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Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Bullied dolphin hides from tormentors near Huntington Beach (+video)
A dolphin nicknamed 'Freddie,' spent the weekend swimming in shallow waters near Huntington Beach, in the Bolsa Chica wetlands. When the dolphin tried to leave, a pod of dolphins chased him back toward shore.
Rescue crews who tried unsuccessfully over the weekend to guide a confused dolphin from the shallow waters of Orange County's Bolsa Chica wetlands decided Monday to hang back and allow the dolphin to return to the open sea at its own pace.
Skip to next paragraph Why marine mammal rescuers are choosing to leave 'Freddie' to his own escape plan.On Friday, human spectators scared the dolphin into staying in the wetlands, wildlife officials said. And on Saturday, another group of dolphins chased the stranded marine animal back into the wetlands as rescuers attempted to guide it back to the open sea.
Because the dolphin is not in immediate danger and there is plenty of food and water available in the wetlands, rescuers believe letting it decide when to leave is the best strategy, said Peter Wallerstein of Marine Animal Rescue.
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"We're being very cautious about forcing it into harm's way," he said.
Wallerstein and five state Department of Fish and Game officers took to paddle boards Saturday morning to encourage the 7-foot dolphin to continue swimming to freedom after they noticed that it had swum several hundred yards closer to Huntington Harbour, which spills into the ocean.
The six paddleboarders managed to shoo the dolphin a few hundred yards closer to the harbor when the animal noticed another group of dolphins swimming in circles ahead of it.
Apparently frightened, the wayward dolphin turned around and dived deep into the harbor, swimming beneath the paddle-boarders and a bridge and back into the wetlands.
"There could be tension among the dolphin pod and dolphins can be very aggressive, even among themselves," he said.
Wallerstein also urged spectators to keep away from the dolphin so it does not become distracted or confused by people along the shoreline.
The dolphin is believed to be one of six that swam into the wetlands early last week. The other dolphins are believed to have returned to sea Thursday.
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(c)2012 the Los Angeles Times
Distributed by MCT Information Services via Associated Press
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Gadhafi ally in exile in France, Sarkozy says
PARIS (AP) ? French President Nicolas Sarkozy says that a former top aide to Libya's Moammar Gadhafi apparently wanted by Interpol is living in France with government permission.
The ex-aide, Basher Saleh, is a target of U.S. sanctions.
Sarkozy said on RMC radio Tuesday that "Saleh is in France." Sarkozy says France's government decided to take Saleh in after consulting Libyan authorities.
Sarkozy insists that the French government is "working hand in hand with the Libyan authorities" and will turn Saleh over to Interpol if asked.
Sarkozy says the question of the suspect's identity needs to be settled first. Interpol's website has a so-called red notice for a man named Bashir al-Shrkawi, based on a Libyan warrant for "fraud." The photo in the listing appears to be that of Saleh.
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Deleted Scenes: California mad cow case no reason for panic
Animal did not have foodborne form of disease
Web edition : Monday, April 30th, 2012
When a dairy cow in California was recently diagnosed with a rare form of mad cow disease, agriculture officials said the animal posed no danger to human health. The assurances are more than just platitudes, scientists and a new study in mice suggests.
On April 24, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that a 10-year-old dairy cow had been found to have bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE, often called mad cow disease. The cow was the fourth animal ever diagnosed with the disease in the United States. One of those cows, an animal imported from Canada, had the classical form of the disease caused by eating feed contaminated with infected brain and nervous system material from other cows.
But the new case does not appear to have been caused by contaminated feed. This case proved to be a spontaneous type of BSE. And a new study using mice suggests that it may be harder for this atypical BSE to cause disease in people compared with the more common form of BSE even if people are exposed to it.
All forms of BSE are prion diseases, which result when a normal brain protein called PrP twists into a different shape and then converts other normal copies of the protein into the disease-causing form. Such diseases strike many different animals, including sheep, deer, elk and people. In atypical forms of BSE, the PrP protein probably folds into slightly different shapes compared with the ones caused by eating contaminated feed. Scientists have found two atypical forms, the H-type and the L-type. The California dairy cow had the L-type.
About one in a million people contract the human form of prion disease called Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. That disease strikes sporadically, meaning that it appears seemingly at random and doctors and scientists don?t know why. The human disease that stems from eating beef infected with BSE, known as variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, has been recorded in only 224 cases according to the World Health Organization.
So far, no humans are known to have contracted variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease from cattle infected with atypical BSE.
Whereas the classical form of BSE usually strikes cattle between 4 and 8 years old, the atypical form is found in cattle older than 8 years old. No one knows exactly how often the atypical form of the disease appears in cattle, but over a six-year period, French surveillance programs detected 13 cases of atypical BSE in 3.6 million cattle over 8 years old, says Thierry Baron, a neuroscientist at the French national food safety agency in Lyon.
Baron and his colleagues published a study in the January Emerging Infectious Diseases suggesting that mouse lemurs could contract the L-type of atypical BSE more easily than the classical version of the prion disease. The reason no humans have contracted variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease from cattle infected with L-type BSE may simply be a numbers game, he says: The disease occurs far too infrequently for people to get exposed to it.
But it may actually be harder for the L-type prion to corrupt human PrP than it is for the classical form of the prion, Rona Barron, a molecular biologist at the University of Edinburgh and colleagues, including Baron, report online April 11 in the Journal of General Virology. The researchers created mice that make the human version of PrP in their brains at normal levels. Atypical BSE, chronic wasting disease (a prion disease in deer and elk) and atypical forms of scrapie (a sheep prion disease) all failed to cause disease in the mice.
Her study is hardly the last word on the infectious potential of atypical BSE, Barron says. Other substances in the brain may have a hand in determining whether PrP will go rogue. Regardless of how infectious the atypical prion is, worldwide surveillance efforts and bans on including the brain and nervous system of cattle in food and feed are doing a good job of keeping all prions out of the food supply, she says. ?I don?t think there is a cause for mass hysteria.??
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Talking of Sex: For so many questions, relationships and sex ...
Over the last few months sexuality has been in the news for a wide range of reasons. ?Everything from gay rights, homophobic bullying and equal marriage, access to contraception & abortion, sex & relationships education in the primary school to young people watching porn on the internet in secret. ?Lots of the 'news' is driven by genuine worries and the changing ways that young people can access information about sex, as well as some irrational concern about the (im)morality of young people and their sexual behaviour combined with a lack of trust in young people and the professionals who work with them.
Each time I talk to a journalist, policy maker or parent about any of the issues - homophobic bullying, early sex, access to internet based porn there is one simple, straightforward and easy answer about what must be done - talk to children and young people about sex, relationships and sexuality in an open and positive way from a very early age. ?Alongside other things we need to support parents to talk to their children confidently about sex, relationships and sexuality, and get relationships and sex education properly established in schools in this country once and for all.
Good RSE starts at home, and is then built on and complemented at school and in the community at youth clubs, churches and other settings that children and young people go to. It is?a fundamental entitlement for all children and young people if we want to both protect and empower them.
Of course RSE is not a universal panacea. ?However all the evidence tells us that good quality RSE that meets certain criteria (including discerning messages in the news and linking to confidential services) helps children and young people confidently navigate their way through puberty, into adolescence and adulthood, developing vital life skills along the way. ?These life skills including discernment, negotiation and communication, self awareness, setting boundaries, understanding consent - saying yes, maybe or no, seeking help and respecting others rights.
The evidence is clear: RSE contributes to reducing teenage pregnancy and improving sexual health by delaying early sex and improving contraceptive use. Evidence also shows that where gay relationships and homophobia are integrated into RSE and there is a positive ethos/pastoral care system that tackles bullying well homophobic bullying is reduced. ?And if anyone believes gay equality has been achieved, or is unsure of the need to tackle homophobia urgently read this brilliant article about its impact by Patrick Strudwick in todays Sunday Mail?http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/article-2135648/Bullying-schools-How-school-bullies-ripped-Crouch-family-apart.html).
The Secretary of State for Education, Michael Gove talked about sex education last week. ?He may well be right that young people who do well academically are less likely to take risks with their behaviour (probably because risk taking behaviour and academic success is explicitly linked to vulnerability, rather than an indicator that we must focus all our attention on reading, writing and arithmetic). ?ALL children and young people whatever their gender or sexuality and wherever they are from need and have a right to learn about emotions, relationships, sex and sexuality. This right is enshrined in the UN Convention on the rights of the child.
A small and vocal minority in the UK claim that relationships and sex education as a secular activity that is part of the problem, contributing to 'sexualisation' of the young, promiscuity and poor sexual health. ?The truth of course is somewhat difference and RSE can, does and must address the range of faiths, cultures and values in the UK. ?RSE at home and school is more important now than ever as a way of providing accurate, unbiased and evidence based information to counter all the misinformation, myths and prejudice available elsewhere.
So that is why RSE is the answer to so many questions. ?It is 100% part of the solution (if I was a talent show judge I would probably say it is 1 million % part of the solution). ?And that is why RSE is supported by the majority of children and young people, parents and professionals, and why Brook is campaigning for 21st Century sex and relationships education. ?Add your name to the campaign at www.sexpositive.org.uk
You can also write to your MP to tell them you support relationships and sex education. ?Through their mail bag they hear the voice of those who oppose it, and they need to hear the majority voice in support of RSE too.
Some examples of articles, positive or otherwise are included below
- gay rights and equal marriage?
- access to the contraception and abortion
- Sex and relationships education
- Young people watching porn
- Sex Education Forum (www.ncb.org.uk/sef) publish a series of factsheets on best practice in sex and relationships education including publications on Faith, Values and SRE
- FPA (www.fpa.org.uk) publish a book - Speakeasy - to help parents talk to their children about sex and relationships
- Stonewall (www.stonewall.org.uk) and Diversity Role Models (www.diversityrolemodels.org) support schools in tackling homophobia and learning about gay relationships?
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Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Smarter TV: CrestaTech Grabs $13M To Bring Region-Free TV Reception To Any Device
Broadcast TV, set top boxes, IPTVs, DVRs and PVRs are going the way of the Dodo, and today's connected TVs have to be able to take advantage of the same smart processors and dynamic OS tech that powers smart consumer mobile devices today. This is the thinking being employed by a Silicon Valley-based startup called CrestaTech, which has been quietly designing a portfolio of programmable hardware and software technologies that enable universal TV reception for all manners of smart devices, TVs, tablets, and PCs. The vision is a big one, and today CrestaTech received further financial validation for its endeavor, announcing that it has closed a $13 million series B round of investment.lake vostok montgomery county public schools the river dr dog ke$ha earl csco
94% The Secret World of Arrietty
All Critics (115) | Top Critics (25) | Fresh (108) | Rotten (7)
As pretty as it is, this Secret World is too Earthbound by far.
The Secret World of Arrietty is a marvelously captivating animated feature about very tiny people and the full-scale world they inhabit.
Yonebayashi gives Arrietty an excellent sense of balance, with the adventure aspects of the story, which feel legitimately dangerous providing well-paced contrast the film's more placid moments.
It's an enjoyable and attractive-looking film, but a little of that "Speed Racer" energy wouldn't have been such a bad thing.
The visual details are inventive, and the animation - particularly the colors - is lovely.
"The Secret World of Arrietty'' is a feast for the eyes that will engage the entire family.
There's a gentle movie from Japan that's going to seem familiar to a lot of fans of the series of books about 'The Borrowers.'
Like motion picture Yoga--quietly cathartic and just the thing to raise your kids on.
It certainly belongs in the second rank of Ghibli fantasies. But give it a chance.
Most will be caught up in its beautiful spell, immersed in great storytelling at its finest.
The soft-focus animation has an impressionistic quality, as if a gentle breeze had wafted across a Monet canvas.
This smart, winsome fairy tale is not quite Hiyao Miyazaki, but it still might be the best animated film that (some few) will see all year.
Another Studio Ghibli wonder, as heartbreaking for its devotion to craft, artistry and intelligent storytelling (for viewers of all ages) as for its themes of inevitable exile and impossible love.
There's a gentle movie from Japan that's going to seem familiar to a lot of fans of the series of books about 'The Borrowers.'
...yet another jewel in the crown of Studio Ghibli.
...creates a sense of wide-eyed wonder and discovery as we experience the awe-inspiring mysteries of an ordinary house as seen from the four-inch borrower's point of view.
The animation, a gorgeous blend of bewitching watercolored backgrounds and poignantly rendered characters, is, as ever, beyond reproach.
What is most effective is the way the sense of peaceful shelter and retreat in the country setting contrasts with the precariousness of the situations faced by Shawn and Arrietty.
It's hard to imagine this scenario playing out with more delicacy and care than animator-turned-director Yonebayashi Hiromasa brings to bear.
Arrietty has an elegiac mood, like a more wan and sedate Toy Story.
Gently enchanting, an extraordinary adventure
There may not be a frenzy of action and fast cuts but each scene has meticulous details about how the borrowers live, how they make use of the things in their environment to survive.
Tiny people who live in the walls of a rural home are put at risk when they are discovered by the humans residing there. Studio Ghibli offers a soothing animated version of the classic children's novels.
the basic elements of loneliness, friendship, and the fragility of life are intact, along with that ineffable sense of wonder, melancholy, and magic
By being less bizarre than SPIRITED AWAY and having more of a human center to the film, THE SECRET WORLD OF ARRIETTY is one of Studio Ghibli's best efforts to date.
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