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Saturday, January 14, 2012
M 4.7, near the east coast of Honshu, Japan
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| Magnitude | 4.7 |
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| Date-Time | |
| Location | 36.676?N, 141.526?E |
| Depth | 40 km (24.9 miles) |
| Region | NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN |
| Distances | 70 km (43 miles) SE of Iwaki, Honshu, Japan 99 km (61 miles) ENE of Mito, Honshu, Japan 130 km (80 miles) SE of Koriyama, Honshu, Japan 194 km (120 miles) NE of TOKYO, Japan |
| Location Uncertainty | horizontal +/- 17.8 km (11.1 miles); depth +/- 10.3 km (6.4 miles) |
| Parameters | NST=100, Nph=101, Dmin=298.3 km, Rmss=0.86 sec, Gp=119?, M-type=body wave magnitude (Mb), Version=7 |
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| Event ID | usc0007hud |
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Friday, January 13, 2012
Paul McCartney offers 'Kisses' with new album
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By Randee Dawn
Paul McCartney's upcoming album has a track listing, a release date (Feb. 7) and a divisive title, "Kisses on the Bottom," according to Reuters.
Now, before that title starts getting taken out of context, it's worth knowing that the album will be a collection of (mostly) standards, including the 1935 Fats Waller track, "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself A Letter," which includes in a lyric a reference to the Xs and Os a person sends at the end of a letter: "I'm gonna sit right down and write myself a letter, and make believe it came from you / I'm gonna write words oh so sweet / They're gonna knock me off of my feet / A lot of kisses on the bottom, I'll be glad I got 'em."
The album title is getting a little flack from the British press. NME music magazine created a "50 Worst Album Titles in History" list in its honor (other entries included REO Speedwagon's "You Can Tune a Piano but You Can't Tuna Fish" and Charlotte Church's "Tissues and Issues").
Undoubtedly, McCartney has weathered worse in his career. And in any case, he doesn't have time to worry, because the new album is getting some very special treatment, according to Showbiz 411 -- a TV special taped in Hollywood during Grammy week. The site also reports that McCartney will sing an original new track from the album, "My Valentine," on the Grammys on Feb. 12. (Another original track on the release is "Only Our Hearts," which features Stevie Wonder on harmonica.)
The album currently has 14 songs on it, but a deluxe CD will feature two bonus tracks ("Baby's Request" and "My One and Only Love") as well as access to a download of a live show and special packaging, according to the musician's website. And for those interested in the cover art? McCartney is keeping it all in the family: His daughter took the picture of him holding a large bouquet of flowers that adorns the album's front.
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Thursday, January 12, 2012
A penny-per-ounce tax on sugar-sweetened beverages keeps the doctor away and saves money
ScienceDaily (Jan. 9, 2012) ? assistant professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. Dr. Wang notes that the tax would have the greatest impact among younger adults and men of all ages, who drink more sugar-sweetened beverages than older adults and women.
Using data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey for the years 2003-06 and a questionnaire on food choices and frequency of meals, the investigators looked at two ways that a decrease in sugary beverage consumption would impact health: overall weight reduction and decreased risk of type 2 diabetes, both of which reduce cardiovascular disease risk over time.
According to the investigators, a combination of water, diet drinks, and more nutritious caloric beverages would likely replace the sugar-sweetened beverages, resulting in an estimated savings of as many as 60 calories for every 100 calories of sugar-sweetened drink not consumed.
"With the estimated number of 860,000 fewer obese adults ages 25 to 64, and given the greater reductions in consumption among younger people, the longer-term health benefits would be far greater than the impacts during the first 10 years," noted Dr. Wang.
Sugar-sweetened beverages are cheap to buy, but they cost the U.S. plenty: about $174 billion per year on diabetes treatment costs and $147 billion on other obesity-related health problems. Because weight gain is just one factor in how sugary beverages contribute to diabetes and heart disease, the researchers point out, even if all the calories saved by cutting soda consumption were replaced and body weight remained the same, cutting consumption would still reduce diabetes and heart disease.
Some opponents to a soda tax warn that it would disproportionately burden low-income households, which purchase more sugar-sweetened beverages than those in higher-income brackets. Dr. Wang and her colleagues pointed out that the evidence is mixed regarding whether low-income consumers are more price-sensitive when it comes to these beverages. In addition, low-income people and racial and ethnic minorities bear a greater burden of obesity, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes, these groups stand to benefit the most from such a tax policy in terms of their health and savings.
"Sugary soft drinks really are liquid candy, and their low purchase price hides the true costs of health problems associated with them," said Lee Goldman, MD, MPH, Harold and Margaret Hatch Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology and Dean of the Faculties of Health Sciences and Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center, and also a coauthor on the paper. "Our model estimates that a penny-per-ounce tax would substantially reduce obesity, diabetes and heart disease among adults in the United States."
The study was supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the American Heart Association.
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Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Ex-Texas Tech QB off to Memphis
APAfter announcing he was transferring from Texas Tech,?Jacob Karam had whittled his potential destinations down to three Conference USA schools ? Houston, Memphis and UTEP.
Two weeks later, that list has officially been whittled down to one.
Speaking to the Memphis Commercial Appeal, the quarterback confirmed that he will be transferring to Memphis and continue his collegiate playing career with the Tigers. ?As Karam has already graduated from Tech, he will be eligible to play immediately and have two years of eligibility remaining. ?Karam will start classes at the school later this week, and will participate in spring practice, which for the Tigers is set to commence in late February.
The redshirt sophomore said the presence of new U of M head coach Justin Fuente was the primary factor in his decision to move on from the Red Raiders to the Tigers..
?The facilities are nice; they exceeded my expectations,? Karam said. ?The weight room is nice; it exceeded my expectations. But what sold me were the people, and it starts with coach Fuente and his staff. ?
?What I like is the people here are genuine. And they are hungry for a winner. I?m going to give it to them.?
In five games last season, Karam?completed 9-of-17 passes for 104 yards and two touchdowns.
Source: http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/01/08/ex-texas-tech-qb-off-to-memphis/
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Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Computer simulations shed light on the physics of rainbows
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Computer scientists at UC San Diego, who set out to simulate all rainbows found in nature, wound up answering questions about the physics of rainbows as well. The scientists recreated a wide variety of rainbows primary rainbows, secondary rainbows, redbows that form at sunset and cloudbows that form on foggy days by using an improved method for simulating how light interacts with water drops of various shapes and sizes. Their new approach even yielded realistic simulations of difficult-to-replicate "twinned" rainbows that split their primary bow in two.
UC San Diego alumnus Iman Sadeghi, who did the work while a Ph.D. student at the Jacobs School of Engineering, his advisor, computer science professor Henrik Wann Jensen, and scientists from Spain, England and Switzerland, are set to publish their findings in ACM Transactions on Graphics in December of this year.
"This goes beyond computer graphics," Jensen said. "We now have an almost complete picture of how rainbows form."
Jensen is no stranger to advances in computer graphics. He earned an Academy Award in 2004 for research that brought life-like skin to animated characters. He has worked on a number of Hollywood blockbusters, including James Cameron's "Avatar."
Jensen, Sadeghi and colleagues originally set out to simulate rainbows to better understand how spherical water drops interact with light, resulting in the bright, multi-colored arcs that we are used to seeing when rain stops or in tropical, humid weather. They were hoping to improve techniques used in animated movies and video games.
"You usually don't get the opportunity to study such beautiful phenomena while working on your Ph.D. thesis," said Sadeghi, who is now a software engineer in the graphics division of Google in Santa Monica. "There is a lot more to rainbows than meets the eye."
As they started running various simulations, the scientists realized that the interaction of light with spherical drops could not explain some kinds of rainbows, such as twinned rainbows. Scientists turned to research showing that, as a water drop falls, air pressure flattens the bottom of it and shapes it like a burger. Jensen and his team called these slightly deformed water drops "burgeroids." "It's not a very mathematical term, but we like to use it," Jensen said. Simulations based on the so-called burgeroids, rather than on spherical drops of water, allowed the researchers to replicate a wide range of rainbows found in nature. "We are the first to present an accurate simulation of twinned rainbows," Sadeghi said.
The basic mechanism behind the formation of rainbows has been well understood for hundreds of years: A beam of light is both reflected and refracted within the water drop, and becomes strongly concentrated near the "rainbow angle" in the drop. The rainbow angle changes with the color of the light. As a result, sunlight separates into its spectral components, forming the colors we see in the sky. "The variation in the appearance of rainbows is due to the size and shape of rain drops" Sadeghi said.
It is surprising that the physics of rainbows are still not completely understood, Jensen said. In the past, eminent scientists, including Isaac Newton and French mathematician Rene Descartes, made calculations and conducted experiments to explain how rainbows form. But today, funding for rainbow research is scarce and so is work on the topic.
Jensen's quest to learn about the physics of rainbows led him to the Light and Color in Nature conference at St. Mary's College in St. Mary's City, Md. He served as keynote speaker and met Philip Laven, an internationally renowned expert on rainbows, who became one of the study's co-authors.
Until now, most simulations of rainbows had assumed that water drops are spherical, which isn't true for large rain drops, Laven said. In this paper, researchers have adopted a completely different approach and developed a more realistic model to recreate rainbows, he said.
"The simulations shown in this paper offer the prospect of a better understanding of real rainbows," Laven said. "I hope that the next step will be to use these new techniques for a systematic investigation of rainbows caused by realistically shaped rain drops."
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Jensen, Sadeghi, Laven and their colleagues plan to present their findings at the SIGGRAPH conference in 2012, which will take place in Los Angeles. Jensen also plans to attend the next Light and Color in Nature conference, which will take place in Alaska. Will he try to simulate the Northern Lights next? He just might, he said.
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Share ] Contact: Ioana Patringenaru
ipatrin@ucsd.edu
858-822-0899
University of California - San Diego
Computer scientists at UC San Diego, who set out to simulate all rainbows found in nature, wound up answering questions about the physics of rainbows as well. The scientists recreated a wide variety of rainbows primary rainbows, secondary rainbows, redbows that form at sunset and cloudbows that form on foggy days by using an improved method for simulating how light interacts with water drops of various shapes and sizes. Their new approach even yielded realistic simulations of difficult-to-replicate "twinned" rainbows that split their primary bow in two.
UC San Diego alumnus Iman Sadeghi, who did the work while a Ph.D. student at the Jacobs School of Engineering, his advisor, computer science professor Henrik Wann Jensen, and scientists from Spain, England and Switzerland, are set to publish their findings in ACM Transactions on Graphics in December of this year.
"This goes beyond computer graphics," Jensen said. "We now have an almost complete picture of how rainbows form."
Jensen is no stranger to advances in computer graphics. He earned an Academy Award in 2004 for research that brought life-like skin to animated characters. He has worked on a number of Hollywood blockbusters, including James Cameron's "Avatar."
Jensen, Sadeghi and colleagues originally set out to simulate rainbows to better understand how spherical water drops interact with light, resulting in the bright, multi-colored arcs that we are used to seeing when rain stops or in tropical, humid weather. They were hoping to improve techniques used in animated movies and video games.
"You usually don't get the opportunity to study such beautiful phenomena while working on your Ph.D. thesis," said Sadeghi, who is now a software engineer in the graphics division of Google in Santa Monica. "There is a lot more to rainbows than meets the eye."
As they started running various simulations, the scientists realized that the interaction of light with spherical drops could not explain some kinds of rainbows, such as twinned rainbows. Scientists turned to research showing that, as a water drop falls, air pressure flattens the bottom of it and shapes it like a burger. Jensen and his team called these slightly deformed water drops "burgeroids." "It's not a very mathematical term, but we like to use it," Jensen said. Simulations based on the so-called burgeroids, rather than on spherical drops of water, allowed the researchers to replicate a wide range of rainbows found in nature. "We are the first to present an accurate simulation of twinned rainbows," Sadeghi said.
The basic mechanism behind the formation of rainbows has been well understood for hundreds of years: A beam of light is both reflected and refracted within the water drop, and becomes strongly concentrated near the "rainbow angle" in the drop. The rainbow angle changes with the color of the light. As a result, sunlight separates into its spectral components, forming the colors we see in the sky. "The variation in the appearance of rainbows is due to the size and shape of rain drops" Sadeghi said.
It is surprising that the physics of rainbows are still not completely understood, Jensen said. In the past, eminent scientists, including Isaac Newton and French mathematician Rene Descartes, made calculations and conducted experiments to explain how rainbows form. But today, funding for rainbow research is scarce and so is work on the topic.
Jensen's quest to learn about the physics of rainbows led him to the Light and Color in Nature conference at St. Mary's College in St. Mary's City, Md. He served as keynote speaker and met Philip Laven, an internationally renowned expert on rainbows, who became one of the study's co-authors.
Until now, most simulations of rainbows had assumed that water drops are spherical, which isn't true for large rain drops, Laven said. In this paper, researchers have adopted a completely different approach and developed a more realistic model to recreate rainbows, he said.
"The simulations shown in this paper offer the prospect of a better understanding of real rainbows," Laven said. "I hope that the next step will be to use these new techniques for a systematic investigation of rainbows caused by realistically shaped rain drops."
###
Jensen, Sadeghi, Laven and their colleagues plan to present their findings at the SIGGRAPH conference in 2012, which will take place in Los Angeles. Jensen also plans to attend the next Light and Color in Nature conference, which will take place in Alaska. Will he try to simulate the Northern Lights next? He just might, he said.
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Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Tough Work Lies Ahead In Climate Talks
In Durban, South Africa, thousands of men and women poured into the streets in front of the International Conference Center, where United Nations talks about climate change are taking place. Host Audie Cornish speaks with NPR's Richard Harris, who is at the conference.
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In Durban, South Africa, thousands of men and women poured into the streets in front of the International Conference Center there, where United Nations talks about climate change are taking place.
(SOUNDBITE OF WOMEN SINGING)
CORNISH: NPR's Richard Harris is at the talks and listened to speeches, songs and other appeals to diplomats to do more and act quickly in the face of a rapidly changing climate. He joins now from the conference center.
Hello there, Richard.
RICHARD HARRIS, BYLINE: Hi, Audie. How are you?
CORNISH: Good. Richard, this weekend marks the midpoint of the talks. Can you give us an update on the status?
HARRIS: Sure. Well, the first week of the talks is generally taken over by the lower-level negotiators. Let's remember what they are trying to do is come up with an agreement of some sort, to help slow the pace of global warming - an enormous task. The negotiators who've been here this past week have been working on text, and sort of trying to get the ducks in a row.
What happens over this weekend is the chief negotiators show up, the heads of the delegation, and they have usually more maneuvering room from their governments to actually cut deals.
CORNISH: Once those diplomats get there, what are the points of contention at the moment that they're going to have to take on?
HARRIS: Well, the two biggest are really what the future of these negotiations will look like and money. As for the future of the talks, the key part of the Kyoto Protocol, which was enacted in 1997 - was negotiated, will expire at the end of next year. And the big question is what will take its place? Will there be a second commitment period under this treaty, or will there be something else that will be substituted for it?
And that's a very, very delicate point here because lots of people have pretty well given up on the Kyoto Treaty. The United States never signed on to it. China has the obligations under it. Canada, Japan and Russia have all said we're done with this. And Europe is still hanging on to it a little bit. And the developing world is really, really wants to see it go forward, but that's not really looking like that's going to happen.
So, the backup is what will it do you look like after Kyoto, and can we find something that will do the job?
CORNISH: And to go back to something you said earlier, Richard. You mentioned money. What's the issue there?
HARRIS: Well, the issue is how the developed world, the rich nations of the world are going to help the developing world. And at a similar meeting last year in Cancun, negotiators agreed to set up something called the Green Climate Fund which would ultimately funnel about $100 billion a year; taking it from the wealthy nations to poor ones to help them adapt to climate change and to develop cleaner sources of energy.
Of course, the details of that fund are very contentious. They've been arguing over language for a whole year and they don't really have an agreement yet, except in principle, that that fund should exist. So, those issues are being hashed out here, and that's of obviously of great concern.
By the way, it's not just government aid money were talking about. It would also be money from private industry, as well. So, $100 billion here is a lot of money but we're not talking about foreign aid here.
CORNISH: Richard, given what you've said about the various degrees of commitment that different nations have to this issue, how should people measure success from a meeting like the one in Durban?
HARRIS: Well, I guess success, in some cases, is the avoidance of utter catastrophe, which is actually a potential outcome of this meeting. But let's start from the most optimistic scenario, that people who really want to see new promises for action, new sort of targets for emissions cuts before 2020. They're still holding on some hope although they will almost certainly be disappointed.
The U.S. officials have said the goals were set in Copenhagen and ratified in Cancun are good enough to get us to 2020 and they're not interested in notching those up at all. So that's probably not going to see major motion. But the question is maybe there could be some framework, some idea of what a treaty would look like post-2020.
CORNISH: And lastly, Richard, the climate talks switch cities every year. I would think it gives it a different flavor. So what's the atmosphere like in Durban?
HARRIS: It is summer here. It's kind of warm and rainy, and people are wearing short sleeves. It gives it kind of a casual feel. Walking around, people are still pretty casual about not only in clothing, but in attitude about how things are going so far. And they know that, you know, the tough work really lies ahead. The suits will go on, but ties will get tightened, et cetera.
CORNISH: NPR's Richard Harris at the United Nations climate talks in Durban, South Africa.
Richard, thanks so much.
HARRIS: Sure.
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