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Saturday, July 20, 2013
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Astronomers Spot Another Moon Around Neptune
Astronomers have detected a previously unseen moon orbiting Neptune, bringing the planet's moon count to 14. Mark Showalter, an astronomer at the SETI Institute, describes how he spotted the 12-mile moon while combing through old images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.
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Friday, July 19, 2013
MTV Comic-Con Live: 'World's End,' 'Walking Dead' Casts Live From San Diego!
Watch seven hours of continuous live coverage, interviews and news on MTV.com.
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As The Series A Crunch Tightens, Teams of Coders Are Looking To Find New Jobs On DeveloperAuction
DeveloperAuction, an online marketplace that lets startups submit salary bids to talented engineers, has expanded to allow teams of coders and designers to put themselves up for auction as a group. ?As a general trend around the Series-A Crunch, we've seen a huge influx of talent on our marketplace in the last two months who are on there because their current company has been unable to secure fundingSource: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/BRci-2DVP2I/
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Celebrities pay tribute to 'very special girl' Talia after losing battle to cancer
18 JULY 2013 Celebrities have paid tribute to Talia Joy Castellano, the 13-year-old YouTube star, who passed away on Tuesday after six years?battling cancer.
Stars took to Twitter to honour the inspirational teen, who created her own YouTube channel?which included make-up tutorials and personal video blogs about her cancer treatments, and which accumulated?more than 750,000 subscribers.
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Talk show host Ellen DeGeneres, 55, led the tributes following the teen's death."This year I met a very special girl, and today we lost her. Sending my heart to Talia's family. I'm so sad," she tweeted early on Tuesday morning.
Later in the day, Ellen posted an image of Talia in a mock-up of a CoverGirl campaign to her Instagram account, with the caption "In Loving Memory".
Modern Family actress Sofia Vergara, who is currently?holidaying in Mykonos,?took to her Twitter to pay tribute to the smiley star. "My heart and thoughts are with Talia, the most beautiful & inspiring @Covergirl ever and with her loving family," she wrote.
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Television producer Ryan Seacrest also?tweeted his condolences, saying "I only met you once, but your memory is strong and your light will shine on. #riptalia."Talia came to the public's attention when she?met?Ellen on The Ellen DeGeneres show in September 2012, after fans of the Youtube sensation started a campaign to make her?dream of meeting the talk show host come true.
"You really are quite something. There's a depth to your soul that is not a 13-year-old soul," Ellen said during her interview with Talia.
"You're an old soul, and you are very special and amazing, and I'm so honoured that you wanted to meet me and that I got to meet you," she continued.
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Talia was diagnosed with neuroblastoma in 2009 and had more recently been diagnosed with myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS), an illness formerly known as preleukemia.The star's ultimate goal was to raise awareness about what it was like to suffer with cancer and share her experiences along the way through her videos.
In an interview with The Truth 365, Talia was asked how she would like to be remembered.
"In a hundred years, I would like to be remembered as the bubbly girl who wanted to do something about childhood cancer," she said.
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Thursday, July 18, 2013
Couple Wins House Energy Retrofit And C-Max Energi PHEV ...
A lucky couple will soon be at the wheel of a C-Max Energi plug-in hybrid.
The winners of the Ford-led MyEnergi Lifestyle Retrofit contest ? designed to showcase how a typical American family can affordably move to an energy-efficient lifestyle ? are Lindsay and Ben Sattler of Parker, Colo.
Ben Sattler teaches alternative fuels and home energy efficiency courses to inner-city school children, while Lindsay ensures the Sattlers keep a sustainable home life.
As the second winners of a MyEnergi Lifestyle retrofit, the Sattlers will receive a grand prize package enabling them to integrate today?s plug-in vehicle technology, smart appliances and solar energy into their home to reduce their electricity bills and carbon emissions.
In May, Susan Berry of Ventura, Calif., won a MyEnergi Lifestyle giveaway on the ?Katie? show.
?Ford is making yet another American home more energy efficient as part of its global commitment to a better world,? says Mike Tinskey, global director of vehicle electrification and infrastructure for Ford. ?By combining the latest technologies such as the Ford C-Max Energi plug-in hybrid, energy-efficient appliances and renewable energy generation, the Sattler family should see up to a 60 percent reduction in energy costs and a 55 percent reduction in CO2.?
Ford said leaders in the home appliance, renewable energy and power management industries ? including Eaton, SunPower, Whirlpool, Infineon and Nest Labs ? are collaborating with Ford on the initiative.
?Winning the MyEnergi Lifestyle Retrofit contest is truly life-changing for us,? says Lindsay Sattler. ?Now, we have the freedom to bless others with the money we?re saving, and more opportunities to live out what my husband teaches to his students.?
Thousands of families entered the nationwide contest, according to Ford. The Sattlers won on the strength of an essay Lindsay wrote detailing the family?s passion for sustainability and what they do to live an energy-efficient lifestyle.
?We are always trying to find new ways we can use less energy and save more money to make life a little more enjoyable,? Lindsay wrote.
Energy-saving technologies have advanced as Americans? energy use has increased.
In 1930, the average American home used 500 kilowatt-hours of electricity; today, the figure is 11,000 ? an increase of 2,100 percent. The MyEnergi Lifestyle initiative demonstrates how a typical American family can optimize its energy output.
MyEnergi Lifestyle works by leveraging technology so key energy-consuming devices in a home use less energy, while also shifting energy usage to less expensive periods.
The Sattlers have won a 2013 Ford C-Max Energi plug-in hybrid vehicle; Eaton solar inverter, solar-ready load center with surge protection, electric vehicle supply equipment and generator; five-kilowatt SunPower system; Nest learning thermostat; Powerhouse dynamic eMonitor; Whirlpool brand smart dishwasher, smart washer and dryer, smart refrigerator and hybrid heat pump water heater.
Ford said that if every home in the country were to adopt a MyEnergi Lifestyle like the Sattlers are doing, it would be the equivalent of taking all the homes in California, New York and Texas off the power grid? That?s 32 million homes.
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Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Nelson Mandela's legacy -- and its limits
When talk turns to the legacy of Nelson Mandela, who turns 95 on Thursday, I remember one of my most memorable moments in journalism.
It was 1985, and I was in South Africa as part of ?Nightline?s? coverage of that nation, still under the apartheid rule of the white minority government. Through a chain of contacts, we?d arranged an interview with African National Congress official named Patrick Lekota, who was being hunted by authorities for treason. His nickname, ?Terror,? might have given credibility to the accusation, except that it came from his aggressive play on the soccer field.Lekota talked of the life he had led before he?d gone underground; a life that included time on Robben Island, the prison where Mandela had been held for 18of his 27 years in custody. Lekota also spoke of harassment by the government and the deaths by official hand of many of his colleagues.
He also said that before going underground, he'd spent many nights driving a sound track around Soweto, South Africa?s largest black township. He played speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy--speeches that urged anon-violent struggle.
Why,I asked Lekota, after all you and your colleagues have gone through, after all that has been inflicted on the black majority, do you embrace non-violence?
Because,he said, ?if we win with bloodshed...we will have lost.?There is no way to minimize, or trivialize, the meaning of what Nelson Mandela did in waging the non-violent fight against apartheid as he did.
Five years after that trip to South Africa, I went back and heard the just-freed Mandela give a speech to a rapturous crowd in a massive Soweto soccer stadium. His approach was a key to convincing the country's president, F.W. deKlerk, that apartheid had to end and that black majority rule was inevitable. That, in turn, spared South Africa a racial war and the twisted mutation of "majority rule" in Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe.
There is also no way to avoid the limits of Mandela?s legacy.
It could not prevent the installation of successor presidents who inflicted real damage on their country. Tabo Mbeki?s refusal to understand the link between the HIV virus and AIDS is one reason why South Africa has the world?s largest HIV/AIDS population. The current president, Jacob Zuma, has remained in office despite highly credible charges of rape and corruption.It wouldn?t be fair to expect one larger-than-life leader to prevent the kind of failures that afflict governments all around the world. Nor should we expect South Africa to be free from the kind of political infighting common to free governments. (Patrick Lekota, Minister of Defense under President Mbkei, now leads an opposition party).
But far more serious afflictions bedevil South Africa. Decades of white supremacist rule have left the black majority in an economic state that political emancipation cannot uproot. Today, the country's official jobless rate is 25 percent ? a level seen in the U.S. at the depths of the Great Depression. Crime is a serious enough issue there that the State Department issued a travel warning last month labeling Johannesburg, Cape Town, Diplomatic and Pretoria ?critical crime threat spots.?
Our own nation serves as a lesson here. In the early 20th century, blacks in the South, a region with state-sanctioned peonage and terror, began fleeing in massive numbers -- a migration described brilliantly by Isabel Wilkerson in her book ?The Warmth of Other Suns.? In 1910, 90 percent of all blacks lived in theSouth; by 1960, barely half did. The impact of that migration still is felt today, a hundred years after it began. It would be naive to think that the effects of the system imposed by white South Africans on the black majority decades ago would not endure long after apartheid came to an end.
Nelson Mandela?s commitment to a peaceful path to justice did not, and could not,deliver his nation from the consequences of its past. But what he did, and what his nation was spared, is more than enough to celebrate.
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Newest Art Buy Recalls City's Agrarian Past - Arts & Entertainment ...
One of the few remaining families who farm Middletown land is now a permanently visual part of local history with the city's acquisition of painter Paul Baldassini's work.
The subject of this large piece is the Hubbard-Wyskiel Farm on Long Hill Road in Middletown. It features Stanley Wyskiel and his son Walt as they load bales behind their tractor.
A framed oil painting, "Taking a Break," was purchase by the arts commission for its large Public Art Collection for $600, a discount graciously offered by the artist, who is a professional painter and photo restorer.
The subject of this large piece is the Hubbard-Wyskiel Farm on Long Hill Road in Middletown. It features Stanley Wyskiel and his son Walt as they load bales behind their tractor.
Stanley is still a full time farmer in his mid-seventies.
The painting is oil on panel. The artist used all the old master technique of applying a layer of varnish between layers of oil paint and of slowly working up the surface of the painting.
The painting will soon be visible for public viewing at city hall on deKoven Drive, where the art commission's full collection is open weekdays.
Another recent acquisition, a lithograph by Art Blanchard of a rooster, donated to the Public Art Collection by Biff and Jean Shaw, is also on view. The drawing was done in South Yarmouth, Mass., in 1951.
The Blanchard lithograph, a printing process, traditionally uses a stone instead of a metal plate. According to Arts Commissioner Joyce Kirkpatrick, the artist drew the design on the stone when he made it,?treated it chemically, and then the stone was inked and the paper was pressed onto the stone to make the print.
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Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Fire Takes 88 College Student Apartments in Washington
Just Completed Construction
A SUSPICIOUS FIRE SWEPT through four apartment buildings in Pullman, Washington, Sunday morning.? The buildings were part of a complex of Washington State University student housing apartments and were still under construction.? They would have been ready for occupancy next month when the fall semester begins.
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There were 88 units destroyed and several other buildings, including several already occupied, were endangered exposures, but the lack of wind probably helped contain the fire to the original complex.? The loss is estimated to be $13 million.
KXLY-TV provided this video report:
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The Pullman Fire Department issued a press release that says in part,
Firefighters managed to protect another four units under construction from any major fire damage. Two nearby apartment complexes, that were occupied ? Boulder Creek and Steptoe ? sustained heat damage to the vinyl siding but all the units could be used.
The first call to Whitcom, the 9-1-1 center, came in by phone at 3:16 a.m. As fire units left the north area station, they could see the flames and immediately called for a second alarm and third alarms for additional help. Pullman firefighters were aided by Whitman Rural District 12, Moscow Rural and City fire departments and the Colfax fire department.
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As firefighters first approached the fire scene, just off Terre View Drive, set up equipment in defensive mode to protect occupied apartment buildings to the east and south of the structure. They also managed to save four additional apartment buildings under construction in The Grove from any major fire damage.
Firefighters had the fire under control about two hours later (5:20 am) but will have firefighters on the scene for several hours mopping up and aiding with the fire investigation.
Pullman Fire Chief Mike Heston said firefighters were told at least two fire hydrants on the property supposedly were operational but when firefighters tried to use them, there was no water available. Firefighters laid hose line from hydrants on Terre View and nearby complexes to help extinguish the fire.
The first firefighters on the scene said the fire apparently started in the middle complex and spread to three other units that were in various stages of construction.
All of the destroyed units had already been rented for the fall semester.
A task force of local police and fire marshal investigators is working on the case.
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London Markets: FTSE 100 wobbles as banks drop, miners rise
By Sara Sjolin, MarketWatch
LONDON (MarketWatch) ? U.K.?s FTSE 100 index was little changed on Tuesday, as banks declined after recent gains, while mining firms were mostly stronger after an upbeat production update from Rio Tinto PLC.
The benchmark /quotes/zigman/3173262 UK:UKX -0.03% ?was marginally higher at 6,586.01, after closing at the highest level since late May on Monday.
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Shares of Rio Tinto /quotes/zigman/155899 UK:RIO +3.22% ? /quotes/zigman/182541/quotes/nls/rio RIO +0.28% ? /quotes/zigman/176317 AU:RIO +1.37% ?climbed 2.2% after the heavyweight miner posted record output of iron ore in the second quarter and said its recovery from a landslide at a major copper mine in the U.S. is faster than expected.
Other miners tracked Rio Tinto higher, with BHP Billiton PLC /quotes/zigman/184879 UK:BLT +1.91% ? /quotes/zigman/270355/quotes/nls/bhp BHP +0.33% ? /quotes/zigman/180893 AU:BHP +0.54% ?up 0.9%, Antofagasta PLC /quotes/zigman/139152 UK:ANTO +0.55% ?0.6% higher and Anglo American PLC /quotes/zigman/470624 UK:AAL +1.42% ?rising 0.6%.
The gains for the mining sector weren?t, however, enough to push the broader U.K. index firmly into positive territory. Banks declined after recent gains and added pressure on the broader index. Standard Chartered PLC /quotes/zigman/22532 UK:STAN -2.68% ?lost 1.5%, Lloyds Banking Group PLC /quotes/zigman/126322 UK:LLOY -0.27% ? /quotes/zigman/255656/quotes/nls/lyg LYG +2.93% ?fell 0.7% and HSBC Holdings PLC /quotes/zigman/13843 UK:HSBA -0.15% ? /quotes/zigman/207333/quotes/nls/hbc HBC +0.71% ? /quotes/zigman/13834 HK:5 -0.06% ?shed 0.5%.
Banks drop in London on Tuesday.On the data front in the U.K., the Office for National Statistics said inflation rose to 2.9% in June from 2.7% in May, but below estimates of a 3% reading.
?There are growing signs of the U.K. recovery gaining momentum, with the economy set for strong growth in the second quarter and companies reporting the brightest outlook for the year ahead since the financial crisis struck, but inflation clearly remains the UK?s bugbear and calls into question just how long this strong growth can persist for,? said Chris Williamson, chief economist at Markit, in a note.
?High prices look set to continue to erode spending power, curbing the overall pace of economic growth,? he added.
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/quotes/zigman/155899 UK : U.K.: London
Volume: 2.24M
July 16, 2013 12:23p
Market Cap?39.53 billion
Rev. per Employee?451,624
/quotes/zigman/182541/quotes/nls/rio US : U.S.: NYSE
Volume: 2.14M
July 15, 2013 4:05p
Rev. per Employee$716,974
/quotes/zigman/176317 AU : Australia: Sydney
Volume: 1.78M
July 16, 2013 5:04p
Rev. per Employee$691,334
/quotes/zigman/184879 UK : U.K.: London
Volume: 3.46M
July 16, 2013 12:23p
Market Cap?38.02 billion
Rev. per Employee?911,375
/quotes/zigman/270355/quotes/nls/bhp US : U.S.: NYSE
Volume: 1.02M
July 15, 2013 4:00p
/quotes/zigman/180893 AU : Australia: Sydney
Volume: 4.17M
July 16, 2013 5:04p
Market Cap$106.98 billion
/quotes/zigman/139152 UK : U.K.: London
Volume: 732,553
July 16, 2013 12:22p
Rev. per Employee?754,574
/quotes/zigman/470624 UK : U.K.: London
Volume: 1.79M
July 16, 2013 12:22p
Market Cap?18.04 billion
Rev. per Employee?171,231
/quotes/zigman/22532 UK : U.K.: London
Volume: 3.09M
July 16, 2013 12:23p
Market Cap?37.07 billion
Rev. per Employee?187,578
/quotes/zigman/126322 UK : U.K.: London
Volume: 67.72M
July 16, 2013 12:23p
Market Cap?48.37 billion
Rev. per Employee?482,111
/quotes/zigman/255656/quotes/nls/lyg US : U.S.: NYSE
Volume: 2.89M
July 15, 2013 4:07p
Rev. per Employee$767,916
/quotes/zigman/13843 UK : U.K.: London
Volume: 8.88M
July 16, 2013 12:23p
Market Cap?134.80 billion
Rev. per Employee?204,167
/quotes/zigman/207333/quotes/nls/hbc US : U.S.: NYSE
Volume: 516,602
July 15, 2013 4:05p
Market Cap$203.78 billion
Rev. per Employee$320,506
/quotes/zigman/13834 HK : Hong Kong
Volume: 8.29M
July 16, 2013 4:01p
Market CapHK$1580.99 billion
Rev. per EmployeeHK$2.50M
Sara Sjolin is a MarketWatch reporter based in London. Follow her on Twitter @sarasjolin.
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NY rabbi accused of trying to pull over motorists
The synagogue of Congregation Sulam Yaakov in Larchmont, N.Y., is depicted on Friday, July 12, 2013. The congregation's rabbi, Alfredo Borodowski, is charged with impersonating a police officer by flashing a badge and ordering a fellow motorist to pull over. (AP Photo/Jim Fitzgerald)
The synagogue of Congregation Sulam Yaakov in Larchmont, N.Y., is depicted on Friday, July 12, 2013. The congregation's rabbi, Alfredo Borodowski, is charged with impersonating a police officer by flashing a badge and ordering a fellow motorist to pull over. (AP Photo/Jim Fitzgerald)
The synagogue of Congregation Sulam Yaakov in Larchmont, N.Y., is depicted on Friday, July 12, 2013. The congregation's rabbi, Alfredo Borodowski, is charged with impersonating a police officer by flashing a badge and ordering a fellow motorist to pull over. The New York rabbi, arrested for flashing a badge and ordering a woman driver to pull over, says he was angered by her slow driving. (AP Photo/Jim Fitzgerald)
The synagogue of Congregation Sulam Yaakov in Larchmont, N.Y., is depicted on Friday, July 12, 2013. The congregation's rabbi, Alfredo Borodowski, is charged with impersonating a police officer by flashing a badge and ordering a fellow motorist to pull over. The New York rabbi, arrested for flashing a badge and ordering a woman driver to pull over, says he was angered by her slow driving. (AP Photo/Jim Fitzgerald)
MAMARONECK, N.Y. (AP) ? Some drivers in the suburbs north of New York City were startled when they saw a man waving his arms, honking his horn and flashing a silver badge in a frantic effort to get them to pull over in traffic.
Even more surprising was who was suspected of doing it: a respected rabbi.
Rabbi Alfredo Borodowski has been arrested in one case and is being investigated in at least two more in which authorities say the apparent reason for trying to pull people over was to rage at them for cutting him off or driving too slowly.
"That girl was driving too slow and I hate when people do this," the 49-year-old Borodowski told investigators after he was charged with impersonating a police officer in June, when he allegedly pulled his Camry alongside a woman's car in Mamaroneck, flashed a badge and shouted: "Police! Police! Pull over!"
The woman, whose name has not been made public, did not pull over. According to her lawyer, Richard Clifford, the rabbi "just laid on the horn and started screaming at her" as she obeyed a 20-mph limit in a school zone. "She was so freaked out with the horn honking and the screaming that she called police immediately. ... I believe my client was in danger with this guy and if she had gotten out of her car it could have escalated."
Borodowski denied to police he was trying to impersonate an officer, saying he was telling the woman only that he would be "calling the police."
Police confiscated the badge, which read: "Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority Officer 1338." Judie Glave, a spokeswoman for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which oversees the bridge and tunnel authority, said the badge is "totally fake."
Borodowski's lawyer, Andrew Rubin, acknowledged that the rabbi's behavior has been "manic" and said he's suffering from bipolar disorder. The lawyer said the rabbi will plead not guilty in court this week. A previous hearing was postponed because the rabbi was hospitalized.
The rabbi has been fired from a position at prestigious Temple Emanu-El in Manhattan, one of the world's largest Jewish houses of worship. He also leads a congregation in Larchmont.
The odd saga of the rabbi has grabbed headlines in the car-centric suburbs and gained momentum after his arrest, when other drivers came forward saying he had tried to pull them over, too.
When Peter Moses' wife saw the story on the TV news, "She shouted, 'Oh my God, the guy who stopped us did it to someone else ? and he's a rabbi!'" said Moses, a public relations consultant in White Plains.
Moses said that in May, a motorist tailgated him on a drive from Scarsdale to White Plains, "obviously trying to make me go faster" than the 40- mph limit. Instead, Moses slowed, and the driver passed him and then blocked his path.
"He's shouting, 'I'm a police officer, pull over!' and he's got this little badge that he's waving at us. I told my wife, 'That's not a police officer,'" Moses said.
"Then he's out of his car and he's screaming: 'I can arrest you! I can have you arrested!' I said, 'Fine, call the police,' then he storms back to his car and drives off."
Moses said his wife asked him not to report the incident but changed her mind when they learned of the arrest in Mamaroneck. "What we want is for the rabbi to get the emotional help he so obviously needs," he said.
Yet another driver handed State Police a video of a confrontation in late April on Interstate 87 near Yonkers. The man told authorities that he swerved in front of a driver who then flashed a badge and demanded that he pull over.
Police are not releasing the video, but a still image from it obtained by The Journal News shows a man who looks like Borodowski sticking his head out of his car window, his wispy graying hair blowing in the wind, who appears to be shouting and waving a silver badge in a leather case.
"He was holding up this tiny badge, and I knew the guy could no way be a cop in any sense of the word," the driver, whose name has not been made public, told the newspaper. When he challenged the man, he drove off.
The three complaints prompted the trustees of Temple Emanu-El to dismiss Borodowski as executive director of the Skirball Center for Jewish Learning "in the best interests of the congregation," said Mark Weisstuch, administrative vice president.
Borodowski was still listed as rabbi on the website for Congregation Sulam Yaakov in Larchmont. A call to the synagogue there was answered by a man who said: "No comment. That's his personal life."
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Monday, July 15, 2013
How Gross Is the Water That Drips From Air Conditioners?
Ever wonder about the water that drips down from air conditioners as an unwelcome sidewalk surprise when you?re walking to work? In 2011, Forrest Wickman looked into the reason whybACs are so leaky, and if there?s anything unsanitary about the water that?s dripping down on you. The original article is reprinted below.
Air conditioner water: Is it good enough to drink?
Walk down any city sidewalk on a hot summer day, and you're bound to get wet?and not just when it's raining. Water drips from window AC units, especially on muggy days, and this unpleasant drizzle can fall into your hair or even onto the lip of your morning coffee cup. Is all that dripping water sanitary?
Yes, as a general rule. Most of the dripping from air conditioners is just condensed water vapor that comes from the air inside the building. Window air conditioners are designed to drain this water from the back, raining it down on any unsuspecting pedestrians below. In most ways this water is exactly like rain (which also forms from condensed water vapor) or the moisture that collects on a cool can of soda, and it's typically no more harmful. However, in rare cases small amounts of water can be left to stagnate inside the air conditioner, making it a breeding ground for bacteria.
On a hot and humid day, a window unit can drip up to 2 gallons of water, which accumulates on its evaporator coil as it cools and dehumidifies the air. (Very little condensation gathers on the exterior side of an AC, which tends to be warmer than the air around it.) This coil, like many plumbing pipes used for drinking water, is made of copper (which is also what makes air conditioners so heavy), and it's much cleaner than you might expect from looking at a dusty AC filter. While copper can be unhealthy in high doses, the condensate from air conditioners seems to be low in minerals and dissolved solids.
In a properly functioning air conditioner, the water drips down from the coil into a condensate pan and then exits the unit through a drain or tube. However, a clog in this drain or tube can leave a puddle to accumulate inside, which is an ideal environment for many types of harmful bacteria. In particular, a 1976 outbreak of Legionnaires' disease was caused by bacteria that spread out of the air conditioning system at Philadelphia's Bellevue-Stratford Hotel. (That's how the disease got its name: Many of the victims were attending an American Legion convention.) While Legionella is known to thrive in the cooling towers of large air conditioning systems like the one at that Philadelphia hotel, it does not seem to grow in smaller units. Furthermore, dripping water isn't really stagnant, so it's extremely unlikely that the water raining down on pedestrians would be infected.
The water that drips from air conditioners is probably even safe for drinking. (It's certainly more potable than the drinking water in many countries.) Still, for the reasons mentioned above, it's best not to tilt your head back for a draft. If you're looking for a better use for your air conditioner's condensate, the Explainer recommends using it to water your plants.
Got a question about today's news? Ask the Explainer.
Explainer thanks Douglas T. Reindl of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Mark Sobsey of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Genetic secrets of microbes revealed
15 July 2013
Last updated at 05:09 ET
The genetic secrets of some of the most abundant and diverse forms of life on Earth have been uncovered by scientists.
Researchers have sequenced the genomes of 201 microbes to find out more about the role these tiny, single-celled organisms play in our environment.
This insight into the genetic code has also helped the team to draw up a more detailed version of the microbial family tree.
The work is published in Nature.
Phil Hugenholtz, director of the Australian Centre for Ecogenomics at the University of Queensland, in Australia, said: "For almost 20 years now we have been astonished by how little there is known about massive regions of the tree of life. This project is the first systematic effort to address this enormous knowledge gap.
"For me, taxonomic assignment is important as it welcomes in strangers and makes them part of the family. Yet this is just a start. We are talking about probably millions of microbial species that remain to be described."
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Microbes are found almost everywhere. They can thrive in the most hostile places on Earth, and are found in the polar ice, the deepest depths of the ocean and the driest parts of the deserts.
Scientists estimate that there are many millions of species.
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But, unfortunately for scientists, the one places where these tiny organisms fail to do well is the laboratory. The vast majority of microbes are difficult to grow, which makes studying them difficult.
Now, though, scientists have taken advantage of new genetic technology that allows a genome to be sequenced from a single cell.
Using this, an international team has been able to reveal the genetic code of 201 different microbes, without the need to cultivate them in the lab.
These include species that live deep underground in a mine in South Dakota, in the Great Boiling Spring of Nevada as well as in the middle of the ocean.
Their DNA has shown that some of the organisms are so different from any seen before that 29 new branches need to be drawn on the microbial tree of life.
The genomes will also help scientists to study the biological features that allow microbes to survive in places where all other life fails.
Tanja Woyke, from the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, said: "What we are now discovering are unexpected metabolic features that extend our understanding of biology and challenge established boundaries between the domains of life."
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23286933#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
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Sony drops appeal for ICO-issued 2011 data loss fine
Sony dropped its appeal and will therefore have to pay a ?250,000 fine issued by the UK Information Commissioner's Office related to a massive data breach on PSN in April 2011. ICO issued the fine in January 2013, calling the hack a "serious breach of the Data Protection Act."
"After careful consideration we are withdrawing our appeal. This decision reflects our commitment to protect the confidentiality of our network security from disclosures in the course of the proceeding," a Sony representative told V3. "We continue to disagree with the decision on the merits."
Source: http://www.joystiq.com/2013/07/13/sony-drops-appeal-for-ico-issued-2011-data-loss-fine/
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Castle, Clark-Willow Lake split amateur baseball doubleheader
Clark-Willow Lake and Castlewood split an amateur baseball doubleheader on Thursday.
?The home team won the first game 10-0, but Castlewood rallied for a 12-4 win in the nightcap.
?Clark-Willow Lake pitcher, Jeff McGraw gave up just three singles and no runs in the first game. Levi Sauder, Rhett Florey and Andrew Wegner had two hits each for the winning team.
?Castlewood exploded for five runs in the second inning of the second game and tacked on five more runs in the fourth. The visiting team collected five extra base hits. Castlewood?s record is 5-11.
?Clark-Willow Lake has a 14-12 record and hosts Groton today at 5:30 p.m.
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Capitol Report: Shaping Minnesota's Energy Future
Visions for Minnesota's energy future vary widely, while the state becomes a leader in incorporating wind, solar energy into the power source grid. On this week's Capitol Report program, Julie Bartkey delves into the ongoing energy conversation with key Senate policymakers.
Senate Environment and Energy Chair John Marty, DFL-Roseville, describes his vision for a "clean energy environment," one fueled by a greater share of renewable energy sources. In contrast, Senator David Brown, R-Becker, stresses the economic value of coal and nuclear energy.
Also on this week's program, Rep. Ryan Winkler, chair of the Select Committee on Living Wage Jobs, previews the work of his committee in striving to foster a strong economy and good wages. Plus, Sen. Julie Rosen, R-Fairmont, offers her perspective on the detriment of mandatory minimum wage requirements on small businesses.
Finally, the Capitol Preservation Committee reviews the forthcoming work at the Capitol, and Governor Dayton shares his opinion on the impact it will have on Capitol tenants and visitors.
Capitol Report is produced by Minnesota Senate Media Services, a non-partisan, taxpayer-funded organization.
Mobile users, click here to watch this video.
Source: http://northshore.wdio.com/news/politics/66522-capitol-report-shaping-minnesotas-energy-future
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Want Free Ice Cream today? - - Portland Food and Drink
[unable to retrieve full-text content]This is National Ice Cream Month, and to celebrate, the Dairy Farmers of Oregon Ice Cream Churn-a-ment will pit six local chefs against each other to see w.
Source: http://portlandfoodanddrink.com/want-free-ice-cream-today/
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By blocking immigration reform, House Republicans guarantee GOP decline | Michael Cohen
Over the past several years, as the Republican party has slid deeper into ideological dogmatism, naked legislative obstructionism, mindless partisanship and increasingly heartless social policy, it has largely spoken with one voice. Whether you're the Senate majority leader, the governor of Texas or a state senator in Florida, the message and the madness have been remarkably similar.
But immigration reform has proven to an exception to this general rule.
Throughout the 2012 presidential campaign, Republican candidates practically tried to outdo themselves in hurling invective at the nation's 11 million undocumented immigrants ? and the very idea of treating them with dignity. But after the 2012 election, a prominent party elite began singing a very different tune. Unable to accept the reality that the electorate rejected their conservative vision for America in re-electing Barack Obama, many Republicans have convinced themselves that their problem in 2012 was one of demographics ? namely, the overwhelming loss of the Hispanic vote.
They came up with an easy fix: immigration reform.
By passing reform and showing that Republicans don't really hate undocumented immigrants and that they were just joking about that whole "self-deporting" thing, the GOP could win back some support from Hispanic voters. Or so the story went.
It was an argument that quickly took hold among Republican elites, business supporters of the GOP who rely on cheap immigrant labor and presidential contenders like Marco Rubio. For members of Congress with large Hispanic populations, the benefits of passing reform were obvious. As a result, last month, in a rare moment of bipartisan compromise, 13 Senate Republicans even voted in support of a measure that included a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.
Immigration reform, it seemed, stood a fighting chance of becoming law.
But then it ran headfirst into the place where good ideas, common sense and political outreach go to die ? and parochialism reigns supreme: the Republican-controlled House of Representatives.
Since passing the Senate with a filibuster-proof majority, immigration reform has gone from being a patient with an uncertain prognosis to one that's about to get transferred to hospice care. And the reason is rather simple ? House Republicans are much more interested in keeping their base of conservative white voters happy than they are in improving their standing among Hispanic voters.
For decades, the Republican party has been a party dominated by white voters. Although there were occasional moments of making inroads into the Hispanic and even black community, since 1968 Republicans have relied on an overwhelming share of the white vote as their political base. It was an often effective political strategy ? in large measure, because the white share of the electorate was so large ? and also because Republicans had long come to understand how they could effectively mine economic apprehension and resentment toward minorities, young people and, indeed, the whole process of cultural change to win national elections.
But with the country getting browner, and with college-educated whites and women embracing a more tolerant and secular Democratic party, the electoral options for Republicans have narrowed dramatically. Indeed, the 2012 election was, in key regards, a last gasp for Republicans as Mitt Romney took a page from the old Wallace/Nixon/Reagan/Bush playbook of trafficking in white anxiety ? and failed miserably.
But that failure is one that predominately afflicts the presidential wing of the party and the dwindling number of Republicans in blue and purple states. For the congressional wing of the party, white voters are still their bread and butter. After all, most of them did just fine in the 2012 election.
If you're a House Republican in a solidly red district with few minority voters, not only do you not care about appealing to minority voters, but you're also deathly afraid of upsetting your white constituents ? particularly, if those white constituents are none too fond of "illegal immigrants". Although one might understand the logic of having the national party appeal to Hispanic voters to win presidential elections, the perception that you are turning your back on white voters is a recipe for political disaster. And so, for rank-and-file GOP congressmen, the smart strategy has always been to block immigration reform.
Now, on the surface, this may seem like a selfish move and one that is focused on short-term political considerations rather than the long-term future of the party. Beyond the devastating hit to the hope of minimizing the party's disadvantage with Hispanic voters, blocking immigration reform will almost certainly do further harm to the GOP brand among other minority groups (African Americans, Asian Americans, Arab Americans), as well as socially tolerant whites.
The problem is that House Republicans have a powerful counter-argument: all of this might be true, but passing immigration reform won't do all that much to help.
They are probably right. Millions of Latino voters are not going to suddenly provide their appreciation ? and votes ? to Republicans for passing a bill championed by a Democratic president. Moreover, a bill that offers a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants ? which is a key Democratic requirement ? will create millions of potential new voters, many of whom will likely be casting a ballot for the party that shepherded immigration reform over the legislative finish line, rather than the one that was dragged there kicking and screaming.
Meanwhile, resentful white voters might be a shrinking part of the population, but there still are quite a few of them, particularly in red states. So long as they are willing to vote Republican ? and keep the House in GOP hands ? why risk upsetting them?
In a rare joint editorial in the Weekly Standard, Rich Lowry (editor of National Review) and Bill Kristol (editor of the Standard) made the point quite clearly:
The Republicans eager to back the bill are doing so out of political panic, 'I think Republicans realize the implications for the future of the Republican party in America if we don't get this issue behind us,' John McCain says. This is silly. Are we supposed to believe that Republican Senate candidates running in states such as Arkansas, North Carolina, Iowa, Virginia and Montana will be hurt if the party doesn't embrace Chuck Schumer's immigration bill?
Of course, there is a third option ? which is having the House vote on the Senate bill and allowing those Republican members who accrue some political benefit from voting for an immigration reform measure to join with Democrats in passing the bill. But that would mean Speaker of the House John Boehner would have to agree to suspend the informal Hastert rule, which says that any legislation passing the House must have a majority of Republicans. For Boehner to take that step would further isolate him from his caucus; not surprisingly, it's a political step he doesn't want to take.
The irony is that the group of Republican politicians being most politically selfish is the group pushing reform. For someone like Rubio, who wants to run for president in three years and hopes to do so with a political base larger than the one Mitt Romney lost with, passing reform is far more about assisting his political future than it is about helping the GOP ? because, in the short term, immigration reform will do far more than harm than good to his party. Indeed, one could look at Rubio's own fortunes to see why. As Micah Cohen pointed out at fivethirtyeight.com a few days ago, his standing has slipped among Republicans ? and immigration appears to be one of the key contributing factors.
In reality, Republicans face two terrible choices on immigration: support reform that annoys your base and creates millions of new Democratic voters, or block reform and further identify yourselves as a whites-only party. In this case of deciding between a bad option and a terrible option, either way you choose, you lose. From that perspective, it's hardly surprising that House Republicans ? when faced with such an unpalatable pair of possibilities ? are choosing the path of least resistance ? for them.
The irony of this situation for Republicans is that six years ago, when George W Bush was president, they had a chance to pass a comprehensive immigration reform measure, but conservative Republicans in the Senate blocked the bill (with a hand from Democrats). Had Bush signed that legislation, Republicans would have given themselves a fighting chance with Hispanic voters. Instead, they squandered the opportunity and very possibly have lost any chance of Latino support for a generation.
Whether they like it or not, Republicans have become a semi-permanently party of older, white people. Although that might help Republicans maintain control of the House for the foreseeable future, it is a path to long-term political decline for the GOP.
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/12/sabotaging-immigration-reform-house-republicans
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