the game by making changes to its political system in advance.

?The difference between Jordan and other countries is that we changed the constitution. They ran elections and now have to change the constitution,? he said.

He also noted that some of the results that may not make some in the United States very happy right now are the inevitable results of the transition to Democracy.

?Arab Spring started because of the economy, and then it went from economic frustration to politics. What happened in a lot of countries was, as young men and women aspired to political form, those who were more organized like the Muslim Brotherhood hijacked the movement. ?But in a way, that?s Democracy,? he said.

And President Obama doesn?t need to worry about hurt feelings. As far as King Abdullah is concerned, choosing ?The View? over world leaders isn?t bothering anyone.

?Not that I have heard, no. I think everyone is there preparing for their speeches.?

Questionable call

The decision to meet with ?The View? audience as opposed to world leaders did bother Stewart, who began the show questioning the decision. But, as he noted, it doesn?t seem to be affecting his election chances.

?Whatever his missteps are as a candidate Obama is still surging in the polls because the closer we get to the election the dumber Mitt Romney seems to be getting,? he said.

The audience cheered, but Stewart shook his head.

?Really? Is that how you wanna win this thing? The other guy just tears his ACL -- that?s how you want to win??

Up in the air

Over on the "Colbert Report," host Stephen Colbert took a moment to chat about one of those "injuries" Romney recently suffered -- his airplane window gaffe.

On Saturday, an electrical fire caused the candidate's wife's plane to make an emergency landing. The event left Romney publically musing about airplane windows.

"You can't fine any oxygen from outside the aircraft to get in the aircraft because the windows don't open -- I don't know why they don?t? It's a real problem." he said after the incident.

"It is a real problem," Colbert agreed. "For one thing, it explains why Burger King doesn't have a fly-through window. ? Just as Kennedy challenged us to put a man on the moon, now Mitt Romney is challenging us to add power windows to the Delta shuttle -- not because it is easy, but because it is impossible."

Meanwhile Ann Romney sat down with Jay Leno Wednesday night to talk about a wide range of things on the "Tonight Show" -- from flying in a smoke-filled plane, to the fact that the Romney family (they have five sons) loves Costco, and about her battle with multiple sclerosis -- oh, and also about the Republican candidate?s abilities as a hoofer.

?You know, Jay,? she said to Leno, ?he?s gotten to be a better dancer.?

Cut to a doctored clip of Romney mixing it up ?Gangnam Style.?

She was a game guest, but admitted that campaigning is stressful ? and she didn?t expect to be doing it yet again. ?It?s a hard thing to do this ? especially being a wife and having to listen to (attacks in the media) all the time,? she told Leno, then ?fessed up: Four years ago, she made her husband a very special videotape. ?I looked in the camera, and I said, ?Mitt, this is for you, sweetheart. I?m never doing this again.? And I showed it to him. And he looked at it and then he said, ?You know, Ann, you say that after every pregnancy.? Which is true.?

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Onions on hamburger send Oregon man into ?McFury?

Jayme John Leon after his arrest (Multnomah County Courthouse)The unexpected inclusion of onions on a hamburger sent one Oregon man into what police called a McFury, which could not be alleviated even after he was offered a free replacement burger.

The Oregonian reports that Jayme John Leon, 50, reportedly threw a soda in a McDonald's manager's face and smashed a cash register over the dispute.

Leon walked into a local McDonald's on September 23 and ordered a quarter pounder burger without onions. But when he returned home, Leon discovered the burger was in fact topped with onions.

When he called the restaurant to complain, Leon was told he was entitled not only to a refund but also to a free replacement burger.

Leon reportedly ate the offending burger anyway but still showed up at the McDonald's demanding a refund and fresh burger.

"Since he ate the quarter pounder, McDonald's would not refund his money, sending Mr. Leon into a McFury," Sgt. Claudio Grandjean, Gresham Police spokesman, told the paper.

After tossing the drink and breaking the register, Leon then left the restaurant and headed back home.

He was intercepted by police and has been charged with first-degree criminal mischief, second-degree disorderly conduct, and harassment.

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Entire Field of Particle Physics Is Set to Switch to Open-Access Publishing

A consortium has brokered an agreement with 12 journals to ensure that nearly all particle physics articles are made immediately free on journal Web sites

By Richard Van Noorden and Nature magazine

Freeview: Experimental results from high-energy physics, such as this fireball of quarks and gluons, should soon be published in open-access papers. Image: CERN

From?Nature magazine

The entire field of particle physics is set to switch to open-access publishing, a milestone in the push to make research results freely available to readers.

Particle physics is already a paragon of openness, with most papers posted on the preprint server arXiv. But peer-reviewed versions are still published in subscription journals, and publishers and research consortia at facilities such as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have previously had to strike piecemeal deals to free up a few hundred articles.

After six years of negotiation, the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP³) is now close to ensuring that nearly all particle-physics articles ? about 7,000 publications last year ? are made immediately free on journal websites. Upfront payments from libraries will fund the access.

So that individual research groups do not need to arrange open publication of their work, the consortium has negotiated contracts with 12?journals (see ?Particles on tap?) that would make 90% of high-energy-physics papers published from 2014 onwards free to read, says Salvatore Mele, who leads the project from CERN, Europe?s high-energy physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland, and home of the LHC. According to details announced on 21 September, six of the journals will switch their business models entirely from subscription to open access. It is ?the most systematic attempt to convert all the journals in a given field to open access?, says Peter Suber, a philosopher at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana, and a proponent of open access.

The consortium invited journals to bid for three-year open-access publishing contracts, and ranked them by an undisclosed algorithm that weighed their fees against their impact factors and the licences and delivery formats they offer. Under the deal, the journals will receive an average of ?1,200 (US$1,550) per paper. Physical Review D, the journal that publishes most papers in the field, negotiated a fee of US$1,900 per article ?on the principle that we should maintain our revenue?, says Joe Serene, treasurer and publisher at the American Physical Society, which owns the journal. But the society?s prestigious Physical Review Letters missed out because its bid was too high, says Serene (the journal currently charges authors $2,700 for individual open-access articles). CERN and SCOAP³ will continue to negotiate individual open-access agreements with journals not included in the deal, and more could join when the contract is renegotiated in 2016.

Mele says that the goal of SCOAP³ is to switch the discipline?s journals to open access without researchers noticing any effect on their grant funding or on the way they publish papers. The consortium will pay the contracts from an annual budget of ?10 million, which is funded not by authors or research grants, but by pledges from more than a thousand libraries, funding agencies and research consortia across the world. In effect, existing journal subscription fees are being repurposed to provide the open-access funds.

Before any contracts can be signed, however, publishers must reduce the price of their subscription packages to offset the income from SCOAP³ ? a complex calculation to ensure that libraries don?t pay twice for the same content. Then SCOAP³ must collect its pledges ? not a foregone conclusion, as some libraries may be tempted to renege, figuring that their institution won?t lose access to the free papers anyway.

Mele hopes that success could trigger a domino effect in fields such as astronomy and astrophysics. ?I personally believe that once this is demonstrated to work, some variations, fine-tuning and adaptation of the idea will emerge,? he says.

But Serene and others caution that SCOAP³ may be hard to replicate. It has unique advantages in that most high-energy-physics papers are published in just a few journals, and that the field can be driven and coordinated by one central organization, CERN.

Suber notes the stark contrast between the quiet brokering of SCOAP³ and the battles playing out over mandates for open-access publication by research funders such as foundations and government agencies (see Nature 486, 302?303; 2012). ?I call it the peaceful revolution,? he says.

This article is reproduced with permission from the magazine Nature. The article was first published on September 24, 2012.

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Google starts Nexus 7 tablet, content sales in Japan

TOKYO (Reuters) - Google Inc launched its Nexus 7 tablet in Japan, as well as local language movies and books, in what has rapidly become one of its biggest global markets for digital downloads.

Japan is the first country in Asia outside Australia to sell the 16-gigabyte device, which went on sale online Tuesday for 19,800 yen ($250) and will be available in retail stores on October 2. The device is already available in France, Germany, Spain, Canada, the UK and the United States, according to Google.

Japan has rapidly embraced the smartphone, with devices running Google's Android operating system tripling in the past year, according to Google. Google said that Japan now ranks third in terms of downloaded applications from its Play store.

Google makes most of its money from advertising and with the rise of mobile users, is seeing increasing traffic to its YouTube video website. In Japan and South Korea, more than half of YouTube downloads are from mobile devices, some of the highest ratios in the world.

Google's executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, attended the launch and later told a briefing that growth in the smartphone market would lead to a boom in new startup companies in Japan focused on shopping.

"It is the defining platform and the defining battle in our industry," he said.

While Google has long lagged Yahoo Japan in the domestic search market, in launching the tablet and downloadable content, it has stolen a march on Amazon.com Inc, which has yet to launch its own Kindle in Japan. Local player Rakuten Inc launched its own e-reader device, the Kobo, in July.

The primary challenge has been persuading local content providers to share content. Google said that in addition to the movies for rent it has offered Japanese consumers, it would for the first time sell movies from Sony Corp and Paramount.

In addition, Google will begin providing Japanese-language book titles on Google Play. The Android system allows users to read the same titles and pick up where they lift off on another device.

The global tablet market is dominated by Apple Inc and its iPad, which represented about 70 percent of global sales in the second quarter, and also includes Barnes & Noble Inc's Nook and Samsung Electronic's Galaxy Tab.

($1 = 77.8750 Japanese yen)

(Reporting by James Topham, Kevin Krolicki; Editing by Chang-Ran Kim and Matt Driskill)

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Florida's conflict over health-care law divides voters

5:15 a.m. EST, September 23, 2012|By William E. Gibson, Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON ?

? Phyllis Kaufman is a lifelong Democrat in Tamarac who might vote for Republican Mitt Romney in November, partly because she shares his belief that the new health-care law is a costly giveaway to freeloaders.

Sandra Sullivan is a Republican in Orlando who might vote for President Barack Obama, mostly because the new law covers cancer survivors like her, as well as other patients with pre-existing health problems.

Moving in opposite directions, these two Floridians reflect voters' conflicting opinions about health care in this election year. It's an especially important issue in a state where 3.9 million residents are uninsured, 3.5 million are covered by Medicare and 3.2 million depend on Medicaid.

Voters have a clear choice between Obama, who counts the Affordable Care Act as his signature legislative achievement, and Romney, who vows to try to repeal the law starting "on day one" while retaining some of its most popular provisions.

Florida itself embodies that conflict: The state so far has refused any steps to implement the new law yet could be among its biggest beneficiaries.

Florida led a lawsuit by Republican-run states that challenged the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, which was ultimately upheld by the Supreme Court. And Gov. Rick Scott has turned down millions of dollars of federal grants to create a state-run "exchange" ? an online shopping site ? to help consumers compare insurance plans and prices.

Scott and some Republicans in the Legislature also plan to block a dramatic expansion of Medicaid coverage under the law ? which the high court allowed states to refuse ? though the federal government would pay all the added costs for three years and more than 90 percent in later years.

Many voters side with Scott's and Romney's opposition for fear that the so-called "Obamacare" will prove costly, despite some projections that it will save money in the long run.

"It's nice Obama wants to give everybody health care, but it's going to cost a fortune. Can we really afford that?" said Mary Palermo, 80, a retired banker in Boca Raton. "He is just spending too much money, money, money."

At the same time, health-care advocates in Florida are fervent promoters of the law, noting that their state would benefit enormously because of its older population and big gaps in insurance coverage.

Florida ranks third nationally in the number of uninsured individuals and families, with more than one in five residents lacking insurance.

The new law emphasizes preventive care and requires everyone to buy insurance, while providing subsidies and tax credits to try to make it affordable. Supporters say that strategy will save money on insurance premiums in the long run.

"Now you have all these people running around with no insurance. So they have no health care, and whatever their problem is gets worse," said Cheryle Davis-Darrell, 54, a former preschool teacher in West Palm Beach. "By the time they go to the emergency room they have to run all these tests. A lot of things that could have been prevented become more expensive, and everyone ends up paying anyway."

Romney and his running mate, Paul Ryan, hope to repeal the law or cut funding, including money for expanded prescription drug coverage for Medicare patients that Obama says saved the average senior $641 through August of this year. Ryan's budget plan ? which passed the U.S. House this year ? also would cut Medicaid by a third and continue the current reliance on emergency-room care to treat people with low incomes.

Romney said recently that he does want to retain provisions in the law that allow adult children up to age 26 to remain on their parents' policies and require insurers to cover patients with pre-existing health problems. He did not say how he would ensure that such coverage is affordable.

The pre-existing provision has proven popular with many voters, including Sullivan, 53, an Orlando Republican and a thyroid-cancer survivor who is weighing how to vote.

"I have heard a bunch of people go Democrat over that health plan, because they've had cancer," she said. "I do think the Affordable Care Act is not about politics, it's about my health. It's about my family. Nobody in this country should have to go bankrupt over medical bills."

But many voters, including some Democrats, say Obama is too quick to give away benefits and spend money.

"Let them get jobs and pay for their own," said Kaufman, 67, a Tamarac Democrat and retired market researcher. "He [Obama] is going to give us this and that for free. A lot of people will take advantage and want a lot of things for nothing."

Romney implied much the same when he told a group of donors in Boca Raton last May that 47 percent of Americans don't pay taxes but depend on the government for health care and other needs.

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'42' Trailer: Witness Jackie Robinson's True Story

Chadwick Boseman makes a stunning impression as the groundbreaking baseball legend in the first trailer for '42.'
By Josh Wigler

Chadwick Boseman in "42
Photo: Warner Bros. Pictures

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Farmer 'cycles from China to London for Olympics'

A Chinese farmer claims he spent two years riding nearly 40,000 miles (60,000 kilometres) through 16 countries on a rickshaw to reach London in time for the Olympic Games, the BBC reported Thursday.

Chen Guanming, 57, said his goal was to "spread the Olympic spirit" on his epic quest through war zones, mountains, floods, and extreme temperatures which took him to countries including Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran.

He was inspired to make the journey while watching London mayor Boris Johnson accept the Olympic flag from inside the Bird's Nest stadium in Beijing during the 2008 closing ceremonies, he told the BBC.

Video footage of Chen shows him displaying a passport filled with visas allowing him entry to various countries along the route.

He told the broadcaster he had to wring sweat out of his clothes in Malaysia, Vietnam, and Thailand, where he was also caught up in deadly floods.

When he was refused a visa to Myanmar, he simply backtracked and cycled to the mountains of Tibet instead.

On reaching Turkey via Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran, he found himself snowed in for four days.

Chen finally arrived in London on July 6, where British businessman John Beeston -- who speaks some Mandarin -- stumbled across him on Lower Regent Street looking "completely lost and downhearted".

Beeston said the rickshaw -- which Chen has decorated with mementoes of his journey -- caught his eye, and when he spoke to the man in Mandarin, he "burst into life".

"London is especially beautiful," Chen told the BBC.

"I wanted to come here because I wanted the whole world to support the Olympics and be part of it."

Beeston told the BBC that Chen's story was "like telling people that a Martian has landed in the garden."

But he added: "What he's done isn't dissimilar to what Marco Polo did and the Italians named an airport after him."

It is not clear exactly where Chen measured the start of his journey from, although the direct distance from Beijing to London is approximately 5,000 miles.

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Multi-Generation Holidays Are Go!

Posted July 24, 2012 by Bob & filed under Articles.

The charity Age UK?recently conducted some fascinating research and discovered that over half of British adults have been away or are planning to go away on holiday with two or more generations of their family this year. The UK is the most popular destination for multi-generation holidays and the most common reason amongst parents is so that their children can spend time with their grand-parents. Other reasons given for the increase in multi-generation family holidays is being able to explore different parts of the UK without breaking the bank.

Many grand-parents take a holiday with their children and grand-children in order to celebrate a special occasion or just to bond with family members. Taking a staycation in a holiday cottage with different generations is a fantastic way to spend quality time together and is a much cheaper alternative to going abroad with the cost of numerous flights and transfers let alone hotel bills.

If you are looking forward to a holiday in the UK with different generations, there will be a holiday cottage that is perfect for you and we have scoured our site to find some of the biggest and best holiday cottages available to rent for a family celebration or simply just because..

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Crepe Farmhouse

This luxury holiday home close to the Dorset coast, sleeps 17 members of an extended family! It has an indoor pool, sauna and hot tub as well as a games room and bbq. If you are a large family looking for a rural getaway then this is the place!

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Lochside Garden House

Ideal for exploring the Scottsh Borders and Northumberland countryside, this large holiday cottage sleeps 11 in very comfortable surroundings. Christmas spent here in front of the log fire sounds pretty idyllic to us.

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Carlyon Bay, St Austell Cottage

Imagine having a family barbecue on this deck. This bungalow is ideal for a multi-generation family with elderly grandparents as there are no stairs to contend with here. Set in a beautiful part of Cornwall close to the picturesque villages of Mevagissey and Fowey, there is plenty to keep all members of the family occupied.

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Bruton Cottage

A large family gathering would be perfect here. This detached farmhouse in Somerset lies within 300 acres with pigs, cows, chickens and lambs all around. Grand-children will love seeing the farm animals and the grown-ups will love the on-site farm shop for all of its treats.

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newsinthesun.com - Call For Food And Drink For Firefighters

The northwestern front of the forest fire which started on Sunday is still advancing out of control.

The Tagara barranca is inaccessible except to helicopters and the hydroplanes, what fireman are doing is to clear firebreaks in the hope of slowing the advance to the north west.

The official count is 300 volunteers actively fighting the fires with a further 500 personnel in support roles.

One group of voluntary fireman from the? V-6 Santiago del Teide brigade were almost cut off in the Chasobo area when the fire front took an unexpected turn around 3pm this afternoon, luckily no one was hurt.

There is now an official call for help from the public in the form of refreshments, food and drink, for the volunteers who are fighting the fires now in their fourth day. Those who are able to help are asked to contact their nearest tourist information office.

Bar Las Estrellas in Guia de Isora was just one establishment that answered the call and has been providing sandwiches and drinks for the fire fighters dealing with the advancing fire front in the Tagara ravine.

The owner of the bar told RTVC that fire fighters were returning covered in ash and looked completely worn out.

Guia de Isora Ayuntamiento has recommended that the 212 inhabitants of Chirche vacate their homes as a precaution.

In the east the fire near Vilaflor was officially declared under control around 4pm.

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GOP Governor Calls For Romney To Release Tax Returns, Then Walks Back Remarks

Yesterday Republican governor Robert Bentley called on Mitt Romney to release more years of tax returns and subsequently walked back his remarks, explaining to BuzzFeed that he didn?t mean he wanted Romney specifically to release his records, he just meant every candidate should do it.

RELATED: Rep. Jason Chaffetz?s Advice For Those Asking To See Romney?s Tax Returns: ?Get Over It?

Bentley was quoted in an Associated Press article yesterday as saying Romney should release his tax returns, according to The Hill.

?If you have things to hide, then maybe you?re doing things wrong? I think you ought to be willing to release everything to the American people,?

Bentley made the remarks while attending the National Governors Association, and later explained to BuzzFeed that he was not calling Romney out in particular on the tax returns front.

?I release my tax returns every year and I just think that everyone should do that. You know, I did not call on him to do that. I just said that?s what I do, and I said I just might be the only public official in Alabama that does that, but I do that every year. I just think it gets an issue behind you when you go ahead and do it. I remember when President Bush did that. I would call on the president to do that also. I just think that it?s just easier to do that and get past that.?

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Rhodes quake shakes Israel

July 9, 2012

JERUSALEM?(JTA) -- An earthquake that originated in Rhodes was felt throughout Israel.

The 5.7-magnitude earthquake reportedly was felt in both the north and south of Israel, as well as in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.

In May, Israel felt a 5.3-magnitude temblor that originated near Cyprus.

A 5.9-magnitude earthquake struck Israel in April 2011.
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Eve Reacts To Being ?Punched?, Lilian Garcia Singing At NFL Game

- On SuperSmackDown LIVE: The Great American Bash, a fight between Damien Sandow and Zack Ryder left Eve?wearing a white dress?completely covered in punch. Backstage Fallout caught up with Eve to get her reaction to the party mishap. Tyler Reks also reacts to whether he feels guilty for Ryback?s massacre of Curt Hawkins. Also offering comments on SmackDown events are Cody Rhodes, Dolph Ziggler, ?Hacksaw? Jim Duggan and Sgt. Slaughter.

- Lilian Garcia will sing the National Anthem on Sept. 30 prior to the NFL game between the New York Jets and San Francisco 49ers at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey.

- Former WWE announcer Todd Grisham is in Las Vegas, Nevada covering UFC 148</em. and will be interviewing company president Dana White for MMA Live on ESPN.

- Following his appearance on Raw SuperShow, Diamond Dallas Page has been added to the Alumni section on WWE.com.

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Undersea eruption mimics climate change

An underwater volcano that erupted near the Canary Islands off the coast of Africa is giving scientists a closer look at how ocean ecosystems could respond to climate change, from dying fish to adapting plankton.

The ecosystem responded much as the researchers would have expected to the high temperatures and changes in acidity caused by the uneasy volcano south of El Hierro island. But the strength of the response was a surprise, study researcher Eugenio Fraile-Nuez of the Instituto Espa?ol de Oceanograf?a in Spain told LiveScience.

"The physical and chemical response of the system was predictable, but we never have imagined that we would reach this magnitude," Fraile-Nuez said. [ Images: Wild Volcanoes ]

The eruption killed or drove away all of the fish in the region (though many were seen floating dead on the ocean's surface), the researchers found. Some phytoplankton, or the floating plants that sit at the bottom of the ocean food chain, were able to adapt.

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In October 2011, a new volcano formed south of El Hierro island, which is part of Spain. It was the first chance in 500 years to watch the local ecosystem evolve in response to an eruption, Fraile-Nuez said. He and his colleagues have been monitoring the volcano since then, measuring its effect on ocean temperature, salinity, carbon dioxide content and more.

Over the crater, the water heated up by as much as 65 degrees Fahrenheit (18.8 degrees Celsius), the researchers found. Dissolved oxygen in the water all but disappeared, decreasing by 90 percent to 100 percent in places. Meanwhile, carbon and carbon dioxide values shot up, and the pH of the water went down by 2.8, meaning it became more acidic.

Fish died or disappeared in the wake of the underwater eruption, which also killed a massive amount of plankton in deep waters. In their place, a community of carbon-eating bacteria sprung up, many of which shone with bright green fluorescence. At the surface, plankton seemed to adapt to warmer waters and the addition of new elements such as copper, Fraile-Nuez said.

Link to climate change
Increase in temperature, decrease in oxygen and a more acidic pH is exactly what scientists would expect to be the result of global warming for the ocean, Fraile-Nuez said. As the oceans take up more and more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, scientists predict they'll respond much as the area around El Hierro has to the volcanic eruption ? though not necessarily on the same scale.

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Understanding the changes caused by the volcanic eruption will help researchers predict how the oceans will respond to certain levels of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, Fraile-Nuez said.

"The orders of magnitude in which we are moving will help us to have a future vision of how the marine ecosystem of El Hierro would adapt to such changes," he said.

Fraile-Nuez and his colleagues detailed their results online this week in the open-access journal Scientific Reports.

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Counting carbon: Pre-industrial emissions make a difference

Wednesday, July 4, 2012

When evaluating the historic contributions made by different countries to the greenhouse gasses found in Earth's atmosphere, calculations generally go back no further than the year 1840. New research from Carnegie's Julia Pongratz and Ken Caldeira shows that carbon dioxide contributions from the pre-industrial era still have an impact on our climate today. Their work is published in Environmental Research Letters.

The burning of fossil fuels that came with industrialization released massive amounts of carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere, which has caused global warming. But clearing forests and other wild areas for agricultural purposes also contribute to atmospheric carbon dioxide, and that has been happening since before industrialization.

When unmanaged land is cleared for farming, part of the carbon is released immediately into the atmosphere as a result of burning. The rest of the carbon, including that from roots and wood products, releases carbon as the wood decays over years and centuries, meaning that carbon from pre-industrial activities is still being emitted into the atmosphere. Furthermore, a part of carbon dioxide emissions remain in the atmosphere for many centuries, because the ocean and vegetation on land absorb carbon dioxide only slowly over time. As a result, there is a warming effect long after the initial clearing of land.

"The relatively small amounts of carbon dioxide emitted many centuries ago continue to affect atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations and our climate today, though only to a relatively small extent," Pongratz, who is now at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, said. "But looking into the past illustrates that the relatively large amount of carbon dioxide that we are emitting today will continue to have relatively large impacts on the atmosphere and climate for many centuries into the future."

Moreover, the effect of accounting for pre-industrial emissions can have important consequences for the amount of climate change attributed to certain regions. In some regions, such as North America, preindustrial clearing is only a small part of the total carbon picture because such massive quantities have been released by burning fossil fuels. But in other regions, particularly China and India, the ratio of preindustrial to industrial emissions is high.

The world's population increased about five-fold between 800 and 1850 AD and half that growth occurred in China and India. This led to substantial deforestation in the preindustrial era. On the other side of the coin, cumulative post-industrial fossil fuel carbon emissions for these nations are relatively low, only reaching substantial levels in recent years.

Using advanced models, Pongratz and Caldeira determined that accounting for pre-industrial emissions shifts attribution of global temperature from industrialized nations to developing nations by up to 2 to 3 %. For example, the study found that considering emissions from pre-industrial land-use change increases the amount of total global warming that can be attributed to emissions from South Asia (a region that includes India) from 5.1% to 7% -- an increase of 37% in the amount previously attributed to this region. Emissions from North America, Europe, and the former Soviet Union have caused more than half of all global warming, even though fewer people live in those regions combined than live in India alone.

The researchers note that their work is not intended to increase the blame on people living in the developing world today for our current climate problems based on what their ancestors did centuries ago, particularly considering the much larger climate impact being made by modern industrialized nations on a daily basis.

"Accounting systems are not natural facts, but human inventions," Caldeira said. "Once an accounting system is defined, it becomes a matter of scientific investigation to determine what numbers should go in the ledger, but broader questions of who is responsible for what and who owes what to whom are judgments that lie outside the scope of science."

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China gives N. Koreans economics lessons: reports

A group of North Korean officials and scholars is receiving training in China on the workings of special economic zones, news reports said Wednesday.

Yonhap news agency and Daily NK, a Seoul-based online newspaper, quoted sources as saying the group of about 20 officials and scholars arrived in the northeastern city of Tianjin in May.

They have been taking lessons from Chinese experts in operating, managing and attracting investment to such zones, Yonhap said.

The group is expected to stay for a total of two months and divide its time between economic theory and touring Chinese economic zones, it said.

All expenses were reportedly being covered by the Chinese government.

North Korea has designated two islands on its border with China and two northeastern port cities as special economic zones, but they have so far largely failed to attract investment from abroad.

China, the North's main benefactor, has repeatedly urged it to open up the crumbling state-directed economy. Many analysts say Pyongyang's regime views this as too great a political risk.

But Yang Moo-Jin of Seoul's University of North Korean Studies said new leader Kim Jong-Un is likely to be more aggressive in introducing market reforms than his late father Kim Jong-Un.

"Educated in the West and well acquainted with news from the outside, Kim Jong-Un is more open-minded than his late father towards the market economy," Yang told AFP.

"Once he firmly secures political stability, he has greater potential than his father to introduce openness and reform."

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Latest results from ATLAS Higgs search

ScienceDaily (July 4, 2012) ? On July 4, 2012, the ATLAS experiment presented a preview of its updated results on the search for the Higgs Boson. The results were shown at a seminar held jointly at CERN and via video link at ICHEP, the International Conference for High Energy Physics in Melbourne, Australia, where detailed analyses will be presented later this week. At CERN, preliminary results were presented to scientists on site and via webcast to their colleagues located in hundreds of institutions around the world.

"The search is more advanced today than we imagined possible," said ATLAS spokesperson Fabiola Gianotti. "We observe in our data clear signs of a new particle, at the level of 5 sigma, in the mass region around 126 GeV. The outstanding performance of the LHC and ATLAS and the huge efforts of many people have brought us to this exciting stage. A little more time is needed to finalize these results, and more data and more study will be needed to determine the new particle's properties."

The Higgs Boson is an unstable particle, living for only the tiniest fraction of a second before decaying into other particles, so experiments can observe it only by measuring the products of its decay. In the Standard Model, a highly successful physics theory that provides a very accurate description of matter, the Higgs Boson is expected to decay to several distinct combinations of particles, or channels, with the distribution among the channels depending on its mass.

ATLAS concentrated its efforts on two complementary channels: Higgs decays to either two photons or to four leptons. Both of these channels have excellent mass resolution; however, the two-photon channel has a modest signal over a large but measured background, and the four-lepton channel has a smaller signal but a very low background. Both channels show a statistically significant excess at about the same place: a mass of around 126 GeV. A statistical combination of these channels and others puts the significance of the signal at 5 sigma, meaning that only one experiment in three million would see an apparent signal this strong in a universe without a Higgs.

The current results are an update on previous analyses shown at a CERN seminar last December and published at the beginning of this year. The December results, based on 7 TeV proton collision data collected in 2011, limited the mass of the Higgs Boson to two narrow windows in the range between about 117 GeV and 129 GeV. A small excess of events above the expected background was seen by both ATLAS and CMS at around 126 GeV, about the mass of an iodine atom.

The next steps for ATLAS, the LHC and the high-energy physics community are to measure the properties of this particle and compare these measurements with the predicted properties of the Higgs Boson. Already some of these properties match the predictions: the fact that it is seen in the predicted channels and at a mass favoured by other, indirect measurements. In the weeks and months ahead, ATLAS will better measure these properties, enabling a clearer picture to emerge about whether this particle is the Higgs Boson, or the first of a larger family of such particles, or something else entirely.

The 2012 data set comes from proton collisions with an increased centre of mass energy of 8 TeV and includes more data (collected in only three months) than was collected in all of 2011. This rapid accumulation of data was possible thanks to the outstanding efforts of the LHC accelerator group. The data set presented at the seminar comes from approximately one quadrillion (million billion) proton collisions.

The ATLAS detector has performed remarkably well, even under the more difficult beam conditions of 2012, and has, with nearly full efficiency, collected high quality data for this search. Powerful computing provided by the worldwide LHC Computing Grid was essential for the reconstruction and analysis of the data.

The LHC is expected to provide ATLAS with double the data again by the end of the 2012, before the beginning of a long shutdown to upgrade the accelerator. When the machine starts up again toward the end of 2014, it will operate at nearly twice its current energy. The new 2012 data and the data generated by the improved accelerator will allow scientists to address the questions about the Higgs prompted by today's announcement as well as other questions fundamental to our knowledge of nature.

About ATLAS

Information about ATLAS can be found on the public web site [http://atlas.ch].

ATLAS is a particle physics experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. The ATLAS detector is searching for new phenomena in the head-on collisions of hadrons of extraordinarily high energy. ATLAS is studying the basic forces that have shaped our Universe since the beginning of time and that will determine its fate. Among the possible unknowns are the origin of mass, extra dimensions of space, the unification of fundamental forces, and evidence for dark matter candidates in the Universe.

At the time of writing, the ATLAS Collaboration comprises 3000 physicists from 176 institutions located in 38 different countries around the world. More than 1000 PhD students are involved in the operation of ATLAS and in the analysis of its data.

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Part of the genome of two hunter-gatherers from 7,000 years ago

ScienceDaily (June 28, 2012) ? A team of scientists, led by researcher Carles Lalueza-Fox from CSIC (Spanish National Research Council), has recovered part of the genome of two individuals who were alive in the Mesolithic Period, 7000 years ago.? The remains were found at La Bra?a-Arintero site, located at Valdelugueros (Le?n), Spain.

The study results, published in the Current Biology, indicate that current Iberian populations do not come from these recently discovered humans.

The Mesolithic Period, framed between the Paleolithic and Neolithic Periods, is characterized by the advent of agriculture, coming from the Middle East.

The genome found is the oldest from Prehistory, 1,700 years before ?tzi, the Iceman lived.

Researchers have also recovered the complete mitochondrial DNA of one of these individuals, through which they could determine that European populations from Mesolithic Period were very uniform genetically. Carles Lauleza-Fox, from the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC-UPF), states: "These hunters-gatherers shared nomadic habits and had a common origin. Despite their geographical distance, individuals from the regions corresponding to the current England, Germany, Lithuania, Poland, and Spain, shared the same mitochondrial lineage."

The DNA data, which represent the 1.34% and the 0.5% of both individuals total genome, show that they are not directly connected to current populations of the Iberian Peninsula. Iberians from the Mesolithic Period were closer to current populations of northern Europe, who could have assimilated part of the genetic legacy of these hunters-gatherers.

La Bra?a-Arintero site was discovered in 2006 by chance. Juan Manuel Vidal Encinas, archeologist from the Regional Government of Castilla y Le?n, who has also participated in the study, has excavated it at a later date. The cave, due to its location in a cold and mountainous area, is a suitable place for the good preservation of the DNA of these two individuals, found inside it.

The oldest remains from Prehistory

CSIC researcher emphasizes: "So far, we only had one genome of the European Prehistory, that of ?tzi [also known as the Iceman], from the Neolithic Period. His mummy, belonging to a man who lived 5300 years ago, was found in the Tyrolean Alps, on the border between Austria and Italy. La Bra?a-Arintero site offers a unique opportunity to obtain pre-Neolithic genomes."

According to Lalueza-Fox, this is only a first result since the intention of the team is to recover the complete DNA of these individuals, and to compare it with that of the modern humans. CSIC researcher discloses: "The arrival of the Neolithic Period brought about a replacement of populations, and could cause genetic changes in genes associated with new infectious diseases, and in metabolic genes linked to changes in diet. Therefore, all the information extracted from this genome will be absolutely important."

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