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Andrew Reinbach: Fracking and El Rushbo

New York's war over fracking is lurching toward the state Court of Appeals, where it will languish for the best part of two years to little purpose because everyone involved expects the ball to be lobbed to the state Assembly for clarification after the decision is handed down.

Along the way, the entire thing has gotten so tangled in left/right politics, apocalyptic rhetoric, demonized opponents, shout-down meetings, and two sets of facts that it's almost impossible for the sides to talk to each other, or, for that matter, anyone who doesn't agree with them.

Want irony? The sides have swapped political turfs; the politically conservative industry and its supporters are standing for a strong central government, and the people they call a bunch of outsider, tree-hugging hippies want home rule -- local control and government devolution.

In a shocking development, things have gotten testy.

Thomas S. West, for instance, a genial and talented lawyer quarterbacking the industry's legal team, says "The people opposed to drilling will use any tool to their hand to win. They don't care about the ideological implications."

Replies Henry Cooper Jr,, a prominent anti-fracker: "I don't see why the oil and gas industry should not be subject to local control, like all other industries. I think fracking is too polluting, and too destructive of the countryside, to be a viable industry -- that's the nicest thing I can say about it."

You can't call the 78-year-old Cooper any sort of hippie, much less an outsider in upstate New York; his ancestor founded Cooperstown, N.Y.

By now, few people need be told what fracking means. But as a matter of form; fracking is industry slang for horizontal, slick water hydrofracturing, a method used to maximize production from an oil or gas well.

Fracking pumps millions of gallons of water, sand, and chemicals under high pressure into a horizontally-drilled well bore, which mixture fractures rock a mile or more under the surface and maximizes the amount of oil or gas that can be recovered from said well. Some of the chemicals used are highly toxic, and whether fracking is -- or can be -- done safely is a matter discussed at dagger points.

The rhetoric and politics surrounding fracking has steadily put the industry on the defensive; Matt Damon is set to star in an anti-fracking movie called The Promised Land, for instance -- proof, if any was needed, that the industry and its supporters are right when they concede they've lost the PR war.

This is because; say observers, they've consistently swung for the bleachers with claims that were just as consistently exploded by an opposition playing moneyball.

As events progressed, pro-drilling arguments that had always worked before -- that fracking was perfectly safe and had been practiced for years, that it was all about energy independence, or local jobs -- were either disproved or badly damaged by news of well blowouts, drilling-related contamination -- even fracking-related earthquakes in Ohio.

Pro-frackers have typically responded by either doubling down on issues, trying to minimize or cast doubt on bad news, turning it into a joke, or, eventually, getting angry in public meetings, interviews with journalists, and online comments like this one, made on the Letters to the Editor page of the April 4 edition of Otsego County's Daily Star:

Oh how awful. The Concerned Burlington Neighbors (aka concerned transplants) complain that their goals have been misrepresented. Well newsflash, they have been misrepresenting the effects of gas drilling for sometime now. Oh, and one other thing, the concerned neighbors also represented that Burlington was the last hold out to do anything to protect ourselves from those evil gas people. Well, obviously from some of the other posts that's not accurate either. I guess only the good concerned neighbors are allowed to voice an opinion on the issue.

To be fair, anti-fracking people can be just as shrill and aggressive at public meetings and conversation as their opponents, and some of their private opinions about fracking lean toward the apocalyptic when it comes to what fracking is, means, or will do. But in print, at least, their tone tends to be reasonable, and they've based their arguments on science and proven facts -- all rejected as lies by the other side.

This was largely by design, says Adrian Kuzminski, a retired philosophy professor who helped found, and serves as moderator of, an anti-fracking, pro-sustainability group and message board called Sustainable Otsego. In a supreme irony, Sustainable Otsego has even elected members to local government, including the County Board of Representatives -- something that would never have happened had the gas issue not arrived.

"I wanted to keep the rhetoric on a low flame," says Kuzminski. "I thought that the only way to win this was to convert the middle class, and we did that by avoiding name-calling, personalizing, and purity stuff."

That call by Kuzminski was probably a good idea, since name-calling is the best way to lose a public fight.

Full disclosure: I live in Otsego County and have helped write something for Concern Burlington Neighbors, which is active in my own town.

Just to add insult to injury for the pro-frackers: The U.S. market price for natural gas has collapsed to less than half the cost of drilling, killing any economic case for drilling and leaving the fracking ship on its beam ends. The market rule-of-thumb cost of drilling a well -- about $4.35 per thousand BTUs -- is more than twice the April 3, 2012 spot price of $1.87 per thousand BTUs. Since then the spot price has risen about $.12 cents, while futures prices have been running about $.20 cents higher than spot.

Fracking has even become an international cause c?l?bre. A March 2012 meeting of the Alternative Water Forum in Marseilles, France, for instance, adopted a platform that said "We affirm our determination, our categorical opposition against all extraction of shale gas and every use of hydraulic fracturing on our territories."

Quebec very recently declared a moratorium on fracking, pending further study about whether it can be done safely, and public debates have spread as far as Romania.

Added up, you can understand why the industry and its supporters feel they're on the defensive. Yet unless gas drilling is completely banned in New York, all that last really means is that when the market rights itself, the industry will have to re-lease the same lands on better terms for landowners, with much safer technology and stronger environmental regulation, than they were when the leasing boom began five years ago.

In New York, the fracking story has no shortage of ironies.

Chris Denton, for instance, an Elmira attorney who had the bright idea of building landowner coalitions he could represent, went around the state in the early days explaining to large audiences that the four-page leases so-called "land men" were laying on their kitchen tables for signature threw almost all the liabilities on the landowner's shoulders in return for tiny signing bonuses and unspecified royalties; if somebody broke their ankle on the drilling site, for instance, the landowner would get the bill.

This implied that drilling deals had hidden environmental and legal dangers that needed to be addressed and raised suspicions that the anti-fracking groups jumped on. Within a year, public opinion went from "drill here, drill now" to "safe drilling or no drilling."

And how about these apples? The first home rule law was passed in 2010 in Virgil, in Cortland County. But the push for home rule really took off in places drilling may never happen--near Ithaca and Cooperstown, where gas shale deposits are unpromising. Aside from lands near Lake Ontario, virtually no area with promising deposits -- along the Pennsylvania border, for instance -- is on the home rule bandwagon.

More to the point, comparatively few bans, moratoria, or even talk of such exist in most of the state. Twenty-two towns have banned gas drilling in New York, 66 have passed moratoria, and another 66 have groups working for one or the other out of 1,607 counties, cities, town and villages.

But because the notion could upend the whole enterprise, the idea really got the industry's attention. And they did something counterintuitive; small government types almost to a man, they turned for help to Albany and Washington.

Why?

"The industry has its relationships at the top of government, so it made sense for them to go top down," says Helen Slottje, who, together with her husband David, runs an Ithaca-based non-profit called The Community Environmental Defense Council, Inc. that's a prime mover for home rule. "The grass roots had the advantage of a body of law that tends to balance the books; that helped them push back."

The industry's legal position is that a paragraph in the state's oil and gas law trumps local zoning laws, and that not only do the facts of modern, commercial gas drilling make it impractical to have to deal with what they see would be a crazy quilt of local laws, but the highly technical nature of fracking makes it necessary for all regulation to be in the hands of government experts.

Unmentioned in that argument is the fact that local controls aren't needed where no drilling occurs. But the home rule idea really irks the conservative Republicans who make up a large percentage of energy professionals.

"There are a lot of people concerned with the disregard of individual property rights, and the individual resources that would propel that," says John Holko, secretary of the New York Chapter of the Independent Oil and Gas Association. "If three people on a five member town board can decide if you can develop your resources, what becomes of our liberty?"

Stuff and nonsense, says the home rule crowd; property rights aren't unconditional -- you can only do what you want with your land if you don't hurt anybody else's land. And in any event, home rule is a conservative argument -- governments receive their just powers from the consent of the governed, so it follows that local citizens who don't consent to something have the right to prevent it, and governments that deny the people that right exercise unjust powers.

Early on, local drilling supporters had routinely threatened town boards and their members with million-dollar lawsuits if they didn't allow drilling, or even if they wanted to study it, all the while complaining their opponents were lying. But observers say that in at least one of the suits now on appeal the industry picked a fight over the law so it could shift things to the courts, where it could use its money against poor town boards.

The industry's money may not win the day so easily, though; upstate people with deep pockets have stepped to the plate with their own money. These reportedly include Jane Forbes Clark, an heir to the Singer Sewing Machine fortune and owner of Cooperstown's Baseball Hall of Fame and at least 10,000 acres nearby. Ms. Clark's office issued a statement supporting the fracking opposition but didn't comment on the persistent rumor she helps finance it.

"It's safe to say that the industry was looking for a test case (over fracking in New York), and that Anschutz chose this issue to do that," says Kate Sinding, a senior attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council. "This is not about the money -- it's about establishing a precedent."

Sinding means billionaire Philip Anschutz, whose company, Anschutz Exploration Corp., paid what his lawyer Tom West says was $5.1 million for gas leases to 22,000 acres in the town of Dryden, near Ithaca. But Dryden, filled with people who worked at nearby Cornell, had banned heavy industry in 1968, and amended the law in 2011 to include gas drilling.

Anschutz sued Dryden last fall to force the issue, and lost this February. Another suit, in Middlefield, near Cooperstown, was also turned down in February. Both are being appealed and likely to be consolidated into one case. West pleaded the Dryden case and advises on the Middlefield case.

The plaintiff in Middlefield, Jennifer Huntington, is affable, gracious, and a modern, scientific diary farmer who milks 300 cows, presses her own bio-diesel fuel, and makes her own power with a methane generator. Unlike Anschutz, she runs a small business.

She concedes she'll probably never make any money with the gas lease she signed at her kitchen table in 2007 without consulting her lawyer -- if nothing else, the company she signed with is almost broke -- and says she's pursuing her lawsuit on the principle that landowners should be able to make a living with their land.

It's possible that she may not have known that Middlefield had likewise banned heavy industry -- in 1975 -- and amended it in 2011 to forbid gas drilling activity. In any event, she insists there was no such law when she signed.

That doesn't apply to a man like Anschutz, whose net worth is estimated at about $7 billion. He would have been very unlikely to have laid out $5.1 million before having his lawyers make sure he could get a return on his investment, and if his lawyers hadn't told him what Dryden's law said, they'd have been fired. He had to have known what he was doing.

Anschtz may have ideological motives; well-known on the extreme right, he's reportedly served on the board of the secretive Council for National Policy. The Council for National Policy is considered a sort of right wing central committee.

The fracking brawl is becoming a right wing cause with or without Anschutz; John Birch Society (JBS) literature was sitting at the sign-in table at a recent pro-fracking meeting in Oneonta, in Otsego County, and a man got up at the end to urge the attendees to "Read those brochures and learn what's really going on."

The brochures in question are about something called "Agenda 21," which Birchers say is a United Nations plot to end U.S. sovereignty, confiscate all private property, and give rocks human rights by imposing sustainability programs sponsored by the United Nations. The JBS itself didn't comment on its interest, if any, in fracking or in Agenda 21.

You could laugh at the notion the U.N. was trying to give human rights to rocks, but there really is an Agenda 21; it was adopted in 1992. The U.N.'s website says "Agenda 21 is a comprehensive plan of action (to support sustainability) to be taken globally, nationally and locally by organizations of the United Nations System, Governments, and Major Groups in every area in which human (activity) impacts on the environment."

The larger issue over fracking is very simple: Energy companies want to be free to drill for gas in New York, and the opposition wants to be free from drilling. Compared with that, all the hoo-hah over science, technology, and morality is beside the point, along with anti-fracker notions that the industry wants to turn rural New York into a factory floor, and industry ideas that their opponents want to turn everyone into a vegan.

But as usual once something is in the hands of the law, the questions that will decide matters are narrow. You can read the primary court papers here.

The main legal issue: Whether zoning is regulation -- that is, whether regulating how something is done is the same as regulating where something is done. Aside from the prospect of gas drilling in New York., at stake is 96 years of law and court decisions that say local governments can decide what happens inside their borders -- zoning.

At least connected to gas drilling, the issue is unclear. The nub of the arguments is that the New York Constitution and the state's Local Governments Statute say local government controls what happens within its borders, but that paragraph in the state's oil and gas law, commonly referred to as the supercession clause, says that local governments can't regulate the industry. The courts have so far ruled that how doesn't mean whether, but the industry says otherwise.

Time, as they say, will tell.

How the gas industry got itself in this mess has a lot in common with how Rush Limbaugh's sneers about Sandra Fluke's contraception may have cost the Republicans the November elections.

Both trapped themselves in tough spots by starting with rhetoric that collapsed under scrutiny. Both assumed they could say what they'd said a million times and life would go on. Both kicked over a hornet's nest, and attracted the wrong sort of attention from people uninterested in learning how to take a joke. And both decided to tough it out -- because there's a lot of pride and money on the table.

And both are victims of their own success. Natural gas prices are at a ten-year low because fracking promised to goose supplies so much, and make everybody so rich, that energy companies wound up flooding the market with supply -- with predictable results; if El Rushbo had been some guy doing drivetime radio in North Dakota, he'd have been fired instead of getting half the Republican Party mad at him.

For their part, environmentalists are positive they're fighting the good fight. And women, after all, are not widely known for yielding to their softer side if they feel they've been insulted; ask any husband or boyfriend. So neither is much interested in folding their tents, both figure they know who the enemy is, and as far as the environmentalists go, their opposite numbers feel the same way (being male, I don't think it's prudent for me to take this comparison much further).

As far as the gas guys and the rotund one go, they have only so much to say about their futures. Unless utilities start switching to gas generators -- and the Wall Street Journal says they won't -- many of the companies drilling for gas today will either vanish, or wind up owned by China. And if Republican women vote for Obama -- or not at all -- because they're mad at Limbaugh and the Republicans who defended him, El Rushbo's headed for a wonderful career in celebrity golf.

Don't touch that dial.

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Makeup for Photography

As a woman, wearing makeup is something you are likely used to, and that you most likely consider a necessary morning ritual before you start each day. This is something you do to improve your confidence, and something you do in order to attract members of the opposite sex (or to please those members that you have already attracted).

?However if you find yourself getting ready for photography then suddenly your makeup because even more important. On days where you know you are going to feature in lots of photos, or important photos, you need to give your makeup extra consideration. If you are going to be seeing a portrait photographer, or are having a wedding with a wedding photographer, then these are two such examples. Here we will look at how to do your makeup with your wedding photographer or portrait photographer in mind.

?First of all you need to make sure that your skin looks good.

This is highly important for any photograph, but particularly if you are using a wedding photographer or a portrait photographer who will have a highly powerful high definition camera that can otherwise pick up every last blemish and spot. In order to give yourself perfect porcelain type skin you then need to use a foundation that will cover your skin and make it appear smooth, as well as a concealer in order to hide one or two of the angrier and more difficult blemishes. If you want to get a little bit of a tan on the go then this can help further, or you can use a foundation that is a step lower than yours. A little blusher can help to bring color to your cheeks, but do keep this on the milder and more subtle side of things.

?Next you need to do your features. This means in other words your eyes and lips, and you need here to decide on which you want to stand out more. If you have heavy makeup on your eyes and bright lips then this is going to make you look like a clown ? which is just unfortunate. What you should do instead is to make just one area your main feature and make that up more heavily. You might for instance opt to go for smoky eyes ? using a dark eyeliner to outline them, and a heavier eyeshadow in order to make them look more sultry. In this case just a light lip gloss on your lips can be enough to make them look wet and kissable (particularly useful for your wedding where the wedding photographer is not the only person you are trying to please).

?Alternatively you might want to focus more on your lips in which case you are going to want to use a bright lipstick such as a red or a hot pink. This can make them look fuller and draw the eye to them and to make them look fuller still you should use a lip liner and draw around the outside of your lips.
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The drug simvastatin (Zocor?) ? which works by slowing cholesterol production ? also improves learning and memory in adult, but not aged Alzheimer's mode </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: Society for Neuroscience - Discipline: Neurosciencehttp://www.labspaces.net/118974/Cholesterol_drug_shows_benefit_in_animal_study_of_Alzheimer_s_disease Wed, 04 Apr 2012 13:00:01 -0500 <table> <tr><td> A guide to what data mining, how it works, and why it's important. </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: The Atlantic - Discipline: Internethttp://www.labspaces.net/118973/Everything_You_Wanted_to_Know_About_Data_Mining_but_Were_Afraid_to_Ask Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:11:36 -0500 <table> <tr><td> <img src="/images/news/42396_web.jpg" width="80" height="54.933333333333" border="0" /> </td><td> Epilepsy affects 50 million people worldwide, but in a third of these cases, medication cannot keep seizures from occurring. One solution is to shoot a short pulse of electricity to the brain to stamp out the seizure just as it begins to erupt. But brain implants designed to do this have run into a stubborn problem: too many false alarms, triggering unneeded treatment. To solve this, Johns Hopkin </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: Johns Hopkins University - Discipline: Neurosciencehttp://www.labspaces.net/118972/Early_warning_system_for_seizures_could_cut_false_alarms Wed, 04 Apr 2012 12:45:01 -0500 <table> <tr><td> Two of Adobe's products are unlikely survivors in a period of massive turmoil in the computer industry. </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: The Atlantic - Discipline: Internethttp://www.labspaces.net/118971/Flash_and_the_PDF__Computing_s_Last_Great_and_Now_Endangered_Monopolies Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:11:36 -0500 <table> <tr><td> <img src="/images/news/42395_web.jpg" width="80" height="68.266666666667" border="0" /> </td><td> The least expensive way for the Western U.S. to reduce greenhouse gas emissions enough to help prevent the worst consequences of global warming is to replace coal with renewable and other sources of energy that may include nuclear power, according to a new study by University of California, Berkeley, researchers. </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: University of California - Berkeley - Discipline: Energyhttp://www.labspaces.net/118970/Advanced_power_grid_research_finds_low_cost__low_carbon_future_in_West Wed, 04 Apr 2012 12:30:02 -0500 <table> <tr><td> Google has demoted its glorious research tool, yet another sign that projects without much revenue are endangered under Larry Page's reign. </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: The Atlantic - Discipline: Internethttp://www.labspaces.net/118969/___Services_Google_Thinks_Are_More_Important_Than_Google_Scholar Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:11:36 -0500 <table> <tr><td> <img src="/images/news/843473___code__.jpg" width="80" height="53.454545454545" border="0" /> </td><td> A current controversy raging in evolutionary biology is whether adaptation to new environments is the result of many genes, each of relatively small effect, or just a few genes of large effect. A new study published in Molecular Ecologystrongly supports the first "many-small" hypothesis. </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: McGill University - Discipline: Evolutionhttp://www.labspaces.net/118968/Darwin_in_the_genome Wed, 04 Apr 2012 12:15:01 -0500 <table> <tr><td> Intel sounds afraid of the future.?Speaking to PC World yesterday, Intel Product Manager Anand Kajshmanan and media spokesperson Alison Wesley set out in no uncertain terms what the Ultrabook means to Intel. </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: FastCompany - Discipline: Technologyhttp://www.labspaces.net/118967/PC_Deathwatch__In_Which_Intel_Begins_to_Sweat Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:11:36 -0500 <table> <tr><td> <img src="/images/news/1021854___atomic__.jpg" width="80" height="60.16" border="0" /> </td><td> The early days of our solar system might look quite different than previously thought, according to research at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory published in Science. The study used more sensitive instruments to find a different half-life for samarium, one of the isotopes used to chart the evolution of the solar system. </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: DOE/Argonne National Laboratory - Discipline: Chemistryhttp://www.labspaces.net/118966/New_isotope_measurement_could_alter_history_of_early_solar_system Wed, 04 Apr 2012 12:00:01 -0500 <table> <tr><td> These ticks have become the first organisms to be observed alive in a scanning electron microscope and survive the experience </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: New Scientist - Discipline: Evolutionhttp://www.labspaces.net/118965/World_s_toughest_bugs_survive_electron_beam_and_vacuum Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:11:36 -0500 <table> <tr><td> <img src="/images/news/42386_web.jpg" width="80" height="120" border="0" /> </td><td> Golfers looking to improve their putting may find an advantage in visualizing the hole as bigger, according to a new study from Purdue University. </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: Purdue University - Discipline: Psychologyhttp://www.labspaces.net/118964/Golfers_can_improve_their_putt_with_a_different_look Wed, 04 Apr 2012 11:45:01 -0500 <table> <tr><td> The flap over faster-than-light neutrinos will be the first of many </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: New Scientist - Discipline: Physicshttp://www.labspaces.net/118963/Physicists_must_get_used_to_the_limelight Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:11:36 -0500 <table> <tr><td> <img src="http://www.labspaces.net/images/news/rapamycin.jpg" width="80" height="81.066666666667" border="0" /> </td><td> The drug known as rapamycin is widely used by cancer and transplant patients, and there are hints that it might even help us put off old age and live longer. But, it also comes with a downside: rapamycin leads to diabetes in as many as 15 percent of the people who take it. </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: Cell Press - Discipline: Healthhttp://www.labspaces.net/118962/How_a_cancer_drug_leads_to_diabetes Wed, 04 Apr 2012 11:30:01 -0500 <table> <tr><td> A proposed change in US legislation would allow everyone to invest in start-ups </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: New Scientist - Discipline: Technologyhttp://www.labspaces.net/118961/Crowdfunding_successes_show_value_of_small_donations Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:11:36 -0500 <table> <tr><td> <img src="http://www.labspaces.net/images/news/Alpha-D-glucose-from-xtal-1979-3D-balls.jpg" width="80" height="86.666666666667" border="0" /> </td><td> New evidence points to a hormone that leaves muscles gobbling up sugar as if they can't get enough. That factor, which can be coaxed out of fat stem cells, could lead to a new treatment to lower blood sugar and improve metabolism, according to a report in the April issue of Cell Metabolism, a Cell Press publication. </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: Cell Press - Discipline: Molecular Biologyhttp://www.labspaces.net/118960/New_hormone_for_lowering_blood_sugar Wed, 04 Apr 2012 11:15:01 -0500 <table> <tr><td> Our devices may be too smart for their own good. You watch your TV. But in the near future, your TV may watch you. </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: Technology Review - Discipline: Technologyhttp://www.labspaces.net/118959/Is_Your_TV_Spying_on_You_ Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:11:36 -0500 <table> <tr><td> <img src="http://www.labspaces.net/images/news/8153_lores_hepatitis_HCV.jpg" width="80" height="97.066666666667" border="0" /> </td><td> A team led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute has found antibodies that can prevent infection from widely differing strains of hepatitis C virus (HCV) in cell culture and animal models. </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: Scripps Research Institute - Discipline: Immunologyhttp://www.labspaces.net/118958/Scientists_find_promising_vaccine_targets_on_hepatitis_C_virus Wed, 04 Apr 2012 11:00:02 -0500 <table> <tr><td> If the universe manufactured carbon so early in its history, then advanced ancient alien minds should be out there, somewhere. </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: Discovery Channel News - Discipline: Spacehttp://www.labspaces.net/118957/Could_Ancient_Aliens_Live_on_Methuselah_Planets_ Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:11:36 -0500 <table> <tr><td> <img src="http://www.labspaces.net/images/news/shutterstock_82159063.jpg" width="80" height="96" border="0" /> </td><td> Love it or leave it ? if only it were that simple. According to new research from Concordia University, the Universit? de Montr?al and HEC Montr?al, staying in an organization out of a sense of obligation or for lack of alternatives can lead to emotional exhaustion, a chronic state of physical and mental depletion resulting from continuous stress and excessive job demands. </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: Concordia University - Discipline: Psychologyhttp://www.labspaces.net/118956/People_who_feel_they_have_to_stick_with_an_employer_become_more_emotionally_exhausted Wed, 04 Apr 2012 10:45:01 -0500 <table> <tr><td> The frozen carcass of the juvenile animal, nicknamed "Yuka," shows signs of being cut up by ancient people. </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: Discovery Channel News - Discipline: Archaeologyhttp://www.labspaces.net/118955/Young_Mammoth_Likely_Butchered_by_Humans Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:11:36 -0500 <table> <tr><td> <img src="/images/news/PET-image.jpg" width="80" height="86.909090909091" border="0" /> </td><td> Children who grow up learning to speak two languages are better at switching between tasks than are children who learn to speak only one language, according to a study funded in part by the National Institutes of Health. However, the study also found that bilinguals are slower to acquire vocabulary than are monolinguals, because bilinguals must divide their time between two languages while monoli </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: NIH/National Institute of Child Health and Human Development - Discipline: Neurosciencehttp://www.labspaces.net/118954/Bilingual_children_switch_tasks_faster_than_speakers_of_a_single_language Wed, 04 Apr 2012 10:30:02 -0500 <table> <tr><td> An amazing dolphin beaching incident filmed on the coast of Brazil provides insight on how to rescue dolphins in distress. </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: Discovery Channel News - Discipline: Ecologyhttp://www.labspaces.net/118953/How_to_Rescue_Beached_Dolphins__Video Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:11:36 -0500 <table> <tr><td> <img src="/images/news/PCWmice1.jpg" width="80" height="38.933333333333" border="0" /> </td><td> High fat diets cause damage to blood vessels earlier than previously thought, and these structural and mechanical changes may be the first step in the development of high blood pressure. These findings in mice, by Marie Billaud and colleagues from the University of Virginia School of Medicine in the US, are published online in Springer's Journal of Cardiovascular Translational Research. </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: Springer - Discipline: Healthhttp://www.labspaces.net/118952/Mice_fed_a_high_fat_diet_show_signs_of_artery_damage_after_only___weeks Wed, 04 Apr 2012 10:15:01 -0500 <table> <tr><td> Eagle-eyed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson spotted an imperfection in James Cameron's blockbuster film </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: CBSNews - Discipline: Astronomyhttp://www.labspaces.net/118951/Stars_literally_overhauled_for_Titanic__D Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:11:36 -0500 <table> <tr><td> <img src="http://www.labspaces.net/images/news/shutterstock_86205961" width="80" height="89.6" border="0" /> </td><td> People who are excluded by others online, such as on Facebook, may feel just as bad as if they had been excluded in person, according to researchers at Penn State and Misericordia University. </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: Penn State - Discipline: Psychologyhttp://www.labspaces.net/118950/Being_ignored_online_or_in_person__it_s_still_exclusion Wed, 04 Apr 2012 10:00:01 -0500 <table> <tr><td> Synthetic legs have become a medium for self-expression, thanks to customization made possible by sophisticated technology. It's a bold melding of modern science and fashion statement.SAN FRANCISCO ? We can rebuild him. We have the technology. We can make him better than he was. Better ? stronger ? faster. </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: L.A. Times - Discipline: Healthhttp://www.labspaces.net/118949/Prosthetics_get_the_personal_touch Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:11:36 -0500 <table> <tr><td> <img src="http://www.labspaces.net/images/news/shutterstock_54875629.jpg" width="80" height="80" border="0" /> </td><td> Physicists have recently devised a new method for handling the effect of the interplay between vibrations and electrons on electronic transport. Their paper is about to be published in EPJ B?. This study, led by scientists from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, and the Centre for Computational Science and Engineering at the National University of Singapore, could have implications for quantum </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: Springer - Discipline: Physicshttp://www.labspaces.net/118948/Quantum_information_motion_control_is_now_improved Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:45:01 -0500 <table> <tr><td> Influenza studies debated in the wake of new recommendations from U.S. biosecurity panel </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: Science - Discipline: Science Politicshttp://www.labspaces.net/118947/Free_to_Speak__Kawaoka_Reveals_Flu_Details_While_Fouchier_Stays_Mum Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:11:36 -0500 <table> <tr><td> <img src="/images/news/42375_web.jpg" width="80" height="120" border="0" /> </td><td> The color and scent of flowers and their perception by pollinator insects are believed to have evolved in the course of mutual adaptation. However, an evolutionary biologist from the University of Zurich has now proved that this is not the case with the arum family at least, which evolved its scent analogously to the pre-existing scents of scarab beetles and thus adapted to the beetles unilaterall </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: University of Zurich - Discipline: Evolutionhttp://www.labspaces.net/118946/Plants_mimic_scent_of_pollinating_beetles Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:30:01 -0500 <table> <tr><td> Unique structures give mallards their wide variety of hues </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: Science - Discipline: Evolutionhttp://www.labspaces.net/118945/ScienceShot__Flashed_by_a_Duck Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:11:36 -0500 <table> <tr><td> <img src="/images/news/42373_web.jpg" width="80" height="59.733333333333" border="0" /> </td><td> Neutrophil granulocytes comprise important defences for the immune system. When pathogenic bacteria penetrate the body, they are the first on the scene to mobilise other immune cells via signal molecules, thereby containing the risk. To this end, they release serine proteases ? enzymes that cut up other proteins to activate signal molecules. </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - Discipline: Immunologyhttp://www.labspaces.net/118944/New_immune_defense_enzyme_discovered Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:15:05 -0500 <table> <tr><td> <img src="http://www.labspaces.net/images/news/800px-Kaposi_sarcoma_high_mag.jpg" width="80" height="53.333333333333" border="0" /> </td><td> Kaposi's sarcoma herpesvirus (KSHV) is a human tumor virus and an etiological agent for Kaposi's sarcoma and primary effusion lymphoma (PEL). PELs are aggressive lymphomas with reported median survival time shorter than six months after diagnosis. </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: University of Helsinki - Discipline: Cancerhttp://www.labspaces.net/118943/Viral_replication_impedes_the_efficacy_of_a_targeted_therapy_against_virus_induced_lymphomas Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:00:05 -0500 <table> <tr><td> There's a massive telescope on the drawing board that hasn't even started construction yet, but when it's finished in 2024, it'll generate more data in a single day than the entire Internet. The computing giant IBM is collaborating with ASTRON (the Netherlands Institute of Radio Astronomy) to develop the next-generation computer tech needed to handle the colossal amount of data captured by the Square Kilometer Array (SKA), </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: CNN - Discipline: Astronomyhttp://www.labspaces.net/118942/IBM_telescope_would_create_more_data_than_Internet_ Tue, 03 Apr 2012 08:48:59 -0500 <table> <tr><td> <img src="http://www.labspaces.net/images/news/1260787_hand_on_keyboard.jpg" width="80" height="53.333333333333" border="0" /> </td><td> The surveyed women spend an average of 81 minutes per day on Facebook, whereas men spend 64 minutes. Low educated groups and low income groups who spend more time on Facebook also report feeling less happy and less content with their lives. This relationship between time spent on Facebook and well-being is also salient for women, but not for men. These are some of the results of Sweden's largest F </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: University of Gothenburg - Discipline: Internethttp://www.labspaces.net/118941/A_survey_of_______Swedish_Facebook_users Tue, 03 Apr 2012 16:00:01 -0500 <table> <tr><td> Killer asteroids are a somewhat remote danger, but they are possible and can deal Earth what amounts to an extinction-level event. The dinosaurs didn't escape that fate, and it would be shame (to say the least) if we humans, with our larger brains and space programs, didn't fare better. But avoiding death by asteroid requires commitment, and some tough decisions we need to make now. </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: Wired - Discipline: Spacehttp://www.labspaces.net/118940/We_Can_Survive_Killer_Asteroids_____But_It_Won___t_Be_Easy Tue, 03 Apr 2012 08:48:59 -0500 <table> <tr><td> <img src="/images/news/Old_Bark_&_leaves_I_IMG_8671.jpg" width="80" height="53.333333333333" border="0" /> </td><td> New research from the University of Adelaide could help protect one of the world's most globally threatened tree species - the big leaf mahogany - from extinction. </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: University of Adelaide - Discipline: Ecologyhttp://www.labspaces.net/118939/Pollen_can_protect_mahogany_from_extinction Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:45:01 -0500 <table> <tr><td> Social networks and the app ecosystems that surround them may find themselves at odds over user privacy. </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: The Atlantic - Discipline: Technologyhttp://www.labspaces.net/118938/Deconstructing_the_Creepiness_of_the__Girls_Around_Me__App_and_What_Facebook_Could_Do_About_It Tue, 03 Apr 2012 08:48:59 -0500 <table> <tr><td> <img src="http://www.labspaces.net/images/news/868934_kids_fun_with_the_playground.jpg" width="80" height="106.66666666667" border="0" /> </td><td> The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that pediatric healthcare providers promote active healthy living by encouraging children to play outside as much as possible. Being outdoors correlates strongly with physical activity for children, which is important for preventing obesity in the preschool years and on through adulthood. A new study led by Pooja Tandon, MD, </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: Seattle Children's - Discipline: Healthhttp://www.labspaces.net/118937/Nearly_half_of_preschool_children_not_taken_outside_to_play_by_parents_on_a_daily_basis Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:30:01 -0500 <table> <tr><td> The happier you are, the better, right? Not necessarily. Studies show that there is a darker side to feeling good and that the pursuit of happiness can sometimes make you .?.?. well, less happy. Too much cheerfulness can make you gullible, selfish, less successful ? and that?s only the tip of the iceberg. </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: Washington Post - Discipline: Psychologyhttp://www.labspaces.net/118936/Too_much_happiness_can_make_you_unhappy__studies_show Tue, 03 Apr 2012 08:48:59 -0500 <table> <tr><td> <img src="http://www.labspaces.net/images/news/shutterstock_82159063.jpg" width="80" height="96" border="0" /> </td><td> Early life emotional trauma may stunt intellectual development, indicates the first long term study of its kind, published online in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: BMJ-British Medical Journal - Discipline: Psychologyhttp://www.labspaces.net/118935/Early_life_emotional_trauma_may_stunt_intellectual_development_ Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:15:01 -0500 <table> <tr><td> A report card released on Tuesday ranking the relative health of people in more than 3,000 counties in the United States found that those with more college-educated residents had fewer premature deaths and fewer reports of being in poor or fair health. </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: MSNBC - Discipline: Healthhttp://www.labspaces.net/118934/Want_to_be_healthier__Go_to_college__study_finds Tue, 03 Apr 2012 08:48:59 -0500 <table> <tr><td> <img src="/images/news/42359_web.jpg" width="80" height="80" border="0" /> </td><td> There's more to the cosmos than meets the eye. About 80 percent of the matter in the universe is invisible to telescopes, yet its gravitational influence is manifest in the orbital speeds of stars around galaxies and in the motions of clusters of galaxies. Yet, despite decades of effort, no one knows what this "dark matter" really is. Many scientists think it's likely that the mystery will be solv </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center - Discipline: Astronomyhttp://www.labspaces.net/118933/Fermi_observations_of_dwarf_galaxies_provide_new_insights_on_dark_matter Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:00:01 -0500 <table> <tr><td> This image of the eastern US taken from the International Space Station shows that when the sun goes down, the Big Apple is far from alone </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: New Scientist - Discipline: Spacehttp://www.labspaces.net/118932/See_the_cities_that_never_sleep_from_space Tue, 03 Apr 2012 08:48:59 -0500 <table> <tr><td> <img src="/images/news/PET-image.jpg" width="80" height="86.909090909091" border="0" /> </td><td> According to new research conducted at Oregon Health & Science University, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is more than one disorder. It's an entire family of disorders, much like the multiple subtypes of cancer. </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: Oregon Health & Science University - Discipline: Neurosciencehttp://www.labspaces.net/118931/What_do_ADHD_and_cancer_have_in_common__Variety Tue, 03 Apr 2012 13:45:01 -0500

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Sex and Video Games - DivineCaroline

I got back together with an old flame and immediately became too emotionally and physically invested in the relationship. He called me out of the blue, said he wanted to talk and then came to visit me. I felt like I was in a dream. He told me every line in the book, he had made a mistake, he missed me, he was ready for a girlfriend, etc. I bought it hook, line, and sinker. I believed that this was my second chance to be with a man I had previously loved. Immediately we made plans to visit each other since we were now in different cities. We quickly became sexual and we spent several weekends together.

One weekend, the last weekend of our relationship, we had come back to his place after a fun night out. Everything that night had been perfect?great food, great conversation, I was feeling very good about the way things were going. We then had amazing sex.

As soon as he could climb off of me, he logged on to his computer to play video games. No cuddling, no pillowing talk, no falling asleep together. I pretended not to mind and began reading a book to pass the time. After an hour or so I asked him to come to bed, being tired and really wanting to sleep. After refusing my request, he continued to play video games as I drifted off to sleep.

The next day I tried to communicate the fact that I was upset that he ignored me immediately after sharing such an intimate moment. Obviously I wasn?t expecting Prince Charming to declare his love for me and be moved to tears after the act?we had engaged in this activity before?but I was looking for a little comfort after a ?special? time together. He was confused by my reaction, thinking he had acted normally, and then acted awkwardly for the duration of the weekend.

After that weekend we never saw each other again. Communication between us became sparse and eventually we stopped talking to each other. The relationship had ended?again. I was disappointed in myself for falling for his lines and giving him exactly what he wanted: sex. I even drove for two hours and gave it to him on a silver platter. After cutting my losses, I have found myself in a new relationship with a wonderful man who also plays video games.

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Myanmar's Suu Kyi poised to win parliamentary seat

Supporters of National league of Democracy wait for the arrival Aung San Suu Kyi, to greet her while she visits to village Wah Thin Kha the day before the election in Yangon, Saturday, March 31, 2012. On upcoming Sunday, this tiny village of thatched bamboo huts is expected to help vote the frail but intensely stalwart opposition leader into public office for the first time, after decades of suppression by Myanmar's former military rulers. (AP Photo)

Supporters of National league of Democracy wait for the arrival Aung San Suu Kyi, to greet her while she visits to village Wah Thin Kha the day before the election in Yangon, Saturday, March 31, 2012. On upcoming Sunday, this tiny village of thatched bamboo huts is expected to help vote the frail but intensely stalwart opposition leader into public office for the first time, after decades of suppression by Myanmar's former military rulers. (AP Photo)

Supporters of National league of Democracy line the streets as they wait for the arrival of Aung San Suu Kyi, to greet her while she visits to village of Wah Thin Kha, Myanmar, the day before the election, south of Yangon, Saturday, March 31, 2012. On upcoming Sunday, this tiny village of thatched bamboo huts is expected to help vote the frail but intensely stalwart opposition leader into public office for the first time, after decades of suppression by Myanmar's former military rulers. (AP Photo)

A supporter of Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, shouts slogans during an election campaign a day before the country's by-elections in the village of Wah Thin Kha, Myanmar, Saturday, March 31, 2012. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is greeted by supporters upon her arrival in the village of Wah Thin Kha a day before the country's by-elections in the Myanmar, Saturday, March 31, 2012. On Sunday, the tiny village of thatched bamboo huts is expected to help vote the frail but intensely stalwart opposition leader Suu Kyi into public office for the first time, raising the prospect she could win the presidency itself during the next ballot in 2015. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Supporters of Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, shout slogans atop a lorry during an election campaign for April 1 by-elections near the village of Wah Thin Kha in Myanmar, Saturday, March 31, 2012. On Sunday, the tiny village of thatched bamboo huts is expected to help vote the frail but intensely stalwart opposition leader Suu Kyi into public office for the first time, raising the prospect she could win the presidency itself during the next ballot in 2015. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

WAH THIN KHA, Myanmar (AP) ? Myanmar held a landmark election Sunday that was expected to send democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi into parliament for her first public office since launching her decades-long struggle against the military-dominated government.

Sunday's by-election, to fill a few dozen vacant seats, followed months of surprising reforms by a nominally civilian government that does not relish ceding ground to Suu Kyi, but which must appear more democratic in order to emerge from decades of international isolation that have crippled the Southeast Asian nation's economy.

Suu Kyi's party and its opposition allies will have almost no say even if they win all the seats they are contesting, because the 664-seat parliament will remain dominated by the military and the military-backed ruling party.

But if Suu Kyi takes office as expected, it would symbolize a giant leap toward national reconciliation after nearly a quarter-century in which she spent most of her time under house arrest. It could also nudge Western powers closer to easing economic sanctions they have imposed on the country for years.

In Wah Thin Kha, one of dozens of dirt-poor villages south of the main city of Yangon, which the 66-year-old Nobel Peace Prize laureate is vying to represent, hundreds of voters lined up outside a single-story public school to cast ballots in a local race pitting Suu Kyi against the ruling party's Soe Min, a former army doctor.

Suu Kyi slept overnight in the tiny village and then paid a morning visit to the polling station, driving slowly through a crowd of supporters and into the school compound to inspect voting facilities. She chatted briefly with voters and returned to her car to begin the drive back to Yangon.

Most residents here are poor, uneducated rice farmers who say that none of Myanmar's much-heralded reforms have trickled down to their village, which has no electricity, running water or paved roads. But they hope Suu Kyi can change that.

"We've heard a lot on the radio about the changes, but our day-to-day life is the same," said one voter, Go Khehtay, who cast his ballot for Suu Kyi. "She may not be able to do anything at this stage. But one day, I believe she'll be able to bring real change."

Another voter, Mya Thaung, said Suu Kyi represents a dream for a brighter future.

"Life is tough here. We make just enough to survive," said the father of four. "We just hope she can improve our lives."

Last year, Myanmar's long-entrenched military junta handed power to a civilian government dominated by retired officers that skeptics decried as a proxy for continued military rule. But the new rulers ? who came to power in a 2010 vote that critics say was neither free nor fair ? have surprised the world with a wave of reform, prompted in part by a desire to get Western sanctions lifted and to come out from under the influence of Myanmar's powerful neighbor, China.

The government of President Thein Sein, himself a retired lieutenant general, has freed political prisoners, signed truces with rebel groups and opened a direct dialogue with Suu Kyi, who wields enough moral authority to greatly influence the Myanmar policy of the U.S. and other powers.

Her decision to endorse Thein Sein's reforms so far and run in the election was a great gamble. Once in parliament, she can seek to influence policy and challenge the government from within. But she also risks legitimizing a regime she has fought against for decades while gaining little true legislative power.

Suu Kyi is in a "strategic symbiosis" with some of the country's generals and ex-generals, said Maung Zarni, a Myanmar expert and a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics.

"They need her and she needs them to break the 25 years of political stalemate," Zarni said. "She holds the key for the regime's need for its international acceptance and normalization."

On Friday, Suu Kyi told reporters that she hoped "to win the military over, to (make them) understand that we have to work together if we want peace and if we want progress."

The military must understand that "the future of this country is their future and that reform in this country means reform for them as well," she said.

Sunday's poll marks the first foray into electoral politics by Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy party since winning a landslide election victory in 1990. The military annulled those results and kept Suu Kyi in detention for much of the next two decades. The party boycotted the last vote in 2010, but in January the government amended key electoral laws, paving the way for a run in this weekend's ballot.

During a news conference Friday, Suu Kyi cast serious doubt over the ballot's fairness, saying it could not be called free or fair because of myriad irregularities and intimidation during the campaign. Her party says electoral officials have illegally canvassed for the ruling party, opposition posters have been vandalized, and that while some voter lists lack eligible voters, others include the names of the dead.

Still, Suu Kyi said that she had no regrets in joining the race, and that she was determined to go ahead "because we think this is what our people want."

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Associated Press writer Aye Aye Win contributed to this report.

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