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Monday, November 28, 2011
Best Motivational Books For Small Businesses
Most entrepreneurs want to stay positive and upbeat. ?If we don?t we might succumb to defeat, and let down those who are counting on us: ?our employees, our customers, and our business partners.
That?s where motivational books come in. ?A good inspirational book can be reassuring. ?It helps you see that other business owners have encountered the same issues and overcame them. ?The right book can also motivate you to tackle the big issues you know you need to tackle, but so far haven?t had the energy or will to.
That?s why we?ve assembled the following list of 10 motivational books (plus one bonus) to inspire you, pump you up, and reinforce your confidence to take on the world! Here they are, in no particular order:
?Love Is the Killer App: How to Win Business and Influence Friends? by Tim Sanders, Gene Stone
This is the book that set the stage for business culture in the new world of the internet. Tim Sanders, former Chief Solutions officer at Yahoo!, sees love as the killer way to add value to our business and personal lives. He calls it BizLove or ?business love? ? ?the act of intelligently and sensibly sharing your intangibles with your bizpartners.? This is an enthusiastic and practical book that will give you countless examples of exactly HOW to share your knowledge, networks and compassion. Even though this book was written before Twitter and Facebook hit the social media landscape, the principles are sound and easily applicable to today?s social media environment.
Read our review of ?Love is the Killer App?
?Flying Without a Net: Turn Fear of Change into Fuel for Success? by Thomas J. DeLong
In this educational book, DeLong explains how to draw strength from vulnerability. First, understand the forces that escalate anxiety in high achievers and the unproductive behaviors you turn to for relief. Then adopt practices that give you the courage to ?do the right things poorly? before ?doing the right things well.? The jargon-free book delivers a helpful read that will give you a sophisticated means to accomplish your tasks with grace and aplomb. After reading this book, you?ll be ready to reassess your ambitions, restore your sensibilities be inspired to do more than just checking tasks off a list.
Read our review of ?Flying Without a Net?
?Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul? by Howard Schultz, ?Joanne Gordon
In this inspiring and motivational book, Howard Schultz; the Starbucks CEO tells a personal and engaging story of Starbucks? roller coaster rise, fall and slow resurgence. This book has plenty of valuable lessons about management and leadership, but you will learn more about the mindset and strategies of Schultz and what defines him as a person and as a leader. Because it?s written in the first person, this book reads more like a business biography, but you?ll find that the stories, and examples teach as well as inspire.
Read our review of ?
Source: http://smallbiztrends.com/2011/11/best-motivational-books.html
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Sunday, November 27, 2011
Motorola XT615 makes official FCC cameo
Yes, Motorola's latest slinky slim smartphone has just cleared the FCC, but before you get too excited, nothing about it has changed. From all appearances, the XT615 remains targeted solely at international markets with dual-band 2100 / 900MHz WCDMA. Of course, it's certainly usable here in the States (in a pinch), thanks to quad-band GSM support, but if you demand a svelte handset and blazing fast LTE, you're most certainly better off with its more powerful sibling. Aw, shucks.
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Saturday, November 26, 2011
Closer to a cure for eczema
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Scientists have found that a strain of yeast implicated in inflammatory skin conditions, including eczema, can be killed by certain peptides and could potentially provide a new treatment for these debilitating skin conditions. This research is published today in the Society for Applied Microbiology's journal, Letters in Applied Microbiology.
20% of children in the UK suffer from atopic eczema and whilst this usually clears up in adolescence, 7% of adults will continue to suffer throughout their lifetime. Furthermore, this type of eczema, characterized by dry, itchy, flaking skin, is increasing in prevalence. Whilst the cause of eczema remains unknown, one known trigger factor is the yeast Malassezia sympodialis.
This strain of yeast is one of the most common skin yeasts in both healthy individuals and those suffering from eczema. The skin barrier is more fragile and often broken in those suffering from such skin conditions, and this allows the yeast to cause infection which then further exacerbates the condition. Scientists at Karolinska Institute in Sweden looked for a way to kill Malassezia sympodialis without harming healthy human cells.
The researchers looked at the effect on the yeast of 21 peptides which had either; cell-penetrating or antimicrobial properties. Cell-penetrating peptides are often investigated as drug delivery vectors and are able to cross the cell membrane, although the exact mechanism for this is unknown. Antimicrobial peptides, on the other hand, are natural antibiotics and kill many different types of microbe including some bacteria, fungi and viruses.
Tina Holm and her colleagues at Stockholm University and Karolinska Institute, added these different peptides types to separate yeast colonies and assessed the toxicity of each peptide type to the yeast. They found that six of the 21 peptides they tested successfully killed the yeast without damaging the membrane of keratinocytes, human skin cells.
Tina commented "Many questions remain to be solved before these peptides can be used in humans. However, the appealing combination of being toxic to the yeast at low concentrations whilst sparing human cells makes them very promising as antifungal agents. We hope that these peptides in the future can be used to ease the symptoms of patients suffering from atopic eczema and significantly increase their quality of life."
The next step will be to further examine the mechanism(s) used by the peptides to kill yeast cells, in order to develop a potential treatment for eczema and other skin conditions.
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Faye Dunaway gives up NYC apt. after landlord sues (AP)
NEW YORK ? Faye Dunaway is moving on from a fight with a landlord over a New York City apartment ? by moving out.
The New York Times ( http://nyti.ms/supwCN) reported Wednesday the "Bonnie and Clyde" and "Chinatown" actress agreed this month to give up her rent-stabilized, $1,048-a-month Manhattan apartment.
The newspaper says an agreement filed last week gave her until this past Monday to move out. Her landlord's lawyer tells the newspaper she has.
Dunaway's agent has declined to comment.
The landlord sued Dunaway in August, seeking to evict her. The lawsuit said she didn't use the one-bedroom walk-up as her primary residence, as required by rent stabilization rules.
Dunaway's lawyers had said she planned to keep the apartment and wanted repairs made. She had rented it since 1994.
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Friday, November 25, 2011
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Love Isn't Easy. (OOC && Sign-Up)
Love Isn't Easy.
Plot
In most high schools around the world, you'll always find cliques, right? It as at Washington High School in Ohio. The "Golden Rule" at Washington High was to stay in your clique, and only in your clique. It was breaking the rule when you were to talk to someone else who was not in your group, and it was definitely against the rule to date anybody outside of your clique. If you did these things and anyone in your group found out, you would be considered a total outcast in the school. In Washington High, there are four main cliques. You had the preps who ruled the school, the nerds who were on the lower level of the chain, but they had brains and they are so intelligent. Then there are the musicians, they love the arts. The musicians can sing, dance, act, play instruments, you name it. Finally, you had your "others". The others were different, they were themselves, so they belong in a group all their own. In senior year of high school, things start to change. The young adults in the cliques come to a realization that... it was just stupid. They knew, however, if they broke the Golden Rule, they would become loners, who were at the very bottom of the chain. Eight people, a male and female from each clique, are chosen for a vacation over spring break, everything being paid for by the school, a vacation to Rome. A very romantic place. Sunday night, these different people board a plane, heading to Rome, not knowing anyone else. But while on vacation, sparks fly... but with someone different... someone from another clique. What will happen when the vacation ends and they go back in two weeks?
Rules
1.) Please no god-modding. Play your own character.
2.) Use realistic images only, no anime.
3.) Use the character templete I have provided.
4.) Keep all your cussing to a bare minimum.
5.) This is a semi-literate to a literate role-play, so be able to post more then just a paragraph. I understand writers block sometimes, but at LEAST avoid one-liners!
6.) To start out with, play one character, but after a couple of days and no one joins, you may double as a remaining character.
7.) To prove you read the rules, put your character's name in any color.
8.) Have a great time!
Characters
Prep Girl;;Raleigh Maria Collins;;Reserved for Aika
Prep Guy;;Noah Jo?l Nicholson;;Reserved for Winds of Fate
Nerd Girl;;_________;;
Nerd Guy;;__________;;
Musician Girl;;_________;;Reserved for Sarcasm
Musician Guy;;_________;;
Other Girl;;Umbriel Beatrix Merlin;;Reserved for Sorella
Other Guy;;_________;;
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[b]Character:[/b] [i]you you'll be playing.[/i]
[b]Age:[/b] [i]17-19.[/i]
[b]Physical Appearance:[/b] [i]please describe with detail.[/i]
[b]Personality:[/b] [i]detail.[/i]
[b]Secret Crush:[/b] [i]leave blank for now.[/i]
[b]Extra:[/b] [i]other information.[/i]
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Automotive accidents mapped out by state. Drive safe this ...
Looking for a reason to "drive carefully" as they say about holiday travel by car? This graphic from The Guardian of automotive accidents mapped out by state should be plenty of reason to get holiday drivers in the right frame of mind for going over the river and through the woods to grandmothers house.
"Auto travel remains the preferred method of travel this Thanksgiving with 38.2 million Americans traveling via automobile, also up 4 percent from last year. Auto travelers make up 90 percent of all holiday travelers," AAA said in a news release.
369,629 people died on America's roads between 2001 and 2009 and here we see the what would appear to be the areas of danger. Pretty much anyplace east of the Mississippi requires extra caution. Westerly drivers? Still take care, just because the population is a bit more sparse, does not mean the driving is easy.
On the west coast "You need to get where you're going to be by Wednesday, " Steve Anderson, a forecaster with the National Weather Service told the San Francisco Chronicle, adding "It's going to be wet, and snowy in the Sierra, on Thursday. It will be a good day to be inside."
AAA predicts there will be a 4 percent increase of Americans traveling 50 miles or more this Thanksgiving holiday. Be safe. Drive carefully. Live to tell about it.
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Diego Maradona lashes out at rival Al Ain coach
By MICHAEL CASEY
updated 8:29 a.m. ET Nov. 21, 2011
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Diego Maradona says an opposing coach's celebration was "not right and unacceptable" after his team lost a league match that ended with supporters being pelted with stones.
Maradona, who took over at United Arab Emirates club Al Wasl in May, was upset with the way Al Ain coach Cosmin Olaroiu celebrated the 1-0 victory on Saturday.
Maradona says "all that happened was not right and unacceptable in professional football."
Al Wasl also says that the Al Ain supporters threw stones at the fans and their cars as they were leaving the match.
Maradona left for Argentina on Sunday to attend the funeral of his mother, Dalma Salvadora Franco de Maradona. She died Saturday.
Copyright 2011 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Jamaica PM hints that elections may be next month (AP)
KINGSTON, Jamaica ? Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness hinted Sunday that parliamentary elections could come as early as next month, whipping tens of thousands of governing party supporters into campaign mode.
Speaking at a Jamaica Labor Party conference in the capital, Holness told participants he will call elections "in just a short time." Then he added that the Caribbean nation can't wait until next year to resolve uncertainty about his recently named government.
Elections must be held by December 2012, but Holness said the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and other international partners must know soon if voters will give him a mandate to govern debt-wracked Jamaica for the next five years.
"The uncertainties can't follow us into the new year. We have to resolve those uncertainties this year," he said at the National Arena, where thousands of cheering, vuvuzela-blowing supporters waved flags and banners while dressed in the party's color of green.
The crowd chanted, "Call it Andrew, call it!"
But Holness said the party was first "checking to make sure that our systems are ready" across the island's 63 constituencies.
"Return home to your communities, to your polling divisions with the message that you are now on your mark," he told the crowd.
The 39-year-old Holness was sworn in as prime minister on Oct. 23, ushering in a government that he said would heal political divisions, root out corruption, reduce debt and bureaucracy and attract foreign investment to reduce poverty.
He took over from Bruce Golding, who stepped down after four years as prime minister during which his popularity sagged because of his fight with the U.S. over an U.S. extradition request for a notorious Jamaican gang leader. Holness was education minister under Golding and has kept that portfolio as the island's leader.
Most analysts have been predicting that Holness will call elections soon rather than allow tough economic realities to weigh down his early days as prime minister. Jamaica has seen two quarters of economic growth this year, but average Jamaicans continue to struggle.
Most of Holness' speech Sunday was made up sober reminders of the difficulties facing Jamaicans, including the island's punishing debt. The debt stood at roughly $18.5 billion at the end of August for Jamaica, which has a population of roughly 2.8 million people.
"Some of us have lost hope in our institutions," he said. "Some of us have lost faith in the future."
On Saturday, the opposition People's National Party announced it has finalized its slate of candidates for all 63 constituencies for the next election and is ready if the vote comes in December.
Party leader Portia Simpson Miller, a former prime minister, is appealing to Jamaica's poor majority. At a Saturday night rally in the poor Kingston community of Papine, she pledged to end the island's general consumption tax on food staples such as cornmeal and on electricity.
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Khmer Rouge No. 2 says regime acted for Cambodians (AP)
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia ? The Khmer Rouge's second-highest leader says the regime acted for the sake of the Cambodian people and to protect the country from invaders.
Nuon Chea told the U.N.-backed tribunal Tuesday that it was failing to consider the complete story behind the Khmer Rouge. The tribunal is trying him and two other Khmer Rouge leaders for crimes against humanity and other charges of atrocities committed under the 1970s regime.
All three avow they are innocent. Nuon Chea was the chief ideologist for the communist movement and its No. 2 leader behind Pol Pot.
They are accused of being responsible for the deaths of 1.7 million people when the Khmer Rouge held power in 1975-79.
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Iran minister says sanctions a "lose-lose game" (Reuters)
TEHRAN (Reuters) ? Iran's trade minister said Monday sanctions were hitting the economy but warned Western countries threatening to tighten the measures that they were harming their own interests.
In a change of tone from Tehran's usual line that sanctions have not damaged the economy, Minister of Industry, Mine and Commerce Mehdi Ghazanfari said the West was losing out too.
"Sanctions are a lose-lose game in which both side make a loss. If they don't invest in our oil projects, they will lose an appealing market," Ghazanfari told a news conference.
The comments came ahead of an expected announcement by the U.S. Treasury Department later Monday designating Iran an area of "primary money laundering concern" a move allowing it to take steps to further isolate Iran's financial sector.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has often said sanctions are having little effect on the economy and in some cases have made it stronger by making Iran find domestic solutions to economic challenges.
Ghazanfari reiterated the stance that Iran had found alternatives to Western imports and investments, but did not deny the downside.
"Facing hardship in a fight is inevitable. I admit projects will get harder as our trading costs will go up, delays will hit projects and money transfer will get harder," he said.
"There is a difference between hardship and the impossible. (Sanctions) will never make the running of the country impossible. There are dozens of possible ways for us to connect to the world and we are not yet using all of them."
The U.N. Security Council has imposed four rounds of sanctions on Iran since 2006 but Russia and China oppose any further ones, leaving the United States to issue unilateral measures and pressure its allies to follow suit.
After the U.N.'s atomic agency said last week the Islamic state appeared to have worked on designing an atom bomb, Washington has lined up new sanctions on Iran's petrochemical industry, sources have told Reuters.
Ghazanfari said several Western countries remained major trading partners for Iran, citing Germany, Switzerland, France, Italy among the top ten countries exporting to Iran.
(Writing by Ramin Mostafavi; Editing by Rosalind Russell)
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Monday, November 21, 2011
[OOC] Pairings
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Forum for completely Out of Character (OOC) discussion, based around whatever is happening In Character (IC). Discuss plans, storylines, and events; Recruit for your roleplaying game, or find a GM for your playergroup.So for the pairings, each guy is going to pick the top two girls he'd like his chachter with. One of them will be his mate, the other will be his true love. So even if some is picked twice, they dont have to fight over her. (fun as that may be.) One person will have them as their mate, the other will have her as their true love. I pick the mate/true love part.
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Sunday, November 20, 2011
Afghanistan national assembly backs pact with US
An Afghan delegate speaks to the committee members on the third day of the loya jirga or grand council in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Nov. 18, 2011. Afghan President Hamid Karzai spoke Wednesday on the opening day of the meeting where the elders are discussing negotiations under way for a U.S.-Afghan agreement to govern the presence of U.S. troops after 2014, when most international forces are to have left or moved into support roles. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
An Afghan delegate speaks to the committee members on the third day of the loya jirga or grand council in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Nov. 18, 2011. Afghan President Hamid Karzai spoke Wednesday on the opening day of the meeting where the elders are discussing negotiations under way for a U.S.-Afghan agreement to govern the presence of U.S. troops after 2014, when most international forces are to have left or moved into support roles. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
An Afghan delegate, Mahmood Khan Sulaiman Khial, left, gestures as he speaks with a colleague Gul Badshah Majidi on the third day of loya jirga or grand council in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Nov. 18, 2011. Afghan President Hamid Karzai spoke Wednesday on the opening day of the meeting where the elders are discussing negotiations under way for a U.S.-Afghan agreement to govern the presence of U.S. troops after 2014, when most international forces are to have left or moved into support roles. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
An Afghan woman delegate, center, speaks for her committee members on the third day of loya jirga or grand council in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Nov. 18, 2011. Afghan President Hamid Karzai spoke Wednesday on the opening day of the meeting where the elders are discussing negotiations under way for a U.S.-Afghan agreement to govern the presence of U.S. troops after 2014, when most international forces are to have left or moved into support roles. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) ? A majority of delegates at a national assembly are endorsing a call by Afghanistan's president for a long-term security pact with the United States.
By midday Saturday, more than two-thirds of the delegates say they will support Hamid Karzai's call for a security pact, but only if the United States accepts some conditions.
The pact will govern the presence of U.S. troops after 2014, when most international forces are to have left or moved into support roles.
The conditions include an end to nighttime kill-and-capture raids by foreign troops, which NATO says is the most effective weapon so far against the insurgency.
The meeting's findings are not binding, but they are likely to bolster Karzai's negotiating position. More than 2,000 people are attending.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) ? Afghan and NATO authorities say two Afghan policemen have died in a friendly fire incident outside the city of Ghazni in eastern Afghanistan.
Ghazni provincial governor Musa Akbar Zada says two other policemen were wounded in the incident at a checkpoint Friday.
He says NATO forces were conducting an operation that was not coordinated with Afghan forces. He says that when the coalition forces ignored Afghan police orders to stop, shots were fired and the policemen were in killed in a gunbattle.
The U.S.-led military coalition says a joint Afghan and NATO force called for air support and tried several times to identify themselves as friendly forces.
When they were unable to stop the threat, they engaged in self-defense, killing the two.
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Climate Change Panel Predicts More Intense Weather Events (ContributorNetwork)
According to NPR, a recent meeting of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which included more than 200 scientists, concluded with a report stating it expects climate change to bring more intense weather events. The panel specifically noted more rainfall, heat waves and other natural disasters are in the forecast as a result of climate change.
The IPCC notes the frequency of heavy rainfall will likely increase this century in many different regions. Additionally, more powerful hurricanes and typhoons are likely to occur, but these events will see a gradual, small increase instead of a steep one. With the debut of this report, here are some facts about climate change:
* Since the industrial revolution, the burning of fuel and constant deforestation has led to the release of greenhouse gases, especially carbon dioxide, in the atmosphere, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
* These greenhouse gases prevent heat from re-entering space and create a warming effect, also known as global warming or climate change, on the earth.
* The Washington State Department of Ecology notes while climate change can impact weather events, it also has the potential to impact agriculture, human health, water resources, and energy use.
* Despite the fact there is a warming trend, different regions will experience changes differently as well and there is the possibility that a few areas could see temperatures drop instead of increasing.
* In the late 1990s, numerous nations attempted to join together to establish the Kyoto Protocol, a treaty designed to ensure countries would commit to combating climate change.
* The U.S. failed to ratify the treaty over concerns that China and India would not have to follow the outlined changes or commit to reducing their own emissions.
* Nearly a decade later in Copenhagen, Denmark, world leaders met again to discuss and reach agreements on the growing concern of global warming.
* The 2009 summit focused on the dispute between the U.S. and China and if the nations couldn't agree it could have potentially killed any further international agreements at the summit.
* President Barack Obama also attended and spoke at the summit to help work out disagreements over China joining the pledge and although they fell short of expectations, agreements were finally reached.
Rachel Bogart provides an in-depth look at current environmental issues and local Chicago news stories. As a college student from the Chicago suburbs pursuing two science degrees, she applies her knowledge and passion to both topics to garner further public awareness.
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Saturday, November 19, 2011
Separating signal and noise in climate warming
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LIVERMORE, Calif. -- In order to separate human-caused global warming from the "noise" of purely natural climate fluctuations, temperature records must be at least 17 years long, according to climate scientists.
To address criticism of the reliability of thermometer records of surface warming, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists analyzed satellite measurements of the temperature of the lower troposphere (the region of the atmosphere from the surface to roughly five miles above) and saw a clear signal of human-induced warming of the planet.
Satellite measurements of atmospheric temperature are made with microwave radiometers, and are completely independent of surface thermometer measurements. The satellite data indicate that the lower troposphere has warmed by roughly 0.9 degrees Fahrenheit since the beginning of satellite temperature records in 1979. This increase is entirely consistent with the warming of Earth's surface estimated from thermometer records.
Recently, a number of global warming critics have focused attention on the behavior of Earth's temperature since 1998. They have argued that there has been little or no warming over the last 10 to 12 years, and that computer models of the climate system are not capable of simulating such short "hiatus periods" when models are run with human-caused changes in greenhouse gases.
"Looking at a single, noisy 10-year period is cherry picking, and does not provide reliable information about the presence or absence of human effects on climate said Benjamin Santer, a climate scientist and lead author on an article in the Nov. 17 online edition of the Journal of Geophysical Research (Atmospheres).
Many scientific studies have identified a human "fingerprint" in observations of surface and lower tropospheric temperature changes. These detection and attribution studies look at long, multi-decade observational temperature records. Shorter periods generally have small signal to noise ratios, making it difficult to identify an anthropogenic signal with high statistical confidence, Santer said.
"In fingerprinting, we analyze longer, multi-decadal temperature records, and we beat down the large year-to-year temperature variability caused by purely natural phenomena (like El Nios and La Nias). This makes it easier to identify a slowly-emerging signal arising from gradual, human-caused changes in atmospheric levels of greenhouse gases," Santer said.
The LLNL-led research shows that climate models can and do simulate short, 10- to 12-year "hiatus periods" with minimal warming, even when the models are run with historical increases in greenhouse gases and sulfate aerosol particles. They find that tropospheric temperature records must be at least 17 years long to discriminate between internal climate noise and the signal of human-caused changes in the chemical composition of the atmosphere.
"One individual short-term trend doesn't tell you much about long-term climate change," Santer said. "A single decade of observational temperature data is inadequate for identifying a slowly evolving human-caused warming signal. In both the satellite observations and in computer models, short, 10-year tropospheric temperature trends are strongly influenced by the large noise of year-to-year climate variability."
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The research team is made up of Santer and Livermore colleagues Charles Doutriaux, Peter Caldwell, Peter Gleckler, Detelina Ivanova, and Karl Taylor, and includes collaborators from Remote Sensing Systems, the National Center for Atmospheric Research, the University of Colorado, the Canadian Centre for Climate Modeling and Analysis, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.K. Meteorology Office Hadley Centre, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
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LIVERMORE, Calif. -- In order to separate human-caused global warming from the "noise" of purely natural climate fluctuations, temperature records must be at least 17 years long, according to climate scientists.
To address criticism of the reliability of thermometer records of surface warming, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists analyzed satellite measurements of the temperature of the lower troposphere (the region of the atmosphere from the surface to roughly five miles above) and saw a clear signal of human-induced warming of the planet.
Satellite measurements of atmospheric temperature are made with microwave radiometers, and are completely independent of surface thermometer measurements. The satellite data indicate that the lower troposphere has warmed by roughly 0.9 degrees Fahrenheit since the beginning of satellite temperature records in 1979. This increase is entirely consistent with the warming of Earth's surface estimated from thermometer records.
Recently, a number of global warming critics have focused attention on the behavior of Earth's temperature since 1998. They have argued that there has been little or no warming over the last 10 to 12 years, and that computer models of the climate system are not capable of simulating such short "hiatus periods" when models are run with human-caused changes in greenhouse gases.
"Looking at a single, noisy 10-year period is cherry picking, and does not provide reliable information about the presence or absence of human effects on climate said Benjamin Santer, a climate scientist and lead author on an article in the Nov. 17 online edition of the Journal of Geophysical Research (Atmospheres).
Many scientific studies have identified a human "fingerprint" in observations of surface and lower tropospheric temperature changes. These detection and attribution studies look at long, multi-decade observational temperature records. Shorter periods generally have small signal to noise ratios, making it difficult to identify an anthropogenic signal with high statistical confidence, Santer said.
"In fingerprinting, we analyze longer, multi-decadal temperature records, and we beat down the large year-to-year temperature variability caused by purely natural phenomena (like El Nios and La Nias). This makes it easier to identify a slowly-emerging signal arising from gradual, human-caused changes in atmospheric levels of greenhouse gases," Santer said.
The LLNL-led research shows that climate models can and do simulate short, 10- to 12-year "hiatus periods" with minimal warming, even when the models are run with historical increases in greenhouse gases and sulfate aerosol particles. They find that tropospheric temperature records must be at least 17 years long to discriminate between internal climate noise and the signal of human-caused changes in the chemical composition of the atmosphere.
"One individual short-term trend doesn't tell you much about long-term climate change," Santer said. "A single decade of observational temperature data is inadequate for identifying a slowly evolving human-caused warming signal. In both the satellite observations and in computer models, short, 10-year tropospheric temperature trends are strongly influenced by the large noise of year-to-year climate variability."
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The research team is made up of Santer and Livermore colleagues Charles Doutriaux, Peter Caldwell, Peter Gleckler, Detelina Ivanova, and Karl Taylor, and includes collaborators from Remote Sensing Systems, the National Center for Atmospheric Research, the University of Colorado, the Canadian Centre for Climate Modeling and Analysis, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.K. Meteorology Office Hadley Centre, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Founded in 1952, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (http://www.llnl.gov) provides solutions to our nation's most important national security challenges through innovative science, engineering and technology. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is managed by Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC for the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration.
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Friday, November 18, 2011
Countering China, Obama asserts US a Pacific power (AP)
CANBERRA, Australia ? Signaling a determination to counter a rising China, President Barack Obama vowed Thursday to expand U.S. influence in the Asia-Pacific region and "project power and deter threats to peace" in that part of the world even as he reduces defense spending and winds down two wars.
"The United States is a Pacific power, and we are here to stay," he declared in a speech to the Australian Parliament, sending an unmistakable message to Beijing.
Obama's bullish speech came several hours after announcing he would send military aircraft and up to 2,500 Marines to northern Australia for a training hub to help allies and protect American interests across Asia. He declared the U.S. is not afraid of China, by far the biggest and most powerful country in the region.
China immediately questioned the U.S. move and said it deserved further scrutiny.
Emphasizing that a U.S. presence in the Asia-Pacific region is a top priority of his administration, Obama stressed that any reductions in U.S. defense spending will not come at the expense of that goal.
"Let there be no doubt: in the Asia Pacific in the 21st century, the United States of America is all in," he said.
From Canberra, Obama flew to the northern city of Darwin, where some of the U.S. Marines bound for Australia will be based. Obama was to visit a military base and speak to U.S. and Australian troops.
Obama's visit marked the first time a sitting U.S. president has been to Darwin, where U.S. and Australian forces were killed in a Japanese attack during World War II. The president was to lay a wreath at a memorial for the USS Peary, a Navy destroyer that was sunk during that battle.
For Obama, Asia represents both a security challenge and an economic opportunity. Speaking in broad geopolitical terms, the president asserted: "With most of the world's nuclear powers and some half of humanity, Asia will largely define whether the century ahead will be marked by conflict or cooperation, needless suffering or human progress."
Virtually everything Obama is doing on his nine-day trip across the Asia-Pacific region has a Chinese subtext, underscoring a relationship that is at once cooperative and marked by tensions over currency, human rights and military might.
China's military spending has increased threefold since the 1990s to about $160 billion last year, and its military recently tested a new stealth jet fighter and launched its first aircraft carrier. A congressional advisory panel on Wednesday urged the White House and Congress to look more closely at China's military expansion and pressed for a tougher stance against what it called anticompetitive Chinese trade policies.
The expanded basing agreement with Australia is just one of several initiatives Obama has taken that is likely to set Beijing on edge at a tricky time. The U.S. is China's second largest trading partner, and the economies are deeply intertwined. Chinese leaders don't want the economy disrupted when global growth is shaky and they are preparing to transfer power to a new leadership next year.
Over the weekend while playing host to Chinese President Hu Jintao and other Pacific rim leaders at a summit in Hawaii, Obama said the U.S. would join a new regional free trade group that so far has excluded China. That added an economic dimension to what some Chinese commentators have called a new U.S. containment policy that features reinvigorated defense ties with nations along China's perimeter, from traditional allies Japan and the Philippines to former enemy Vietnam, all of whom are anxious about growing Chinese power.
China was immediately leery of the prospect of an expanded U.S. military presence in Australia. Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Weimin said there should be discussion as to whether the plan was in line with the common interests of the international community.
Responding to questions at a news conference Wednesday with Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, Obama sought to downplay tension between the world powers. "The notion that we fear China is mistaken," he said.
Obama avoided a confrontational tone with China in his speech to the Australian parliament, praising Beijing as a partner in reducing tensions on the Korean Peninsula and preventing proliferation.
"We'll seek more opportunities for cooperation with Beijing, including greater communication between our militaries to promote understanding and avoid miscalculation," he said.
In a note of caution, however, he added: "We will do this, even as continue to speak candidly with Beijing about the importance of upholding international norms and respecting the universal human rights of the Chinese people."
With military bases and tens of thousands of troops in Japan and South Korea, the United States has maintained a significant military presence in Asia for decades. Australia lies about 5,500 miles south of China, and its northern shores would give the U.S. easier access to the South China Sea, a vital commercial route.
The plan outlined by Obama will allow the United States to keep a sustained force on Australian bases and position equipment and supplies there, giving the U.S. ability to train with allies in the region and respond more quickly to humanitarian or other crises. U.S. officials said the pact was not an attempt to create a permanent American military presence in Australia.
About 250 U.S. Marines will begin a rotation in northern Australia starting next year, with a full force of 2,500 military personnel staffing up over the next several years. The United States will bear the cost of the deployment and the troops will be shifted from other deployments around the world. Having ruled out military reductions in Asia and the Pacific, the Obama administration has three main areas where it could cut troop strength: Europe, the Middle East and the U.S.
All U.S. troops are being withdrawn from Iraq by the end of this year, and a drawdown in Afghanistan is underway. But the Pentagon has said recently that the U.S. will maintain a major presence in the greater Middle East as a hedge against Iranian aggression and influence. A more likely area for troop reductions is Europe, although no decisions have been announced.
The debate over defense budgets is just one aspect of a broader political fight over fixing the nation's debt problem during a presidential election season. Already, the Pentagon is facing $450 billion in cuts over ten years, as part of a budget deal approved last summer. And if a special congressional committee can't agree on $1.2 trillion in more long-term cuts or Congress rejects its plan, then cuts of $1.2 trillion kick in, with half coming from defense.
Australia's Gillard said, "We are a region that is growing economically. But stability is important for economic growth, too." She said that "our alliance has been a bedrock of stability in our region."
Obama's visit is intended to show the tightness of that relationship and he hailed the long ties between the United States and Australia, two nations far away that have spilled blood together
"From the trenches of the First World War to the mountains of Afghanistan_Aussies and Americans have stood together, fought together and given their lives together in every single major conflict of the past hundred years. Every single one," he said.
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Associated Press writers Erica Werner and Rod McGuirk in Canberra and Robert Burns in Washington contributed to this report.
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Defense witness in Murray case faces contempt fine
LOS ANGELES (AP) ? A scientist who was the star defense witness in the trial of Michael Jackson's doctor will be in court Wednesday to fight a threatened $1,000 fine for contempt.
Dr. Paul White is a pioneer in the use of the anesthetic propofol. He clashed with Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor over comments in and out of court during Dr. Conrad Murray's trial.
Pastor says White deliberately brought up banned information in his testimony.
Pastor is giving White a chance to appear Wednesday and explain why he should not be found in direct contempt of court and fined $1,000. A member of the trial defense team, Michael Flanagan, is representing him.
Murray is in jail awaiting sentencing for involuntary manslaughter in Jackson's death and is not required to attend the hearing.
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Thursday, November 17, 2011
Ex-porn star's school appearance prompts review (AP)
COMPTON, Calif. ? Officials of a California school system plan to meet with the agent who schedules celebrity guests to read to children after some parents complained that having a former adult film star as a participant was inappropriate.
A Compton Unified School District statement says the outside talent coordinator listed Sasha Grey as an actress who had appeared in the HBO show "Entourage" when she was proposed as a participant in the Guest Reading Program at Emerson Elementary School this month. Grey's previous experience in adult films wasn't mentioned.
The district says it will review the selection process with the coordinator to avoid any potentially controversial readers in the future.
The district clarified that the Guest Reading Program is not associated with the National Education Association's annual March event Read Across America.
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Wednesday, November 16, 2011
HP Wireless Audio streams audio from your PC, arrives next month for $100 (video)
Yep, HP's on a tear today. In addition to unleashing a trio of redesigned Envy laptops, a refreshed dm4 and one aggressively priced Ultrabook, it has some news to share on the accessories front. The outfit unveiled its Wireless Audio system, which lets you stream audio files from your PC to as many as four compatible speakers. In terms of setup, that photo up there says almost everything: you plug a thumb-sized dongle into your USB port and a larger receiver into the speaker. In the box, you'll also find a software CD to fill in the missing UI piece. The big caveat here (aside from the relative messiness of connecting two intermediary pieces of equipment) is that the system only works with speakers that are compatible with KleerNet's wireless audio technology. In all, the system uses three frequencies (2.4, 5.2 and 5.8GHz) to cut latency and interference, and also supports 5.1 audio. You can pair it with up to four speakers, as we said, so long as they're within 100 feet of your laptop. It'll go on sale next month for $100, with one receiver and transmitter per box. If you're curious, we've got the full PR after the break, along with a short promo video.
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Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Prostate cancer 'link with Pill'
14 November 2011
Last updated at 22:09 ET
Scientists say research is needed to ascertain if oral contraceptive pill use could be fuelling rising prostate cancer rates.
Canadian investigators told the BMJ that they have found a possible link.
But experts stress this is not proof that one causes the other and it might be a fluke finding.
The researchers believe oestrogen by-products excreted in the urine of pill-users may have contaminated the food chain and drinking water.
The hormone is known to feed the growth of certain cancers.
The latest investigation looked at data from 2007 for individual nations and continents worldwide to see if there was any link.
The researchers found a significant association between contraceptive pill use in the population as a whole with both the number of new cases of, and deaths from, prostate cancer.
This link was irrespective of the nation's wealth, suggesting it might not be down to better disease detection in more affluent countries that also tend to have higher rates of oral contraceptive use.
And it was strongest in Europe.
Additionally, they found no link between prostate cancer and other forms of contraception, like the coil, suggesting it is not something that is sexually transmitted or associated with intercourse itself.
'Thought-provoking'Drs David Margel and Neil Fleshner, from Toronto University, fear that contamination of the food chain with hormones originating from the pill are the likely culprit.
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They stress that their work merely suggests a link and is not proof.
"It must be considered hypothesis generating and thought-provoking," they say in their BMJ Open report.
They said more investigations are needed and recommend close monitoring of environmental levels of oral contraceptive by-products or endocrine disruptive compounds (EDCs).
Dr Kate Holmes, of The Prostate Cancer Charity, agreed that more research was warranted.
"While this study raises some interesting questions about the presence of EDCs in the environment, it does not contribute to our overall understanding of the development of prostate cancer."
Jessica Harris, of Cancer Research UK, said uncertainty about the disease remained.
"Comparing the rates of two apparently unrelated issues across countries is a notoriously unreliable way of establishing whether they are truly linked, because so many things vary between different countries that it's impossible to say whether one thing is causing the other.
"It has been difficult to identify factors that affect the risk of prostate cancer, but we know that men are at higher risk as they get older, or if they have a strong family history of breast or prostate cancer. The disease is also more common in black men than white or Asian men."
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/health-15720478
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Justin Timberlake attends Marine Corps ball
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On Saturday, the 30-year-old singer-actor attended the Marine Corps Ball with Cpl. Kelsey De Santis in Richmond, Va.?
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He wrote on his website that the event "turned out to be one of the most moving evenings I've ever had."?
As for De Santis? "She seemed to be so humble and honest ... Very cool," he wrote. "She also simultaneously seemed like she was nervous about the whole evening and if I was going to enjoy myself ... I have to tell you, it's not every day that I meet a 23 year old girl and she's more worried about if I'm having fun or if I'm comfortable! It hit me all of a sudden that these were the type of people that look after us and our freedom ... Humble, concerned for others before themselves ... This was the type of person our Marine Corps was building. I was really blown away."
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A video montage of Pearl Harbor, World War II and the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks "almost brought [Timberlake] to tears." He wrote that it was "a surreal moment to be in that room with so many of our great Marines who have such a different type of connection to those stories."
How did Timberlake end up at the ball? In July, his "Friends with Benefits" costar Mila Kunis was first invited to the Nov. 18 Marine Corps Ball in Greenville, N.C., by Sgt. Scott Moore. The marine made a YouTube video asking Kunis, 28, to be his date to the fete.
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After Timberlake encouraged Kunis to accept Moore's invitation, De Santis followed suit, also inviting the "In Time" star to a Marine Corps ball via YouTube. "If you can't go," De Santis said in the clip. "All I have to say is cry me a river! Hit me up."?
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When asked at a Cancun press conference this summer whether he intended to attend the ball, Timberlake said yes. "But not because she shouted out one of my songs, which I do love," he said. "And not because she had all those beefcake military guys behind her to try to intimidate me ? although that probably would have worked by itself. I don't get asked out ever! So I was very flattered by that."
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Timberlake wrote that he was "proud to be [at the Corps Ball]" and "felt like I was getting a chance to be among my heroes. It's funny too because a lot of them are SO younger than me."?
"I've met so many of my heroes ? from Michael Jordan to Michael Jackson ? and nothing makes me feel more honor and pride than when I get to meet one of you," Timberlake added, referring to those who serve. "Last night changed my life and I will never forget it."
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