tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45621713289706777062024-03-18T20:15:17.907-07:00Joz Hanks GalleriesAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02585801279638427560noreply@blogger.comBlogger44125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562171328970677706.post-28035357459632825372015-09-22T22:22:00.004-07:002015-09-22T22:22:53.295-07:0016 pyramids discovered in ancient cemetery<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://a57.foxnews.com/global.fncstatic.com/static/managed/img/fn2/feeds/LiveScience/876/493/pyramid-sudan.jpg?ve=1&tl=1" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://a57.foxnews.com/global.fncstatic.com/static/managed/img/fn2/feeds/LiveScience/876/493/pyramid-sudan.jpg?ve=1&tl=1" height="180" width="320" /></a></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The remains of 16 pyramids with tombs underneath have been discovered in a cemetery near the ancient town of Gematon in Sudan. </span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">They date back around 2,000 years, to a time when a kingdom called "<a href="http://www.livescience.com/25944-ancient-carving-african-princess.html" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s ease-in-out; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Kush</a>" flourished in Sudan. <a href="http://www.livescience.com/26903-35-ancient-pyramids-sudan.html" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s ease-in-out; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Pyramid building was popular</a> among the Kushites. They built them until their kingdom collapsed in the fourth century AD.</span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Derek Welsby, a curator at the British Museum in London, and his team have been excavating at Gematon since 1998, uncovering the 16 pyramids, among many other finds, in that time. "So far, we've excavated six made out of stone and 10 made out of mud brick," Welsby said. </span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The largest pyramid found at Gematon was about 35 feet long on each side and would have risen around 43 feet off the ground. [<a href="http://www.livescience.com/26900-ancient-pyramids-sudan.html" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s ease-in-out; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">See Photos of 2,000-Year-Old Pyramids Discovered at Another Site in Sudan</a>]</span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Wealthy and powerful individuals built some of the pyramids, while people of more modest means built the others, Welsby said. "They're not just the upper-elite burials," he said.</span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In fact, not all the tombs in the cemetery have pyramids: Some are buried beneath simple rectangular structures called "mastaba," whereas others are topped with piles of rocks called "tumuli." Meanwhile, other tombs have no surviving burial markers at all.</span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In one tomb, archaeologists discovered an offering table made of tin-bronze. Carved into the tableis a scene showing a prince or priest offering incense and libations to <a href="http://www.livescience.com/25738-abydos.html" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s ease-in-out; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">the god Osiris</a>, the ruler of the underworld. Behind Osiris is the goddess Isis, who is also shown pouring libations to Osiris.</span></div>
<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 1.10000002384186px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Though Osiris and Isis originated in Egypt, they were also venerated in Kush as well as other parts of the ancient world. The offering table "is a royal object," Welsby said. The person buried with this table "must have been someone very senior in the royal family."</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02585801279638427560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562171328970677706.post-46867710763560724852015-09-21T22:24:00.000-07:002015-09-22T22:24:26.906-07:00States move to ban aborted fetal tissue from medical research<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://a57.foxnews.com/global.fncstatic.com/static/managed/img/fn2/video/612/344/091615_fisher_plannedparenthood_640.jpg?ve=1&tl=1" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://a57.foxnews.com/global.fncstatic.com/static/managed/img/fn2/video/612/344/091615_fisher_plannedparenthood_640.jpg?ve=1&tl=1" height="179" width="320" /></a></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Aggressive state efforts to ban the use of fetal tissue in research is alarming some scientists who say such measures will set back efforts to cure the world’s deadliest diseases, including cancer, diabetes and Alzheimer’s.</span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But lawmakers in states like California and Wisconsin, which are deliberating whether to make their state laws even tougher than federal restrictions, say ending the practice of harvesting organs from aborted fetuses is a moral and ethical imperative.</span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">They say the summer release of nine undercover videos featuring Planned Parenthood representatives and others talking candidly about obtaining and transferring fetal body parts to laboratories has sparked outrage among their constituencies, and has “pulled back the curtain” on what they say is a gruesome business.</span></div>
<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 1.10000002384186px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“There’s a lot of outrage and I think certainly a lot of strong feelings (in the General Assembly) similar to what we are hearing from our constituencies. They want this to stop and the videos are certainly what’s forcing that,” said Wisconsin Republican State Senator Scott Fitzgerald, who is also the majority leader.</span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He is helping to shepherd <a href="http://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2015/related/proposals/ab305/" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.2s linear; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s linear; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">a bill </a>through the Republican-dominated legislature that would not only prohibit the sale of fetal body parts – which is already banned under federal law – but would also demand that “no person may knowingly and for valuable consideration acquire, receive, or otherwise transfer a fetal body part.”</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02585801279638427560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562171328970677706.post-30554712724087736782015-09-19T22:25:00.000-07:002015-09-22T22:25:31.600-07:00Hull of Confederate sub, first in history to sink enemy warship, revealed<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://a57.foxnews.com/global.fncstatic.com/static/managed/876/493/confderate%20sub.jpg?ve=1&tl=1" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://a57.foxnews.com/global.fncstatic.com/static/managed/876/493/confderate%20sub.jpg?ve=1&tl=1" height="180" width="320" /></a></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">After a year of painstaking work, scientists using small chisels and hand tools have removed encrusted sand, sediment and rust from the outside of the hand-cranked Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley.</span></div>
<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 1.10000002384186px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Now, the outside appears much as it did when the Hunley and its eight-man crew rammed a spar with a powder charge into the USS Housatonic and sank the Union blockade ship off South Carolina in 1864.</span></div>
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<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 1.10000002384186px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Cleaning the hull showed some dents on both sides of the submarine. But scientists say it's not clear when the dents occurred. The Hunley sank twice before it went on its 1864 mission, though it also could have been dented at the time of the Housatonic attack or later when the sub sat for decades on the ocean floor off Charleston. "If there was a smoking gun, we would have seen it a long time ago," said Johanna Rivera-Diaz, a conservator with the Hunley project.</span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">...BUT MORE CLUES</span></div>
<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 1.10000002384186px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The most significant find from cleaning the hull is an indication that a wooden boom at the front of the Hunley that supported the spar with the powder charge was damaged in the attack. It appeared as if the boom had been pushed back into the sub. That would be consistent with the boom striking a vessel, said Michael Scafuri, an archaeologist with the project.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02585801279638427560noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562171328970677706.post-22303771248780228422015-09-18T22:26:00.000-07:002015-09-22T22:26:36.246-07:00Medieval skeleton discovered in tree suffered violent death, experts say<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://a57.foxnews.com/global.fncstatic.com/static/managed/876/493/SligoTree.jpg?ve=1&tl=1" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://a57.foxnews.com/global.fncstatic.com/static/managed/876/493/SligoTree.jpg?ve=1&tl=1" height="180" width="320" /></a></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Archaeologists in Ireland have unearthed startling details about the strange medieval skeleton found in the roots of a 215 year-old tree.</span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Related:</b> <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/science/2015/09/10/mass-grave-new-human-relative-discovered-in-south-africa-claim-scientists/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s ease-in-out; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Mass grave of new human relative discovered in South Africa, claim scientists</a></span></div>
<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 1.10000002384186px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“He had been killed violently,” Marion Dowd, director of Sligo-Leitrim Archaeological Services, told FoxNews.com. “We have stab wounds in the upper chest and they were inflicted by a knife – we also have a stab wound in the left hand, which suggests that he was trying to defend himself.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“We don’t know if he was killed in a battle or if this was a personal dispute,” said Dowd, noting that the body was originally buried in a Christian fashion with its head pointing to the west. “His family or community must have buried him,” she added.</span></div>
<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 1.10000002384186px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Related: </b><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/science/2015/09/09/excavation-rome-home-shows-ancient-city-bigger-than-thought/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s ease-in-out; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Excavation of Rome home shows ancient city bigger than thought</a></span></div>
<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 1.10000002384186px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Another aspect of the excavation is unusual – the young man’s height. “He’s 5-foot-10,” said Dowd. “For early medieval society that’s pretty tall.”</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02585801279638427560noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562171328970677706.post-58214656204297851032015-09-16T22:27:00.000-07:002015-09-22T22:28:09.668-07:00Paleolithic hunter-gatherers loved oatmeal too<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 1.10000002384186px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 1.10000002384186px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">An ancient grinding stone found in the Grotta Paglicci, Apulia, in southern Italy, has <a href="http://www.archaeology.org/news/3672-150908-pestle-ground-oats" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s ease-in-out; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">hit the news</a> after scientists discovered that some of the debris on the stone turns out to be none other than oatmeal. The stone harkens back to the Gravettian era, a late Paleolithic culture, known for its tool making. It was recovered in the 1950s, but it wasn’t until recently that Marta Mariotti Lippi and team at the <a href="http://www.unifi.it/not-5243-scoperta-la-farina-piu-antica-del-mondo-da-gruppo-di-ricerca-guidato-da-unifi.html?newlang=ita" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s ease-in-out; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">University of Florence</a> in Italy studied the debris and found the oat fragments.</span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Related:</b> <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/science/2015/09/10/mass-grave-new-human-relative-discovered-in-south-africa-claim-scientists/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s ease-in-out; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Mass grave of new human relative discovered in South Africa, claim scientists</a></span></div>
<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 1.10000002384186px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The team determined that the Gravettian people heated the grains before grinding them with the stone in order to preserve and prep them for processing. The resulting powder was then made into bread and oatmeal.</span></div>
<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 1.10000002384186px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Grotta Paglicci, Apulia served as home to ancient hunter-gatherer cultures anywhere from 34,000-32,000 years ago, and has produced artifacts that include mural paintings with animals and etchings on bones. As for the stone, Lippi says the team intends to continue studying the debris to find out what else prehistoric cultures dined on.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02585801279638427560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562171328970677706.post-67899820619414388042015-09-14T22:30:00.000-07:002015-09-22T22:31:01.184-07:00New book claims Nazi soldiers were high on crystal meth<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://a57.foxnews.com/global.fncstatic.com/static/managed/876/493/CrystalMeth.jpg?ve=1&tl=1" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://a57.foxnews.com/global.fncstatic.com/static/managed/876/493/CrystalMeth.jpg?ve=1&tl=1" height="180" width="320" /></a></div>
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<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 1.10000002384186px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">When a friend mentioned Nazi soldiers used drugs, Ohler began scouring US and German archives and uncovered some surprises, described in his new book<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Der Totale Rausch</em> (<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Total Rush</em>), per <a href="http://www.dw.com/en/a-fresh-light-on-the-nazis-wartime-drug-addiction/a-18703678" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s ease-in-out; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Deutsche Welle</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">First, notes from Hitler's personal physician describe him receiving 800 injections of animal hormones and the opiate Eukodal, which Ohler calls "a pharmaceutical cousin of heroin," over 1,349 days, reports the <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/hitlers-allconquering-stormtroopers-felt-invincible-because-of-crystal-methstyle-drug-pervitin-10499087.html" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s ease-in-out; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Independent</a></em>.</span></div>
<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 1.10000002384186px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But Ohler also uncovered evidence that Nazi soldiers were on drugs during major offenses. Though the Nazis condemned cocaine, opium, and morphine as "Jewish," Nazi chemist Fritz Hauschild developed a new drug, Pervitin, which was basically crystal meth in a pill, Ohler says.</span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It wasn't some secret operation: Pervitin was openly available in Germany in 1937 and used as a kind of medicine to make people feel alert. It was even put in chocolates so housewives could take part in the high.</span></div>
<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 1.10000002384186px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02585801279638427560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562171328970677706.post-2181785458882066992015-09-14T22:29:00.000-07:002015-09-22T22:30:03.203-07:00CIA ship at center of 'strangest covert operation' to meet its end<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 1.10000002384186px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">After the Soviet Union failed to find one of its nuclear submarines that sank 1,500 miles northwest of Hawaii in 1968, the CIA swooped in, hoping to recover both the sub's nuclear missiles and its cryptography gear, according to <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/04/transocean-cia-coldwar-idUSL5N1194N120150904" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s ease-in-out; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Reuters</a>.</span></div>
<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 1.10000002384186px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Under the code name Project Azorian, the CIA schemed to raise the 14 million-pound sub three miles to the surface—an undertaking considered impossible. "I think given a better background in marine engineering, we likely would not have tried," says the retired CIA employee who finally revealed the long-officially-secret story in 2012.</span></div>
<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 1.10000002384186px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The ship that the CIA came up with—and what is now being scrapped: the Hughes Glomar Explorer. The ship was unique to say the least: 619 feet long and too wide to fit in the Panama Canal, it featured massive hydraulics, ball bearings the size of bowling balls, and one huge claw with which to grab the sub wreck.</span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The CIA was able to cover up the construction of the ship for four years by convincing the world Howard Hughes was building it to mine manganese nodules from the ocean floor.</span></div>
<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 1.10000002384186px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Project Azorian was modestly successful, with the Hughes Glomar only raising the bow of the Soviet sub. The CIA's infamous "Glomar Response" ("we can neither confirm nor deny...") has its origins in the agency's attempt to keep the project secret even as details leaked.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02585801279638427560noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562171328970677706.post-998185395144390882015-09-13T22:34:00.000-07:002015-09-22T22:35:05.998-07:00NASA releases dramatic new Pluto images<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Thanks to favorable backlighting and high resolution, an <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/feature/pluto-wows-in-spectacular-new-backlit-panorama/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s ease-in-out; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">image </a>taken by New Horizons' Ralph/Multispectral Visual Imaging Camera (MVIC) also reveals new details of hazes throughout Pluto’s nitrogen atmosphere. The image shows more than a dozen thin haze layers extending from near the ground to at least 60 miles above the dwarf planet's surface, according to NASA. </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02585801279638427560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562171328970677706.post-3374325295277743512015-09-12T22:37:00.000-07:002015-09-22T22:37:51.947-07:00Amateur paleontologist unearths rare fossil of fish in Arizona<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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An amateur paleontologist may have made the discovery of the summer last month when she found a jaw bone belonging to a long-snouted fish known to exist more than 220 million years ago.</div>
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Stephanie Leco was part of the first dig for citizens held last month at at Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park. The park routinely turns up fossils from the age of the dinosaurs and has vast expanses of rainbow-colored desert.</div>
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The fossil is about the same size of a pinky fingernail. It was unearthed from the site of what was a lake or pond in the Late Triassic period, when the fish were thought to be extinct in North America. Scientists knew closely related fish were present in the world in the Early Triassic period, about 10 million years earlier, but the fossils were found only in China in the Late Triassic, said park paleontologist Bill Parker.</div>
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"People who actually study this group of fish might start setting their sights in our direction now," he said.</div>
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Leco was sifting through loose dirt on a barren hillside using her background in art to differentiate colors, patterns and textures among bones, rocks and charcoal when she targeted an area looking for smaller objects. She already had several small teeth in her collection and was marveling at the tibia of a plant lizard that another digger found before coming across the jaw bone. Not exactly sure what it was, she handed the fossil over to Matt Smith, the park’s lead fossil preparer, and asked what it was.</div>
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"I don't know, that's why it's cool," he responded.</div>
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The two wrapped the bone, placed it in a tin and took it to the lab, looking at it more closely under a microscope, she said. The park later emailed her to say it was a fish closely related to the genus Saurichthys.</div>
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"Okay, it wasn't a T-Rex," Leco, a Phoenix resident, wrote in an email to The Associated Press. "But, honestly, I feel like this is much cooler!"</div>
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The 26-year-old said she’s since developed an even deeper fascination with paleontology and bought a couple of books on the Triassic period so that she can speak with authority about her find. The period, which started about 250 million years ago and lasted 50 million years, followed the largest extinction of life on Earth when the land mass was a single continent and had the first dinosaurs.</div>
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The full jaw of the fish would be about three to four times longer than the fossil Leco discovered, Parker said. He said other fossils of the fish might also be found on the East Coast and on the Colorado Plateau where similar rock is exposed.</div>
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Ben Kligman, a senior at the University of California, Berkley, has been studying the pond site preserved in a six-inch layer of rock. He plans to return to Petrified Forest next summer to look for a full fossil of the fish to determine whether or not it's a new species. What he didn't know before Leco found the jaw bone is that he already had smaller pieces of the fish that he couldn't identify as such, he said.</div>
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"Although it's probably a new species, we can't say that it is yet because we don't have enough specimens," Kligman said.</div>
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Other citizens participating in the August digs found the vertebrae of a long-necked lizard first uncovered in the park last year and the teeth of a large carnivorous reptile, both considered rare in the park's fossil record. Their names will accompany the collections at the park, which will use them to reconstruct the habitat of the pond and get a better idea of where the animals fell in the food chain, Parker said.</div>
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"Anytime we can fill in gaps in the fossil record, it's really important," he said. "People who don't study Triassic fish may not be excited. The fact you can find new stuff is the real takeaway."</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02585801279638427560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562171328970677706.post-54568332198598521102015-09-12T22:36:00.000-07:002015-09-22T22:36:21.478-07:00Rare ancient sarcophagus discovered in Israel<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 1.10000002384186px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“One side of the sarcophagus lid is adorned with the carved image of a man leaning on his left arm,” explained Gabi Mazor, a retired archaeologist and expert on the classical periods, in an Israel Antiquities Authority press release. “He is wearing a short-sleeved shirt decorated with embroidery on the front. A tunic is wrapped around his waist. The figure’s eyes were apparently inlaid with precious stones that have disappeared and the hair is arranged in curls, in a typical Roman hairstyle.”</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02585801279638427560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562171328970677706.post-54447581702320054022015-09-12T22:31:00.000-07:002015-09-22T22:32:05.466-07:00Mass grave of new human relative discovered in South Africa, claim scientists<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02585801279638427560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562171328970677706.post-85819354821132407672015-09-11T22:39:00.000-07:002015-09-22T22:39:36.348-07:00European astronaut uses 'the Force' to control rover from space<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"He had never operated the rover before, but its controls turned out to be very intuitive," Schiele <a href="http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Engineering_Technology/Slam_dunk_for_Andreas_in_space_controlling_rover_on_ground" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s ease-in-out; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">said in the statement</a>. "Andreas took 45 minutes to reach the task board and then insert the pin on his first attempt, and less than 10 minutes on his follow-up attempt, showing a very steep learning curve."</span></div>
<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 1.10000002384186px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02585801279638427560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562171328970677706.post-91557239381393404632015-09-10T22:41:00.000-07:002015-09-22T22:42:56.540-07:00Elon Musk's answer to making Mars more like Earth? Just nuke it<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It hasn't even been a week since Stephen Colbert started hosting CBS' The Late Show, and already, he's getting his guests to make some pretty spectacular claims. Oprah may have watched Tom Cruise jump on a couch, but Colbert got Elon Musk to advance a decidedly gasp-worthy theory about how best to make Mars a more hospitable environment for human life. "The fast way is to <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites#/sites/hnewman/2015/09/10/stephen-colbert-calls-elon-musk-a-supervillain-proves-tech-titans-are-celebrities/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">drop nuclear weapons</a> over the poles," the Tesla, SpaceX, and PayPal founder told Colbert. To which the host responded, "You're a supervillain!"</span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Describing Mars as "<a href="http://fortune.com/2015/09/10/elon-musk-mars/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s ease-in-out; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">a fixer upper of a planet</a>," Musk noted that the main problem with our red neighbor is that it's too cold for inhabitation. But, he noted, it can be made to more closely resemble Earth if we just warm it up. "There's the fast way and the slow way," Musk said, with the slow way being the gradual release of greenhouse gasses, which are famous on Earth for causing global warming and climate change.</span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But the <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/science/2015/09/10/elon-musk-answer-to-making-mars-more-like-earth-just-nuke-it/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s ease-in-out; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">flashier, more exciting way</a> (and let's face it, the more Elon Musk way), is to drop nuclear bombs on the planet, because nothing screams warmth like thermonuclear weapons. Unfortunately, Musk didn't get to elaborate much further on how exactly this plan would pan out, but it's certainly a novel idea. And considering that his <a href="http://mashable.com/2015/06/25/spacex-video-rocket-landing/#9G586vF57qk2" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s ease-in-out; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">last few SpaceX rocket landings</a> have resulted in explosions of their own, maybe Musk can jumpstart this warming process by sending his spacecraft to Mars.</span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Of course, the viability of such a plan is probably a bit more questionable than say, bringing frozen <a href="http://www.aboutmyplanet.com/science-technology/now-were-there-terraforming-mars/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s ease-in-out; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">methane</a> to Mars from neighboring planets or moons, or better yet, <a href="http://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/6407/20150516/nasa-hopes-to-rely-on-algae-and-bacteria-for-oxygen-production-on-mars.htm" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s ease-in-out; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">bringing</a> cyanobacteria and algae that are capable of producing oxygen to the Red Planet. But then again, many of Musk's ideas have seemed outlandish at first blush, and he's only ever proved the haters wrong.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02585801279638427560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562171328970677706.post-42439987180552221022015-09-10T22:40:00.000-07:002015-09-22T22:40:34.677-07:00Space Station crosses Sun's face in spectacular new photo<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02585801279638427560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562171328970677706.post-63960474838835984172015-09-09T22:33:00.000-07:002015-09-22T22:33:38.373-07:00Excavation of Rome home shows ancient city bigger than thought<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02585801279638427560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562171328970677706.post-15027691649005819892015-09-08T23:01:00.000-07:002015-09-22T23:01:25.734-07:00Volcano zone reservoirs could hold huge amounts of gold and silver<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 1.10000002384186px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The heat is on for prospectors in what could be the next gold rush. According to a recent study in the journal <a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0375650515000929" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Geothermics</a>, a team of geologists has discovered a mother lode of gold and silver inside super-heated reservoirs within New Zealand’s Taupo Volcanic Zone. Extreme heat from the volcanoes’ magma plumes is heating water, producing acidic underground reservoirs and springs that in turn dissolve the surrounding rock. This then allows the embedded gold and silver to come loose and collect in the water. If successfully drilled, one well could yield as much as $2.7 million in gold a year.</span></div>
<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 1.10000002384186px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">According to lead study author Stuart Simmons, a research professor at the University of Utah’s Energy & Geoscience Institute, gold and silver depositing in hot springs and geothermal wells is nothing new. Apparently this was first discovered over 50 years ago, with New Zealand’s ‘Champagne Pool’ hot spring one of the only places in the world where tourists can actually see this phenomenon happen.</span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Related:</b> <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/science/2015/08/31/what-animal-world-would-look-like-if-humans-never-existed/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s ease-in-out; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">What the animal world would look like if humans never existed</a></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The road to this new discovery began 15 years ago, when Simmons and a colleague constructed a special device to lower down wells up to 1.8 miles deep, obtaining hot samples of thermal water to determine the concentration of precious minerals.</span></div>
<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 1.10000002384186px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“After about 5 years, we had some preliminary data on which to make assessments of the amounts of precious metals that might be available,” he recalled. Their work paid off, with the amounts of aqueous gold and silver found in the 18 reservoirs estimated to be tens of thousands of ounces of gold and hundreds of thousands of ounces or more of silver. Now, all they need to do is figure out a way to mine it, which is no easy task considering new equipment would have to be developed that could take the heat (the chloride-rich waters in the underground reservoirs can get as hot as 752 degrees Fahrenheit) and also ensure lasting production.</span></div>
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<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 1.10000002384186px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“It is not really practical to mine gold and silver in a traditional sense inside the geothermal areas,” Simmons said. “Hot boiling water would be encountered in shallow excavations and there would be considerable environmental impact to deal with.”</span></div>
<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 1.10000002384186px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He explained that there currently isn’t much interest in figuring out ways to mine the minerals since it would disrupt energy production, what with the wells being drilled for steam to power turbines and generate electricity. One solution that was proposed in the study was to mine the reservoirs in intervals after enough gold and silver had accumulated so as to make the disuse of the steam-field worthwhile.</span></div>
<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 1.10000002384186px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Related:</b> <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/science/2015/08/20/prehistoric-scarface-discovered/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s ease-in-out; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Prehistoric ‘Scarface’ discovered</a></span></div>
<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 1.10000002384186px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“The more practical thing to do is to attempt to extract the metals from the fluids as they flow through the [existing] surface pipe work,” he said. “The gold and silver are passively accumulating in the shallow parts of the wells and in surface pipe work, so it is not lost.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">So if the new tech is developed, who will reap the financial benefits? Not the researchers who made the discovery – they were in it strictly for the science, according to Simmons.</span></div>
<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 1.10000002384186px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“The team did the work mainly to get a better understanding of processes of gold and silver deposition in ancient hydrothermal systems that are no longer active but that are host to ore deposits,” he said. “There are many such deposits forming mines and prospects around the Pacific Rim (Japan, Philippines, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Mexico, and the western US). So the aim was to apply our understanding to new discoveries.”</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02585801279638427560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562171328970677706.post-46392322039492148462015-09-07T22:46:00.000-07:002015-09-22T22:46:47.676-07:00North America's tallest mountain gets new name - and height<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://a57.foxnews.com/global.fncstatic.com/static/managed/876/493/Denali.jpg?ve=1&tl=1" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://a57.foxnews.com/global.fncstatic.com/static/managed/876/493/Denali.jpg?ve=1&tl=1" height="180" width="320" /></a></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Denali, the Alaska mountain formerly known Mount McKinley, is now officially 10 feet shorter, measuring 20,310 feet at its highest point, the U.S. Geological Survey announced Wednesday.</span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The previous measurement of 20,320 feet stemmed from a 1953 survey that used the technology of the time, officials said. The new elevation is the result of data collected from the mountain by climbers in June using technology that didn't exist in the earlier survey, such as GPS instruments.</span></div>
<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 1.10000002384186px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The change is part of an ongoing USGS program to update elevations in Alaska and elsewhere. The agency has a program that uses radar to collect more elevations over large areas in Alaska, but the Denali survey was unusual because it involved actual ground measurements, said Kari Craun, director of the USGS National Geospatial Technical Operations Center.</span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"It's a very visible and important point for North America," she said.</span></div>
<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 1.10000002384186px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The climb to gather the data from Denali began June 15 and involved one climber from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and three climbers from the private survey company CompassData Inc., USGS spokesman Mark Newell said. During their 14 days on the mountain, the climbers pulled equipment and supplies on sleds.</span></div>
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<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 1.10000002384186px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The change comes just days after the Obama administration announced its decision to bestow the traditional Alaska Native name to the mountain on the eve of president's visit to Alaska this week. The change to Denali— an Athabascan word meaning "the high one" — replaces the name that honored the 25th president, William McKinley, who never set foot in Alaska.</span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"We think this revised elevation, with a more precise measurement, is a fitting tribute to the name Denali," Newell said.</span></div>
<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 1.10000002384186px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Known for its majestic views, the mountain is dotted with glaciers and covered at the top with snow year-round. Powerful winds make it difficult for the adventurous few who seek to climb it. Each year, about 1,200 climbers attempt to summit the mountain, with only about half actually succeeding.</span></div>
<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 1.10000002384186px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02585801279638427560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562171328970677706.post-40390480834116548442015-09-07T22:45:00.000-07:002015-09-22T22:45:35.541-07:00Step inside Crew Dragon: SpaceX reveals interior of crewed space capsule<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"Dragon made history in 2012 when it became the first commercial [uncrewed] spacecraft to deliver cargo to the space station," <a href="http://www.spacex.com/crew-dragon" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s ease-in-out; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">SpaceX wrote on its website</a>. "But Dragon was also designed from the beginning to carry people, and today SpaceX is finalizing the necessary refinements to make that a reality." [<a href="http://www.space.com/30516-spacex-animates-crew-dragon-in-orbit-ride-video.html" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s ease-in-out; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Take a Video Tour Inside SpaceX's Crew Dragon Spacecraft</a>]</span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Images and video newly-released by the company show that the tan leather and mirrored metal surfaces previously unveiled as part of <a href="http://www.space.com/26060-spacex-dragon-v2-manned-spaceship-photos.html" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s ease-in-out; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Crew Dragon's debut in May 2014</a> have now been replaced by black bucket seats and stark white walls.</span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"Crew Dragon was designed to be an enjoyable ride. With four windows, passengers can take in views of Earth, the Moon, and the wider Solar System right from their seats, which are made from the highest-grade carbon fiber and Alcantara cloth," SpaceX described.</span></div>
<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 1.10000002384186px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"Crew Dragon's displays will provide real-time information on the state of the spacecraft's capabilities, anything from Dragon's position in space, to possible destinations, to the environment on board," SpaceX stated.</span></div>
<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 1.10000002384186px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Crew Dragon's environmental control and life support system will "provide a comfortable and safe environment" for its passengers, added the Hawthorne, California-based company. "During their trip, astronauts on board can set the spacecraft's interior temperature to between 65 and 80 degrees Fahrenheit."</span></div>
<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 1.10000002384186px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The fully autonomous Crew Dragon is one of two privately designed spacecraft NASA has contracted to begin flying its astronauts to the space station beginning in 2017. The other, <a href="http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-090415a-boeing-cst100-starliner-c3pf.html" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.6s ease-in-out; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.6s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Boeing's CST-100 Starliner</a>, is also equipped with a primarily black and white cabin, punctuated by the glow of "Boeing Sky Interior" blue LED lighting, as the aerospace company has deployed on its passenger jetliners.</span></div>
<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 1.10000002384186px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02585801279638427560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562171328970677706.post-63563440928288572592015-09-06T22:49:00.000-07:002015-09-22T22:50:12.197-07:00Closure on K2: Video prompts Texas woman's journey to Pakistan slope to find bodies of father, brother<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 1.10000002384186px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02585801279638427560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562171328970677706.post-82965916266884820542015-09-06T22:48:00.000-07:002015-09-22T22:48:44.887-07:00This photo of Saturn's moon Dione crossing the planet is simply jaw-dropping<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://a57.foxnews.com/global.fncstatic.com/static/managed/img/fn2/feeds/Space.com/876/493/dione-transit-saturn.jpg?ve=1&tl=1" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://a57.foxnews.com/global.fncstatic.com/static/managed/img/fn2/feeds/Space.com/876/493/dione-transit-saturn.jpg?ve=1&tl=1" height="180" width="320" /></a></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The photo, which Cassini took on May 21, shows the moon Dione crossing Saturn's disk. Careful study of such "transits" can help astronomers better understand the orbits of Dione and other moons in the solar system, NASA officials said.</span></div>
<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 1.10000002384186px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Furthermore, NASA's Kepler space telescope and some other instruments hunt for exoplanets by looking for tiny dips in a star's brightness caused by transiting alien worlds. Studying the light coming from such extrasolar systems can also reveal details about the composition of these exoplanets' atmospheres.</span></div>
<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 1.10000002384186px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">At 696 miles in diameter, Dione is the fourth-largest of Saturn's sixty-odd moons; only Titan, Rhea and Iapetus are bigger. Parts of Dione are heavily cratered, and the satellite's trailing side features mysterious ice cliffs and fractures that run for tens or hundreds of kilometers. Cassini has also detected a wispy oxygen atmosphere surrounding the frigid moon.</span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Cassini snapped the new photo, which was released Aug. 31, when the probe was about 1.4 million miles from Saturn. The image's resolution is 9 miles per pixel.</span></div>
<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 1.10000002384186px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But Cassini has gotten much closer looks at Dione, thanks to a handful of flybys over the years. During the most recent one, which occurred Aug. 17, the spacecraft zoomed within just 295 miles of the moon's surface, returning a set of amazing images.</span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Aug. 17 maneuver was the last scheduled up-close look at Dione, however; no more close flybys are planned before Cassini ends its mission with an intentional death dive into Saturn's thick atmosphere in September 2017.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02585801279638427560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562171328970677706.post-15662433549107245082015-09-05T23:11:00.000-07:002015-09-22T23:14:22.766-07:00Ants are safer, more effective than pesticides, study says<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://a57.foxnews.com/global.fncstatic.com/static/managed/876/493/antmyre1.jpg?ve=1&tl=1" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://a57.foxnews.com/global.fncstatic.com/static/managed/876/493/antmyre1.jpg?ve=1&tl=1" height="180" width="320" /></a></div>
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<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 1.10000002384186px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">There’s a new ant–agonist on the pesticide market. According to <a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2664.12496/full" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">a review</a>published in the Journal of Applied Ecology, trees protected by weaver ants have less pests, less plant damage, and show an increased yield when compared to trees sprayed with pesticides. The small, red tree dwellers are also cheaper to use and better for the environment.</span></div>
<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 1.10000002384186px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">What makes the weaver ants so effective is their ability to quickly respond and attack larger intruders. They’re categorized as a “superorganism,” which means that the colony functions like one organism, with individual ants acting as its cells and moving around independently. When an intruder enters their environment, the ants coordinate attacks via pheromones before taking the insect back to their nests of woven leaves to feed the colony. With the crops hanging so close to the nests, they fall under the ants’ protection.</span></div>
<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 1.10000002384186px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">To put together his review, Aarhus University bioscience professor Joachim Offenberg pored over approximately 70 recent scientific studies on the use of ants as pest control on nine different crops against various pests in Africa, Australia, and Southeast Asia. One three–year Australian study revealed a 49 percent higher cashew yield in ant–protected trees versus those sprayed with pesticide. Not only that, but the cashews were of a significantly higher quality. Likewise, mango trees protected by ants produced a better quality crop. This, coupled with the ants being cheaper than pesticide, resulted in a 73 percent higher net income.</span></div>
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<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 1.10000002384186px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02585801279638427560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562171328970677706.post-43498111087446638072015-07-31T23:23:00.000-07:002015-07-31T23:23:08.757-07:00Federal bankers: No account for Colo. cannabis credit union<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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DENVER – A Colorado-based credit union created to serve the country’s fast-growing legal marijuana industry sued banking regulators on Thursday after being denied access to the nation’s electronic banking system.</div>
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The Fourth Corner Credit Union won organizing approval from Colorado regulators in November, and organizers quickly asked the<culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Federal Reserve System" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 165, 60) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" title="">Federal Reserve</culink> in Kansas City in grant it a master account number, allowing it to make electronic funds transfers like any other bank or credit union. The Federal Reserve in Kansas City this month rejected that request because the <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/National Credit Union Administration" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 165, 60) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" title="">National Credit Union Administration</culink> refused to grant deposit insurance to Fourth Corner. The NCUA is an independent federal agency that charters and supervises credit unions.</div>
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The Fourth Corner on Thursday sued both the Federal Reserve in Kansas City and the NCUA, asking a federal judge to overturn their decisions.</div>
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The conflict highlights a growing concern for state-level regulators who have seen voters repeatedly approve legal recreational and medical marijuana across the country. Fourth Corner managers say the banking system needs to reflect reality.</div>
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"The majority of (marijuana related businesses) are forced to operate in cash only, and to suffer the high cost of handling and safeguarding this cash. The public is at risk in having hundreds of millions of dollars of cash flowing about the streets of Colorado," Fourth Corner wrote in its dual lawsuits. "The ‘seed-to-sale’ state and municipal regulation of cannabis works – until the point of sale when a sale generates cash."</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02585801279638427560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562171328970677706.post-84971636397701675112015-07-30T23:25:00.000-07:002015-07-31T23:25:52.261-07:00Stocks down for the day, but benchmarks post July gains<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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U.S. stocks, which went on a wild ride this month due to global crises in Greece and China, fell slightly Friday, but Wall Street closed out a volatile July with monthly gains.</div>
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Wall Street was confronted with a trio of risks this month, ranging from the near collapse of Greece's banking system and possible exit from the eurozone before sealing an 11th hour deal with creditors to what amounts to a crash in mainland China stocks from June peaks.</div>
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The <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Dow Jones Industrial Average" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 165, 60) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" title="">Dow Jones industrial average</culink> ended down 0.3% — a 56-point loss — to 17,689.86 and the <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/S&P 500" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 165, 60) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" title="">Standard & Poor's 500</culink> index dropped 0.2% to 2103.84. The Nasdaq composite index fell fractionally to 5128.28.</div>
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How benchmarks fared for the month:</div>
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■ Nasdaq: Up 2.8%<br />■ S&P 500: 2%<br />■ Dow: Up 0.4%</div>
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In economic news, a reading on Chicago manufacturing, dubbed Chicago PMI, topped economists' expectations and hit its highest level since January.</div>
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The month's biggest loser was the Shanghai composite index, which tumbled 14.3% and which has lost roughly a third of its value since its June 12 high. Chinese stocks closed out July on a losing note, falling 1.1%. Elsewhere in Asia, the action was more positive with stocks in <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Hong Kong" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 165, 60) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" title="">Hong Kong</culink> rising 0.6% and the Nikkei 225 index in Japan edging up 0.3%.</div>
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The earnings season has been solid. Profit growth is now on track for a 0.9% gain, after projections back on July 1 called for a contraction of 3%. Nearly three out of four (72%) of the 352 companies in the S&P 500 that have reported results have topped expectations, better than the 63% long-term average.</div>
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Not unexpectedly, oil giants <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/ExxonMobil" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 165, 60) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" title="">Exxon-Mobil</culink> (XOM) and Chevron (CSX) reported profit results that fell shy of Wall Street estimates, dragging both stocks down nearly 5% in early trading. Oil, of course, is in a bear market, with the price of a barrel of U.S.-based crude down more than 50% from last summer's highs.</div>
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Earlier Friday, an official from the Middle-East cartel OPEC reiterated that it would not cut its daily supply of oil production, despite an oil glut around the globe.</div>
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West Texas Intermediate crude was down about 3% to $46.92 per barrel.</div>
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NEW YORK — Ride-hailing company Uber just completed a round of funding that values them at a whopping $51 billion — or more than four times the value of rental car companies Hertz and Avis combined.</div>
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The latest funding came from Microsoft and the investment arm of Indian media conglomerate Bennett Coleman & Co., according to the <em>Wall Street Journal</em>, citing anonymous sources. Uber raised close to $1 billion in the latest round, bringing its total funding to more than $5 billion, the WSJ reported.</div>
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Uber has 3.5 billion shares outstanding, according to documents filed with Delaware's Secretary of State, where it is incorporated.</div>
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"We filed to authorize this new funding more than two months ago" Uber said in an e-mailed statement. "We aren’t commenting on additional speculation."</div>
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Hertz is valued at $7.8 billion. <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Avis Budget Group" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(250, 102, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" title="">Avis Budget Group</culink>, which is also publicly traded, is valued at $4.6 billion.</div>
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Uber carries the loftiest start-up valuation in an already frothy tech economy, beating out room rental company Airbnb, which is valued at $25 billion, and <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Snapchat" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(250, 102, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" title="">Snapchat</culink> at roughly $15 billion.</div>
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Investors have been lured by the company's fast-paced growth. Uber, which was founded in San Francisco in 2009, is doing business in 58 countries across Europe, Asia and the Middle East. The company recently said it plans to invest $1 billion to expand in India.</div>
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Uber is not without risks, however, including challenges from workers over their status as independent contractors.</div>
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The company has long kept its expenses down by claiming that it's merely a technology company matching drivers with riders, not a car service company with vehicles to maintain. The saddles drivers with bulk of expenses such as maintenance, insurance, gas and the vehicles themselves.</div>
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Some employees have sued to gain employee status, a designation that could substantially increase the company's costs.</div>
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Uber has also faced opposition in cities like Paris, because the service matches passengers with drivers who don't have the proper licenses. In New York, some local politicians have expressed concern the impact of Uber's growth on already congested and polluted streets.</div>
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Last week a proposed cap on Uber and other for-hire vehicles in New York was put on ice after the start-up agreed to "not flood the streets" until questions about the impact of its growth on traffic can be determined.</div>
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Apple usually reserves September as the month where it drops the first details on the next iPhone. But it might not be the only gadget introduced during the tech giant's fall event.</div>
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<a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/johnpaczkowski/apple-will-debut-new-apple-tv-in-september#.cyLyNA3EP9" style="color: #1990e5; text-decoration: none;">According to Buzzfeed</a>, Apple plans on revealing a revamped version of the Apple TV set-top box. The report says it will feature a boost in storage, a faster processor, updated remote and operating system that supports voice commands from Siri.</div>
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The big question is whether Apple TV will only carry the standard subscription services like <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Netflix" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(250, 102, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" title="">Netflix</culink> and Hulu or include a broader streaming bundle that would feature network channels.</div>
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The announcement was reportedly planned for the summer during Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference. Instead, the tech giant unveiled the streaming music service Apple Music.</div>
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