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Should grandma join Facebook? It may give her a cognitive boost, study finds
Feb. 21, 2013 ? For older adults looking to sharpen their mental abilities, it might be time to log on to Facebook.
Preliminary research findings from the University of Arizona suggest that men and women older than 65 who learn to use Facebook could see a boost in cognitive function.
Janelle Wohltmann, a graduate student in the UA department of psychology, set out to see whether teaching older adults to use the popular social networking site could help improve their cognitive performance and make them feel more socially connected.
Her preliminary findings, which she shared this month at the International Neuropsychological Society Annual Meeting in Hawaii, show that older adults, after learning to use Facebook, performed about 25 percent better on tasks designed to measure their ability to continuously monitor and to quickly add or delete the contents of their working memory -- a function known in the psychology world as "updating."
Wohltmann, whose research is ongoing as part of her dissertation work, facilitated Facebook training for 14 older adults who had either never used the site or used it less than once a month. They were instructed to become Facebook friends only with those in their training group and were asked to post on the site at least once a day.
A second group of 14 non-Facebook using seniors instead was taught to use an online diary site, Penzu.com, in which entries are kept private, with no social sharing component. They were asked to make at least one entry a day, of no more than three to five sentences to emulate the shortness of messages that Facebook users typically post.
The study's third group of 14 was told they were on a "wait-list" for Facebook training, which they never actually completed.
Prior to learning any new technologies, study participants, who ranged in age from 68 to 91, completed a series of questionnaires and neuropsychological tests measuring social variables, such as their levels loneliness and social support, as well as their cognitive abilities. The assessments were done again at the end of the study, eight weeks later.
In the follow-ups, those who had learned to use Facebook performed about 25 percent better than they did at the start of the study on tasks designed to measure their mental updating abilities. Participants in the other groups saw no significant change in performance.
Wohltmann conducted the study with help from her research adviser Betty Glisky, professor and head of the department of psychology, and a team of undergraduate and graduate research assistants. It was based on existing evidence about how learning new tasks can help older adults with overall cognitive function, as well as research suggesting a possible link between social connectedness and cognitive performance.
"The idea evolved from two bodies of research," she said. "One, there is evidence to suggest that staying more cognitively engaged -- learning new skills, not just becoming a couch potato when you retire but staying active -- leads to better cognitive performing. It's kind of this 'use it or lose it' hypothesis."
"There's also a large body of literature showing that people who are more socially engaged, are less lonely, have more social support and are more socially integrated are also doing better cognitively in older age," she said.
In Wohltmann's research, further analysis is needed to determine whether using Facebook made participants feel less lonely or more socially connected, she said.
Likewise, further analysis is needed to determine whether, or by how much, Facebook's social aspect contributed to improvements in cognitive performance. However, Wohltmann suspects that the complex nature of the Facebook interface, compared to the online diary site, was largely responsible for Facebook users' improved performance.
"The Facebook interface is actually quite complex. The big difference between the online diary and Facebook is that when you create a diary entry, you create the entry, you save it and that's all you see, versus if you're on Facebook, several people are posting new things, so new information is constantly getting posted," she said.
"You're seeing this new information coming in, and you need to focus on the new information and get rid of the old information, or keep it in mind if you want to go back and reference it later, so you have to constantly update what's there in your attention," she said.
Participants in the study, who had an average age of 79, represent a demographic whose social media behavior has not been closely examined.
"Facebook is obviously a huge phenomenon in our culture," Wohltmann said. "There's starting to be more research coming out about how younger adults use Facebook and online social networking, but we really don't know very much at all about older adults, and they actually are quite a large growing demographic on Facebook, so I think it's really important to do the research to find out."
One in three online seniors use a social networking site like Facebook, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project.
Wohltmann says she also sees Facebook as a potential alternative to some online games marketed to seniors to help boost mental acuity.
"Those games can boring after a while, and this might be a new activity for people to learn that's more interesting and keeps them socially engaged," she said, adding that it can also help older adults stay connected with grandchildren and other family and friends.
Yet, Wohltmann cautions it may not be for everyone.
"One of the take-home messages could be that learning how to use Facebook is a way to build what we call cognitive reserve, to help protect against and stave off cognitive decline due to normal age-related changes in brain function. But there certainly are other ways to do this as well," she said.
"It's also important to understand and know about some of the aspects of Facebook that people have concerns about, like how to keep your profile secure," she said. "So I wouldn't suggest to anyone to get out and get Granny online right away, unless you or somebody else can provide the proper education and support to that person, so that they can use it in a safe way."
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Washington Transportation Secretary Hammond to retire
Washington's Transportation Secretary Paula Hammond announced on Tuesday, Feb. 19, that she would be retiring in March.
Lynn Peterson, transportation adviser to Oregon Gov. Kitzhaber, will replace Hammond as the new secretary of transportation, Gov. Inslee's office announced on Tuesday.
In a letter to staff, Hammond said she would be retiring on March 8 after 34 years with the department.
"From my first assignment as an asphalt plant inspector, to my final position as your secretary of transportation, I have been proud to be a part of the WSDOT family that is rich with committed individuals who can be counted on in any emergency, and who always put the public's safety first," wrote Hammond in a letter to staff.
Peterson was named the Oregon governor's sustainable communities and transportation policy adviser in 2011. She was previously the chairwoman of the Clackamas Board of County Commissioners.
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AngloGold Ashanti earnings plunge as strikes bite
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - AngloGold Ashanti, the world's third-largest bullion producer, posted a plunge in quarterly earnings, hit by wildcat strikes at its South African mines and troubles at one of its largest African operations.
The South Africa-based miner said on Wednesday fourth-quarter adjusted headline earnings were 2 U.S. cents compared with 61 U.S. cents in the previous quarter.
Production dropped to 859,000 ounces in the quarter after 250,000 ounces, or $208 million in earnings, were wiped out by work stoppages that included illegal strikes and underground sit-ins at its South African operations.
Full-year production was 3.9 million ounces, well off the company's target of between 4.3 and 4.4 million ounces.
"We took a hit in South Africa," said chief executive Mark Cutifani, who leaves to lead Anglo American in April, adding that the company stalled the re-opening of its South African operations this year.
"We were unhappy with the way one or two operations came back to work and we sent people back home. We then spent about ten days with the guys working, reinforcing the need to treat each other with dignity and respect."
Obuasi, its largest mine in Ghana, also continued to underperform. A decision in October to change the mine development contractor cost the company $44 million. Already part of AngloGold for more than a decade, Cutifani said Obuasi was taking too long to deliver.
SECTOR BLEEDING
South African gold and platinum producers have been scarred by violent labour clashes that late last year halted operations and slashed production.
More than 50 people were killed in labour strife last year, including 34 shot dead by police at Lonmin's Marikana mine in August - the deadliest single security incident in South Africa since apartheid ended in 1994.
"It is not just one company that is facing the challenges, many of the companies are in the same boat," Roger Baxter, a senior executive at the Chamber of Mines told a South African parliamentary committee on Wednesday.
AngloGold's closest rival Gold Fields reported a 20 percent fall in headline earnings last week, largely due to the impact of an illegal strike at two South African mines it has since spun off.
Harmony Gold, however, which produces 95 percent of its gold in South Africa, reported a 28 percent hike in headline earnings for the three months to end-December.
AngloGold is already in the middle of a corporate and cost review with some assets, like Namibia's only gold mine Navachab, considered for sale. It has also pushed back some projects.
"Capital numbers have been kept tight, we continue to trim where we do not see real short-term uplift," said Cutifani.
Gold equities have historically traded at a discount to the metal but South African mining shares have felt additional pain thanks to the sector's tarnished image.
"The thing that concerns me most is getting performance back into the share price," Cutifani said.
AngloGold's shares dropped 3.90 percent to trade at 231.51 rand, in line with the JSE's gold index, which was 3.45 percent lower by 1236 GMT.
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MUNICIPAL WASTE Take Part In The Vans Parade
Speed metal punks MUNICIPAL WASTE have teamed up with Vans and the city of Los Angeles for a parade that?d make you ditch school, work, and yeah, even that follow-up appointment with your orthopedic surgeon. Check out the clip on Offthewall.tv below:
Municipal Waste drummer Dave Witte shares why this opportunity was a win-win situation:
?I am thrilled to be a part of The Vans Parade as it not only features some of the most talented skaters and BMX people going - which I have the utmost respect for, growing up a BMX rider pre-drumming ? but I've also worn slip-on Vans while drumming for about 20 years. For me, they are the ultimate drumming shoe. Viva Vans!?
Kurt Soto, who handles Music and Entertainment Relations for Vans, adds:
?We?ve been fans of Municipal Waste for several years now and their energetic style of thrash metal laid down the perfect soundtrack to the mayhem unleashed when Vans staged an ?Off The Wall? parade with several hundred of our closest friends.?
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Feds, BP agree oil captured not part of penalties
NEW ORLEANS (AP) ? BP and the federal government have agreed that 34 million gallons of oil captured during the massive 2010 spill in the Gulf of Mexico can't count toward civil penalties the oil giant faces.
The agreement is contained in a court filing Tuesday. It came in response to BP's argument that workers either burned the collected oil or shipped it to shore before it could enter the Gulf waters and that it shouldn't count in calculating the company's Clean Water Act penalties. The penalties will be in the billions of dollars.
The first phase of a trial is scheduled to start Feb. 25. It is designed to determine the causes of BP's well blowout and assign percentages of fault to the companies involved in the drilling project that went wrong.
The second phase will address efforts to stop the flow of oil from the well.
U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier noted Tuesday that neither party shall dispute the number of gallons collected "during Phase Two or later phases of this civil action."
A criminal settlement with the Justice Department in November didn't resolve the government's civil claims against BP.
A team of scientists working for the government estimated that more than 200 million gallons of oil spewed from BP's blown-out Macondo well from April to July 2010. That estimate included oil that was collected.
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Costa Rica toughens stance in US-backed drug fight
In this Jan. 25, 2013 photo, a detection officer with U.S. Customs and Border Protection takes photos of a potential drug-carrying boat from inside a P3 Orion Airborne Early Warning Aircraft while flying over waters near the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. The Central American country abolished its army in 1948 and plowed money into education, social benefits and environmental preservation. As a result, Costa Rican officials say, the country can?t battle ruthless and well-equipped Mexican drug cartels without U.S. help. The U.S. is patrolling Costa Rica?s skies and waters and providing millions of dollars in training and equipment to Costa Rican officials who have launched a tough line on crime backed by top-to-bottom transformation of the law-enforcement and justice systems. (AP Photo/Michael Weissenstein)
In this Jan. 25, 2013 photo, a detection officer with U.S. Customs and Border Protection takes photos of a potential drug-carrying boat from inside a P3 Orion Airborne Early Warning Aircraft while flying over waters near the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. The Central American country abolished its army in 1948 and plowed money into education, social benefits and environmental preservation. As a result, Costa Rican officials say, the country can?t battle ruthless and well-equipped Mexican drug cartels without U.S. help. The U.S. is patrolling Costa Rica?s skies and waters and providing millions of dollars in training and equipment to Costa Rican officials who have launched a tough line on crime backed by top-to-bottom transformation of the law-enforcement and justice systems. (AP Photo/Michael Weissenstein)
In this Jan. 25, 2013 photo, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection detection officer analyzes radar signals inside a P3 Orion Airborne Early Warning Aircraft while flying over waters near the Pacific coast of Costa Rica.The Central American country abolished its army in 1948 and plowed money into education, social benefits and environmental preservation. As a result, Costa Rican officials say, the country can?t battle ruthless and well-equipped Mexican drug cartels without U.S. help. The U.S. is patrolling Costa Rica?s skies and waters and providing millions of dollars in training and equipment to Costa Rican officials who have launched a tough line on crime backed by top-to-bottom transformation of the law-enforcement and justice systems. (AP Photo/Mike Weissenstein)
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In this Jan. 25, 2013 photo, U.S. Customs and Border Protection pilots navigate a P3 Orion Airborne Early Warning Aircraft while flying over waters near the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. The Central American country abolished its army in 1948 and plowed money into education, social benefits and environmental preservation. As a result, Costa Rican officials say, the country can?t battle ruthless and well-equipped Mexican drug cartels without U.S. help. The U.S. is patrolling Costa Rica?s skies and waters and providing millions of dollars in training and equipment to Costa Rican officials who have launched a tough line on crime backed by top-to-bottom transformation of the law-enforcement and justice systems. (AP Photo/Michael Weissenstein)
In this undated photo released by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Jan. 31, 2013, a P3 Orion Airborne Early Warning aircraft belonging to the CBP flies at an unspecified location. The Central American country abolished its army in 1948 and plowed money into education, social benefits and environmental preservation. As a result, Costa Rican officials say, the country can?t battle ruthless and well-equipped Mexican drug cartels without U.S. help. The U.S. is patrolling Costa Rica?s skies and waters and providing millions of dollars in training and equipment to Costa Rican officials who have launched a tough line on crime backed by top-to-bottom transformation of the law-enforcement and justice systems. (AP Photo/U.S. Customs and Border Protection)
LIBERIA, Costa Rica (AP) ? On a recent Friday morning at a gleaming new international airport in Costa Rica, hundreds of tourists from New York and Minnesota emerged blinking onto the sun-blasted tarmac. At the other end of the runway, eight Americans zipped into tan flight suits aboard a massive white surveillance plane.
As four propellers roared, the P3 Orion flew out above the tourists and over the hotels and beach clubs of the Pacific coast, its bulbous radar dish scanning for speedboats loaded with U.S.-bound cocaine. In the cabin's bank of radar screens, a dot pulsed just north of Panamanian waters. The P3 swooped down to 1,000 feet and soared past a tiny Costa Rican fishing boat. Using a long-lensed digital camera, one of the military veterans snapped a string of photos. A colleague radioed the boat's details back to the U.S.
This prosperous paradise of golden beaches and lush cloud-forest preserves is throwing itself wholeheartedly into the U.S. war on drugs as a flood of cocaine shipments and a surge in domestic crime erodes Costa Ricans' sense of proud isolation from the problems of the rest of Central America. Crime levels here are among the lowest in the region, but many Costa Ricans fear even the slightest possibility that their country could become more like Mexico, Guatemala or Honduras, where the unchecked power of drug cartels and ordinary criminals have millions of people living in fear.
In 1948, Costa Rica abolished its army, plowing money into education, social benefits and environmental preservation. As a result, Costa Rican officials say, the country whose laidback national slogan is "pura vida" ? pure life ? is poorly equipped to battle ruthless and well-equipped Mexican drug cartels. To assist, the U.S. is patrolling Costa Rica's skies and waters while also providing millions of dollars in training and equipment. The Costa Rican government, in turn, has launched a tough line on crime backed by a top-to-bottom transformation of its law-enforcement and justice systems.
"Costa Rica is today the closest the US has to a protectorate in Central America," said Sam Logan, director of Southern Pulse, a risk-analysis firm focused on Latin America.
Fed up with crime, many Costa Ricans are welcoming the change. A wide range of serious crimes have risen sharply in Costa Rica over the last decade, though some, like homicide, have begun to dip.
"Security in general is going backwards. You can't walk in peace in the street, you're not at peace at home, or anywhere," said Roberto Arce, a 23-year-old university student.
But a small group of critics fear that the orderly and deeply democratic nation known as "The Switzerland of Central America" may be losing fundamental aspects of its identity by implementing its own version of the "iron fist" policies in place around the region.
"The United States' fight against drugs, militarizing it, using violence, above all in the cases of Colombia and Mexico, hasn't led to results," said Carmen Munoz, a congresswoman who oversees human rights and national security issues for the opposition Citizens' Action Party and has worked to block U.S. warships from landing at Costa Rican ports.
"We have a tremendous fear that their goal is also to militarize the war against drugs in Central America," she said.
In recent years, Costa Rica has become a base for warehousing and repackaging drugs from Colombia that are then sent north to Mexico and the U.S., officials say. Investigations have confirmed the presence of some of Mexico's most-feared cartels, including the Familia Michoacana, the Sinaloa Cartel and the Gulf Cartel, said Mauricio Boraschi Hernandez, Costa Rica's National Anti-Drug Commissioner. Police also suspect the presence of groups allied with the Zetas, the brutal paramilitary cartel blamed for some of Mexico's most gruesome drug war massacres.
Costa Rica's growing role in international smuggling has fueled the growth of local drug markets, criminal organizations and crimes ranging from homicide to simple burglary, officials say.
The country's crime levels remain the second-lowest in Central America, after Nicaragua, and while tourism hasn't suffered, concern about crime among Costa Ricans is sky-high: the regional LatinoBarometro found last year that Costa Ricans have the second-highest perception of insecurity in Latin America, topped only by Venezuela.
"We have a serious problem," said Carlos Alvarado Valverde, head of the Costa Rican Institute on Drugs, a government agency charged with coordinating national anti-drug policy. "You're not only seeing the growth of the internal market for drug consumption, but the youth are increasingly being recruited for the crime of drug trafficking ... we're talking about true national criminal organizations dedicated to this."
In response, Costa Rica's conservative government has proposed looser wiretapping laws, easier confiscation of suspect assets and quicker approval of US warships docking in Costa Rican ports. President Laura Chinchilla also wants to drop a longstanding ban on extraditing Costa Ricans for prosecution.
As her government cracks down, the United States is training its officials to detect drugs and laundered money. Washington is equipping Costa Ricans with gear ranging from night vision goggles to a $2 million satellite and radio communications station on the Pacific Coast linked to the U.S. anti-drug command in Key West. The U.S. spent more than $18.4 million in direct security to Costa Rica last year.
Logan said the U.S. has deeper ties to Costa Rica than to other Central American countries receiving security and financial aid from Washington. The links include hundreds of millions of dollars in annual tourism revenue and massive amounts of real-estate investment, particularly in retirement and vacation homes. And Costa Rica's lack of an army makes it particularly dependent on U.S. security aid, he said.
"The United States is, and continues to be, the best ally that we have," Boraschi said. "We're becoming, I believe, a good partner."
The United States has funded the construction of two coast guard stations on the Pacific coast and donated two new interceptor boats worth $1.8 million. It funded Costa Rican police training with Latin American military special operations forces at an annual exercise run by the U.S. Southern Command. The U.S. has also spent more than $500,000 to help build a police crime-mapping computer network that the U.S. Embassy likens to the CompStat system partly credited with helping the New York Police Department reduce crime to historic lows.
A U.S. Treasury expert on money-laundering is embedded with Costa Rican law enforcement, helping train them on the fight against illicit funds.
Officials say their crackdown is producing more arrests and drug seizures, although they acknowledge that the rising numbers may also be driven by a higher volume of drugs entering the country.
Seizures of cocaine are on the rise, hitting 15 metric tons last year, although the number has risen and fallen over the years. The number of drug organizations Costa Rica says it's taken down doubled from 2006 to 2012, when 110 local and international drug gangs were hit.
Costa Rica's prison population increased more than 50 percent from 2006 to 2012 after it implemented quicker trials for criminal suspects allegedly caught in the act. Costa Rica now has the third-highest incarceration rate in Central America, after El Salvador and Panama.
Many of those jailed in Costa Rica's drug fight are being held for relatively minor crimes.
Vanessa Jimenez Monge, a 34-year-old mother of three young children, was sentenced to eight years in prison on drug possession charges after police raided the house she shared with her brother, who was dealing crack and marijuana.
After a year behind bars, she hopes to get out in a little less than two for good behavior. Her children have been taken into custody by the government.
"With my children, it's has been my worst nightmare," she said in an interview, her eyes tearing. "They're almost institutionalized, just like me."
The director of the prison where Jimenez lives has become an unlikely critic of Costa Rica's get-tough policies after watching the population she oversees double during her six years in charge. Most inmates are there for drug-related crimes.
"'We'll put more penalties in place,' according to them that's the solution," director Mariela de los Angeles Chaves said. "It's not going to relieve the pressure."
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AP interactive available for this story: http://hosted.ap.org/interactives/2013/drug-war/
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Associated Press writer Cesar Barrantes in San Jose, Costa Rica, contributed to this report.
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Lebbeus Woods, South Africa and Apartheid at SFMOMA (Photos)
It's President's Day and while a lot of places are closed, SFMOMA is open for business with a new exhibit of the work of architect Lebbeus Woods. Recognized beyond architecture, Lebbeus Woods (1940?2012) has been hailed by leading designers, filmmakers, writers, and artists alike as a significant voice in recent decades. His works resonate across many disciplines for their conceptual potency, imaginative breadth, jarring poetry, and ethical depth.
Woods, who sadly passed away last year as planning for this exhibition was under way, had an enormous influence on the field of architecture over the past three decades, and yet the built structures to his name are few. The extensive drawings and models on view present an original perspective on the built environment ? one that holds high regard for humanity's ability to resist, respond, and create in adverse conditions.
"Maybe I can show what could happen if we lived by a different set of rules," he once said. SFMOMA has collected Woods's work since the mid-1990s, amassing the broadest collection of his work anywhere; the exhibition will feature these holdings, as well as a selection of loans from institutional and private collections.
From February 16 through June 2, 2013
South Africa and Apartheid: This exhibition illuminates a vital, difficult, and contested period in the recent history of South Africa from the perspectives of three photographers: David Goldblatt, Ernest Cole, and Billy Monk. The son of Eastern European immigrants, documentary photographer Goldblatt came of age under apartheid and observed the increasing entrenchment of racial inequality in his country. His early project In Boksburg (1982) portrays a typical suburban white community shaped by what the artist calls "white dreams and white proprieties."
The photographs, taken from a mostly frontal, horizontal view point, could be from any white town in the 1950's, with the same racism and ignorance. At that point, the White Afrikaners did not acknowledge black Afrikaners except as servants, to be kept as far away from their privileged life as possible.
In one photograph, a Caucasian politician is photographed, standing in front of a banner which ironically calls for the "brotherhood of man." Another photograph shows Black African workers meeting with white management reflecting a snapshot of black African suspicion and fear vs smug white privilege.
Included at Goldblatt's request, photographs by Cole and Monk expand the exhibition's field of view. Cole, a self-taught black South African documentary photographer, observed the other side of the racial divide in the 1960s, making photographs that are eloquently observant and deeply humane.
Of the three, it is Cole and Monk whose photos are the most revealing and whose stories have the most tragic outcome.
Cole, a tiny black photographer with a huge vision was inspired by Henri Cartier-Bresson to created a powerful pictorial record of apartheid South Africa. He was forced into exile in 1966 and his life crumbled. At one point, he was homeless, living on the streets of New York. Mr. Cole died at 49 in 1990, just a week after Nelson Mandela walked free. His sister flew back to South Africa with his ashes on her lap. His images still have the power to shock and anger even those of us who haven't lived under apartheid.
Monk's work provides an extraordinarily evocative glimpse of Cape Town's little-seen late 60s bohemian demi-monde. Monk was a night club bouncer and not very good at his job. In a bid to supplement his income, he started taking photographs of the clientele.
Monk would snap his subjects with the 35mm Pentax camera he had offloaded from one of the Japanese sailors trading under-the-table goods, and sell the pictures as mementoes of the evening. He was a trusted fixture in the club, friendly, part of the relaxed atmosphere where all races would mingle and have fun in a place which ignored South Africa's race laws.
Monk gave up photography when Polaroids begun to flood the snapshot market and tried to make his living in other ways. But his work was discovered by Jac de Villiers, a photographr who had moved into his old studio ? he later told de Villiers he had little feeling for this instant product.
Despite his distinctly criminal past (he?d been a safe-breaker, a poacher and done jail-time before he ever became a bouncer), he had settled down somewhat, making a small living running a leather shop and a vegetarian restaurant, just a few blocks down from the Catacombs on Long Street.
An exhibition of the work was opened by David Goldblatt in Johannesburg's Market Gallery in July 1982, but Billy Monk did not attend. He was diving for diamonds off the Port Nolloth coast. The show was critically acclaimed but the itinerant Monk never got to read the reviews nor see the show: he was shot in the chest at close range in a street fight just two weeks after it opened.
In November of the same year, Lin Sampson wrote a wonderfully descriptive feature on Monk's short, fast life for the South African Sunday Times magazine, which was been reprinted in the book, "Billy Monk: Nightclub Photographs, " by Dewi Lewis.
"He died on Saturday evening in a house with turquoise-blue walls and a bar with a glitter top that had lost its shine from too many elbows sliding along it ? A girl told me what had happened ? Monk died protecting his friend Lionel in a tacky argument over moving furniture ? Before he fell to the ground, he stood there helpless and plunging, his arms spread out in shock and pleading. 'Now you've gone 'n' killed me,' he said."
These three groups of pictures are complemented by a selection of Goldblatt's recent, post-apartheid photographs, sober yet hopeful records of an imperfect, still-evolving democracy. Closing March 5.
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Monday, February 18, 2013
New York's Best New Pasta Dishes - Eater Maps - Eater NY
Pasta is best enjoyed in large quantities, on cold winter days. With that in mind, here's a guide to New York's best new pasta dishes. All of the restaurants on this map opened within the last year or so, and all of them offer pasta dishes that are worth seeking out.
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Cancer-Causing Photochemicals Found in Beijing Smog
It turns out this wasn?t your ordinary smog. The Chinese Academy of Sciences said on Saturday the super thick air that chocked Beijing in January was packed with large amounts of toxic organic chemicals. They?re known as photochemicals, and if researchers are right, Beijing?s air has just become far more deadly than expected.
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[Li Xinshu, Professor, Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University]:
?Nitrogen compounds that appear in smog are usually nitrogen dioxide. This and sulfur dioxide usually come from car emissions. If the weather is bad and humidity is high, these will turn into larger particles, and is can cause cancer if inhaled.?
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These photochemicals killed more than 800 people in Los Angeles a hundred years ago. And, according to data released by the Chinese government, a lot of people in China were breathing in this same toxic compound, and way more of it.
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But the effects of the toxic air won?t be limited to just China. Smog travels far. The Japanese Environmental Ministry is reporting the Beijing smog has also blanketed Tokyo.?
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Researchers as far away as Oregon in the United States have discovered that Chinese pollution can even reach the US on the Pacific jet stream. It?s a large, high-altitude current of air connecting that circles the world from west to east.?
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But what about Beijing residents? What can they do to protect themselves? It turns out, very little.
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[Mr Li, Beijing Resident]:
?We?re helpless, when we have no rights, or when our rights are taken away, there is nothing we can do. We don?t have the right to choose our officials, so they don?t work for us. The natural environment we live in reflects our political environment?
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It can take many years for lung cancer to develop after exposure to photochemical smog, so we?re likely to be seeing the effects of Beijing?s blackest day for years to come.
Source: http://ntdtv.org/en/news/china/2013-02-18/cancer-causing-photochemicals-found-in-beijing-smog.html
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Sunday, February 17, 2013
Spaghettini with garlic & chili oil {aka the world's easiest pasta ...
February 16, 2013
I love dishes that are so simple they don?t need a recipe. You know the ones ? you turn to them time and time again when you?re too tired, lazy or uninspired to come up with something more imaginative.
Pasta with olive oil, garlic and chili flakes is what I make when my brain is on autopilot (which tends to happen after a long day at the office). I guess what I?m trying to say is this: Don?t make fun of me for featuring the most rudimentary of pastas on my blog. Time to go back to basics!
What do you like to cook when you?re running on autopilot?? And don?t say takeout :)
Recipe: Spaghettini with garlic & chili oil
Ingredients:
- 1 package (1 lb) spaghettini or other thin pasta
- 2 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil (plus more for drizzling)
- 2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
- 1-2 tbsp dried chili flakes
- Parmigiano-Reggiano or Romano cheese, grated
- Salt and pepper
Directions:
Bring a large pot of generously salted water to a boil. ?Add the pasta and cook until just al dente, about 7 minutes.
While the pasta is cooking, heat the oil in a large wide pan over medium heat. ?Add the garlic and chili flakes and cook, stirring, until the garlic is softened, about 5 minutes.
Before draining the pasta, scoop out about half a cup of the pasta water and set aside. ?Drain the pasta and transfer directly to the pan with the garlic and chili. ?Turn off the heat, add the reserved pasta water and toss to coat the pasta with the sauce. ?Top with extra chili flakes and grated cheese, if desired. ?Serve immediately.
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App-Makers Appeal To President, FAA
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Thirteen companies claiming to be "part of the solution" to flight services, modernization, and pilot training, have signed a letter to President Obama, the FAA, and Congress, arguing that the FAA's "cost recovery" pursuits threaten entrepreneurship. At issue is the FAA's stated intent to impose a per person user fee on digital products created by private companies and produced from content originated at the FAA. The FAA claims the new digital products have driven consumers away from its own products resulting in a $5.3 million shortfall it now seeks to recover. Among the letter's signatories are the founders of ForeFlight, FlightAware, WingX, and SkyVector as well as the chairman of RedBird Flight Simulations and the CEO of Avidyne. Find the full content of the letter, here (PDF). |
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Saturday, February 16, 2013
School Bus Drivers’ Union in New York Considers Ending Strike
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Good Charlotte Singer, Soundwave Festival Organizer Get in Twitter War
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Well, it was more like Maddah attacked Madden, who responded once and then deleted it (see it here), only responding again after picking up that dinosaur device known as the phone to call Maddah and hash it out after Maddah's torrent of 140-character assaults.
In the interim, though, Maddah took aim at Good Charlotte's twins ?Joel and his guitarist brother Benji- for their treatment of fans and the fact that they went from PETA supporters to KFC endorsers. Ouch.
It started when Maddah posted a link to Music Feeds' petition, "Get the Madden Brothers Out of Australia."
Fans came to their defense, even though Maddah said they were "money-grubbing cunts with zero principles and disdain for their fans." Yikes.
The trash talk eventually made it to Joel's feed. His reply? "I don't mind you hating on us but Encouraging other people to hate us? Keep talking shit brother it suits you."
Maddah went off, hurling insult after insult, even saying that Madden made fun of an overweight fan. His dislike for the brothers and the band dates back to the 2004 Soundwave, which the band played. We're not quite sure what that's all about, but it's now water under the bridge.
After all this drama, the two spoke on the phone and righted the punk rock ship. Joel even said that they squashed the beef out of respect, talking for the first time in 10 years.
Source: http://www.noisecreep.com/2013/02/15/good-charlotte-joel-madden-twitter-fight/
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Friday, February 15, 2013
Predicting key property in Andromeda's satellites
Feb. 14, 2013 ? Using modified laws of gravity, researchers from Case Western Reserve University and Weizmann Institute of Science closely predicted a key property measured in faint dwarf galaxies that are satellites of the nearby giant spiral galaxy Andromeda.
The predicted property in this study is the velocity dispersion, which is the average velocity of objects within a galaxy relative to each other. Astronomers can use velocity dispersion to determine the accelerations of objects within the galaxy and, roughly, the mass of a galaxy, and vice-versa.
To calculate the velocity dispersion for each dwarf galaxy, the researchers utilized Modified Newtonian Dynamics, MOND for short, which is a hypothesis that attempts to resolve what appears to be an insufficient amount of mass in galaxies needed to support their orbital speeds.
MOND suggests that, under a certain condition, Newton's law of gravity must be altered. That hypothesis is less widely accepted than the hypothesis that all galaxies contain unseen dark matter that provides needed mass.
"MOND comes out surprisingly well in this new test," said Stacy McGaugh, astronomy professor at Case Western Reserve. "If we're right about dark matter, this shouldn't happen."
McGaugh teamed with Mordehai Milgrom, the father of MOND and professor of physics and astrophysics at Weizmann Institute in Israel. Their study, "Andromeda Dwarfs in the Light of MOND" will be published in the Astrophysical Journal.
Astronomers and physicists need some way to explain why galaxies rotate faster than predicted by the law of gravity without flying apart. That spurred researchers to theorize that dark matter, first assumed by Dutch astronomer Jan Oort in 1932, is gathered in and around galaxies, adding the mass needed to hold galaxies together.
Dissatisfied with that hypothesis, Milgrom offered MOND, which says that Newton's force law must be tweaked at low acceleration, eleven orders of magnitude lower than what we feel on the surface of Earth. Acceleration above that threshold is linearly proportional to the force of gravity -- as Newton's law states -- but below the threshold, is not, he posits. When the force law is tweaked under that limitation, the modification can resolve the mass discrepancy.
Early in his career, McGaugh believed in dark matter. But, over time, he's found the hypothesis comes up short in a number of aspects while he's found increasing evidence that supports MOND.
In this paper, researchers tested MOND with dwarf spheroidal galaxies. These very low-surface brightness galaxies are satellites of larger galaxies. By the standards of galaxies they are tiny, containing only a few hundred thousand stars.
"These dwarfs are spread exceedingly thin. Their light is spread over hundreds to thousands of light-years. These systems pose a strong test of MOND because their low stellar density predicts low accelerations," McGaugh said.
McGaugh and Milgrom used the luminosity of the galaxies, an indicator of stellar mass, and MOND to make their calculations and predict the velocity dispersions of 17 faint galaxies. In 16 cases, the predictions closely matched the velocity dispersions measured by others. In the last case, the data from independent observers differed from one another.
"Many predictions were bang on," McGaugh said. "Typically, the better the data, the better the agreement."
The scientists also used MOND to predict velocity dispersions for 10 more faint dwarf galaxies in Andromeda. They are awaiting measurements to refute or verify this prediction.
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Clues to why most survived China melamine scandal
Clues to why most survived China melamine scandal
AP Medical Writer
WASHINGTON ? Scientists wondering why some children and not others survived one of China's worst food safety scandals have uncovered a suspect: germs that live in the gut.
In 2008, at least six babies died and 300,000 became sick after being fed infant formula that had been deliberately and illegally tainted with the industrial chemical melamine. There were some lingering puzzles: How did it cause kidney failure, and why wasn't everyone equally at risk?
A team of researchers from the U.S. and China re-examined those questions in a series of studies in rats. In findings released Wednesday, they reported that certain intestinal bacteria play a crucial role in how the body handles melamine.
The intestines of all mammals teem with different species of bacteria that perform different jobs. To see if one of those activities involves processing melamine, researchers from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and Shanghai Jiao Tong University gave lab rats antibiotics to kill off some of the germs ? and then fed them melamine.
The antibiotic-treated rats excreted twice as much of the melamine as rats that didn't get antibiotics, and they experienced fewer kidney stones and other damage.
A closer look identified why: A particular intestinal germ ? named Klebsiella terrigena ? was metabolizing melamine to create a more toxic byproduct, the team reported in the journal Science Translational Medicine.
Previous studies have estimated that fewer than 1 percent of healthy people harbor that bacteria species. A similar fraction of melamine-exposed children in China got sick, the researchers wrote. But proving that link would require studying stool samples preserved from affected children, they cautioned.
Still, the research is pretty strong, said microbiologist Jack Gilbert of the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory, who wasn't involved in the new study.
More importantly, "this paper adds to a growing body of evidence which suggests that microbes in the body play a significant role in our response to toxicity and in our health in general," Gilbert said.
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Julianne Hough And Josh Duhamel Bring Out The Gimp For After Hours
By Joel Hanek Valentine's Day is here — and that means you're probably out with your loved one seeing "A Good Day to Die Hard." Go and do that, and then come back and watch the next most romantic thing: the latest MTV After Hours with the stars of "Safe Haven." MTV Movies correspondent Josh [...]
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pomposity stet: Computer Forensics - Discovering What The Bad ...
Computer forensics is like the CSI research programs on the television. Using systems and high level methods, a possible crime will be reconstructed by a computer forensic scientist using the data that one computer systems. This data can sometimes include hidden directories, files, mail tracks and other relevant indications.
Computer Forensics may be the study of computers or computer related data in relation to an analysis by a enforcement agency for use within a court of law. While this technology may be as old as computers themselves, the improvements in technology are continually revising this science.
It?s easier to monitor what was done when, though by whom is still challenging, while all computer languages are created with zeros and ones. Forensic science has done well to keep up with the job of tracing and tracking what?s done and creation of a schedule in an try to reconstruct a possible crime. Most people simply believe a delete key really removed the data, while it can be done to clean and remove data from a hard drive. In fact, the file location was simply removed by the delete key from an file and the actual data remains safely on the device. It is as much as the data recovery abilities of the forensic computer personnel to capture and restore that data without modification.
Computer forensics can be utilized to track emails, instant messaging and almost every other type of computer related communications. This is necessary, specially in the world where computers and information travel round the world in seconds. Package sniffers could actually be placed within a data flow and give info on what?s working through the community in real time. That is really incredible considering the millions upon millions of data packets going through anybody the main community.
Computer forensic science is an interesting niche in what the law states enforcement field that?s seldom regarded as a vocation. The field is considered by many to be spacious for anyone with the project to master the skills, as it is fairly new. Unlike several computer relevant jobs, a computer forensic expert won?t be outsourced to a nation on the other side of the entire world. The privacy of the data is just too sensitive and painful to allow it to travel throughout the world just to save lots of only a little income. educational technology jobs
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Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Obama's Afghan plan worries India
Washington, Feb. 13: Without mentioning India even once, President Barack Obama posed a huge foreign policy challenge before New Delhi in his State of the Union address last night.
His announcement that half of America?s troops in Afghanistan will be pulled out in the next 12 months ?and by the end of next year, our war in Afghanistan will be over? has heightened the urgency of India?s focus on Kabul with its attendant national security implications.
Even before Obama took to the rostrum on Capitol Hill to fulfil his mandated constitutional duty of informing the Congress of the State of the Union, the first 50 shipping containers of American military equipment from Afghanistan left the country last weekend as part of the drawdown.
The containers, significantly from New Delhi?s perspective, entered Pakistan from Kandahar through the Chaman border crossing in Baluchistan, a spokesman for the US military said. A second lot of 25 containers followed and the process will gather speed with Obama?s time table for withdrawal announced last night.
The arrangement puts Pakistan at the front and centre of the President?s promise in his first term, reiterated in his inaugural address last month, to end the war in Afghanistan by 2014. ?Tonight, I can announce that over the next year, 34,000 American troops will come home from Afghanistan. This drawdown will continue. And by the end of next year, our war in Afghanistan will be over.?
The Americans have 66,000 troops now in Afghanistan and the process of pulling them out as well as US equipment stationed over a decade there will mean Pakistan will have a whip hand over the White House and the Pentagon.
Between November 2011 and July last year, Pakistan?s chief of army staff, Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, showed how he would use that whip hand by closing this route for Nato supplies after an American air attack killed 24 Pakistani troops along its border with Afghanistan.
Islamabad reopened the route only after the Americans apologised for the deaths.
Foreign secretary Ranjan Mathai said last week that the US has ?shared very candidly their own plans for the future? of Afghanistan and tried to calm concerns in India that the Taliban, with support from the army General Headquarters in Rawalpindi, will either take over Kabul after the American withdrawal or run Afghanistan on their terms.
In an interview with former ambassador T.P. Sreenivasan on a Malayalam television channel, Mathai revealed that an India-US dialogue on Afghanistan would be held shortly in which several agencies of the Indian government would take part.
He appeared to challenge Obama?s matter-of-fact assertion that ?our war in Afghanistan will be over? by the end of next year when he said, obviously based on what Washington has shared with South Block, that the extent of US presence post-2014 is yet to be decided.
Based on these exchanges with the Americans, Mathai insisted that there is no reason to conclude that the American withdrawal would be destabilising for Afghanistan.
He expressed optimism over the course of an India-Afghanistan-US trilateral dialogue launched last September in New York and was confident that the capacity of Afghan national forces for self-defence was improving. However, he said: ?Gaps on the intelligence side remain.?According to the foreign secretary, a complicating factor would be elections in Afghanistan in 2014 and the need to ensure a stable transition of power. But an encouraging factor was the ?huge growth of civil society, the new forces which have been thrown up? that could stabilise the country.
For the Indian American community, it was comforting to hear the President remember a huge tragedy which affected them last year when a gunman killed six Sikhs at a gurdwara in Wisconsin. A police officer, Brian Murphy, who tackled the gunman without concern for his own safety was First Lady Michelle Obama?s guest at the State of Union address.
As television cameras focused on this hero, the President said: ?We should follow the example of a police officer named Brian Murphy. When a gunman opened fire on a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, and Brian was the first to arrive, he did not consider his own safety. He fought back until help arrived, and ordered his fellow officers to protect the safety of the Americans worshipping inside, even as he lay bleeding from 12 bullet wounds.?
Obama?s unhesitating embrace of these Sikhs as ?Americans? will go some way with their community which has a slew of grievances that they are often racially profiled and discriminated against by US law enforcement and security personnel.
Obama went on: ?When asked how he did that, Brian said: ?That?s just the way we are made.? We may do different jobs, and wear different uniforms, and hold different views than the person beside us. But as Americans, we all share the same proud title: We are citizens. It is a word that doesn't just describe our nationality or legal status. It describes the way we are made.?
The progressive lines which permeated Obama?s inauguration speech last month were taken forward in last night?s address. He asked Congress to raise the federal minimum wage to nine dollars an hour. Obama raised the minimum wage to $7.25 within six months of taking office in 2009.
In a turn of phrase that caught small government advocates among Republicans off guard, the President said: ?It is not a bigger government we need, but a smarter government that sets priorities and invests in broad-based growth.?
A spoiler was North Korea, which conducted a nuclear test on the morning of Obama?s speech. A paragraph was hastily added to the address at the eleventh hour. ?The regime in North Korea must know they will only achieve security and prosperity by meeting their international obligations. Provocations of the sort we saw last night will only further isolate them, as we stand by our allies, strengthen our own missile defense and lead the world in taking firm action in response to these threats.?
Source: http://www.telegraphindia.com/1130214/jsp/foreign/story_16560701.jsp
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