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Thursday, September 27, 2012

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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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Wednesday, September 26, 2012

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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Tuesday, September 25, 2012

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

particle physics, open access, Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics 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 SCOAP³will 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 SCOAP³may 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.

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

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Monday, September 24, 2012

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Sunday, September 23, 2012

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Check out our round-up of this week's best mommy and baby deals.

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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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