Marin Alliance For Medical Marijuana, California's Oldest Dispensary, Faces Foreclosure

This article comes to us courtesy of SF Weekly's The Snitch.

By Chris Roberts

The choice offered by the Justice Department was clear: Select California medical cannabis dispensaries needed to close up shop or have their properties seized and operators thrown in prison.

This was the ultimatum issued in September by United States Attorney for Northern California Melinda Haag to the landlords of five Bay Area dispensaries. In response, three dispensaries in San Francisco closed, and one in Oakland relocated.

The landlord of the fifth, Marin Alliance for Medical Marijuana, did what he could do as prescribed under California law: He began eviction proceedings against the dispensary, the state's oldest.

But that was not enough for Haag, whose office on Friday began forfeiture proceedings against the 600-square-foot Fairfax storefront, attorneys said Tuesday, even as eviction hearings were scheduled for this week.

"The landlord has complied [with the letter] and begun eviction proceedings -- this is just intimidation to go through with the forfeiture," dispensary operator Lynette Shaw said.

Shaw did not identify exactly who owns the property at 6 School Street Plaza, targeted by Haag because of its proximity to Bolinas Park.

Fairfax-based attorney Robert Weems, representing the landlord in court, did not return a telephone call seeking comment. And Jack Gillund, a spokesman for the Department of Justice, did not respond to an e-mail seeking comment.

The forfeiture proceedings are believed to be the first in California since the four U.S. Attorneys announced a statewide crackdown on the medical marijuana industry on Oct. 7, according to San Francisco attorney Matt Kumin, who is representing Shaw in a lawsuit filed against Haag. The lawsuit seeks a restraining order on the Justice Department's closing of dispensaries, and argues that the federal government gave the okay to medical cannabis in California in a 2010 settlement of a lawsuit brought by a Santa Cruz collective.

Marin Alliance is California's oldest continuously operating dispensary, located in Fairfax since 1996. Shaw, a medical cannabis patient who is not accused of breaking any state or local laws, is drawing sympathy in the town, where the council and mayor passed a resolution in support of her dispensary.

"The whole town [of Fairfax] is up in arms," said attorney Greg Anton, Shaw's longtime attorney.

In the past, federal officials have said that only dispensaries breaking local law would be targeted for enforcement.

"For them to choose her to make an example of really goes against all they've said they're trying to do," Anton said. "It's like saying, 'We don't want to hurt the people in the house, but we'll burn the house down.'"

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Baggy Rack Means The End of Spilt Salsa [Genius]

These magical green arms are your ticket to never spilling your delicious sauces again. Hug my sauce bags Baggy Rack, hug 'em good. More »

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Oil price up on Mideast strife, Europe debt plan (AP)

NEW YORK ? Oil prices rose Tuesday on concerns that Middle East strife could disrupt supplies and on hopes that Europe's debt crisis wouldn't lead to worldwide financial gridlock.

West Texas Intermediate crude, the benchmark used to price oil in much of the U.S., rose $1.09 to end at $98.01 a barrel in New York. Brent crude, which is used to price oil produced in many foreign countries, rose $1.99 to finish at $108.65 a barrel in London.

Oil prices rose on worries that new international sanctions on Iran would reduce the flow of oil from the world's fourth biggest oil producer. Also large, violent protests in Egypt stirred fears that upheaval in the region could spread and disrupt supplies. Egypt is not a major oil producer, but it does control important energy supply lines and wields considerable influence in the region.

The worst fears about Europe's debt crisis ? that it could lead to a lending crisis and financial gridlock around the world ? were allayed somewhat Tuesday by the announcement of an International Monetary Fund plan designed to help prevent the debt crisis in Europe from spreading. The IMF plan would provide quick cash on flexible terms to countries facing sudden financial stress.

Concerns remain that Europe's debt crisis is pushing the region toward recession, which would slow industrial activity in Europe and in countries around the world that export to Europe.

In the U.S., the Commerce Department said the economy grew more slowly over the summer than the government had earlier estimated. That picture of a sluggish economy helped drive the stock market mostly lower Tuesday.

When the global economy slows, demand for crude oil and refined products like diesel and gasoline falls because fewer goods are produced and shipped, and people travel less. Even with Tuesday's gain, oil is down 5 percent since last Wednesday, when it spiked to $102.59 per barrel.

"The market is concerned on the one hand about the rate of economic growth," said Andrew Lipow, an independent oil analyst based in Houston. "On the other hand issues in the Middle East are continuing."

There was some encouraging economic news in the U.S., however, that helped push oil higher Tuesday. The government reported that inventories of goods fell over the summer. That raised hopes that the economy could grow faster than expected in the current quarter, if factories crank up to restock shelves.

And mild weather forecast for much of the U.S. over the Thanksgiving weekend is expected to motivate drivers to hit the road to visit families and shop. The price of gasoline futures rose nearly 3 percent, to finish at $2.5618 a gallon in New York, a gain of 7.28 cents.

At the pump, retail gasoline fell almost a penny to a national average of $3.34 per gallon on Tuesday, according to AAA, Oil Price Information Service and Wright Express. In coming days the higher price of wholesale gasoline could push up pump prices.

Gasoline demand has been falling in the U.S. for the past several months. It began to drop sharply as prices rose above $4 per gallon in many states last winter and spring. Current pump prices, while still high, are 16 percent below the peak national average of $3.98 per gallon reached on May 5.

In other energy trading in New York on Tuesday, natural gas rose 2 cents to finish at $3.4150 per 1,000 cubic feet, and heating oil rose 4 cents to end the day at $3.0346 a gallon.

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Australia lifts oil spill fines to $11 million (AP)

CANBERRA, Australia ? Australia has increased maximum fines for ships that spill oil from $1 million to $11 million (US $11 million) in response to a Chinese coal carrier grounding on the Great Barrier Reef.

Parliament passed new laws late Monday for the discharge of oil or oil residue by ships in Australian waters. Shipping companies will also have to contribute to cleanup costs.

The change follows last year's grounding on the world's largest chain of coral reefs by the Shen Neng 1, which spilled nearly 3 tons of fuel oil. The ship's officers were fined about $50,000.

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The Galaxy Nexus Outperforms the iPhone 4S [Android]

Like we weren't excited about the Galaxy Nexus enough already. The crew at AnandTech has been busily benchmarking Android's new flagship against Apple's top performer. The results? The Galaxy Nexus is the new king of the hill in some key areas. More »

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Stopgap Budget Bill Shows Compromise, but Misguided Congressional Priorities (ContributorNetwork)

COMMENTARY | The gap between Republicans and Democrats isn't impassable after all. Early on Thursday the House of Representatives voted 298-121 to approve $130.4 billion in federal spending cuts, before the bill passed 70-30 in the Senate. After easily passing through Congress, President Barack Obama signed the bill into law, giving a 2012 budget for five Cabinet-level agencies, along with numerous state and local agencies and NASA. The budget is the first step towards creating a leaner government, but will only reduce federal spending by about 0.5 percent ($700 million), according to a Washington Post report.

The bill beat a Friday deadline to make progress on the United States' budget conundrum and gives lawmakers until Dec.16 to find more spending cuts or have a government shutdown further blacken Congress' name in the court of public opinion. However, the programs that will lose funding as a result of this new budget may make the tarnishing of our nation's lawmakers inevitable.

While food aid programs like food stamps and school lunch received a budget increase, many of the approved cuts will severely defund and outright end many public programs, according to a report done by Federal Times. The bill contained provisions to cut $819 million of funding for the maintenance and operation of low-income housing complexes; and remove $296 million from the Justice Department's Community Oriented Police Service program to free up more funds for the FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, and the Bureau of Prisons.

The bill also contained measures to slash millions of funding earmarked for a program that provided incentives for farmers to not allow pollution to runoff from their lands into water supplies. It will also take millions from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which is charged with overseeing and regulating the $3 trillion derivatives market and the practice of the complex financial transactions called, "swaps," which were partially to blame for the 2008 global financial crisis.

Congressional priorities seem to be with keeping law enforcement agencies, afloat, allowing more deregulation of the financial sector, allowing environmental pollution, and maintaining prisons instead of housing projects. Lawmakers blamed the harsh cuts on a "challenging budget environment;" a day after President Obama announced plans to station 2,500 U.S. Marines in Australia and allocate funds to ensure the United States remained a "Pacific power."

Thursday's stopgap budget bill averted a partial government shutdown, and put the onus on the 12 member congressional "supercommittee" to strike a deal to avoid activating the $1.2 trillion in automatic spending cuts outlined in August's debt-ceiling compromise. But it also reveals what Congress' true concerns are, now that U.S. lawmakers can no longer afford to show their voters that they're concerned with everything.

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Separating signal and noise in climate warming

Friday, November 18, 2011

In order to separate human-caused global warming from the "noise" of purely natural climate fluctuations, temperature records must be at least 17 years long, according to climate scientists.

To address criticism of the reliability of thermometer records of surface warming, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists analyzed satellite measurements of the temperature of the lower troposphere (the region of the atmosphere from the surface to roughly five miles above) and saw a clear signal of human-induced warming of the planet.

Satellite measurements of atmospheric temperature are made with microwave radiometers, and are completely independent of surface thermometer measurements. The satellite data indicate that the lower troposphere has warmed by roughly 0.9 degrees Fahrenheit since the beginning of satellite temperature records in 1979. This increase is entirely consistent with the warming of Earth's surface estimated from thermometer records.

Recently, a number of global warming critics have focused attention on the behavior of Earth's temperature since 1998. They have argued that there has been little or no warming over the last 10 to 12 years, and that computer models of the climate system are not capable of simulating such short "hiatus periods" when models are run with human-caused changes in greenhouse gases.

"Looking at a single, noisy 10-year period is cherry picking, and does not provide reliable information about the presence or absence of human effects on climate said Benjamin Santer, a climate scientist and lead author on an article in the Nov. 17 online edition of the Journal of Geophysical Research (Atmospheres).

Many scientific studies have identified a human "fingerprint" in observations of surface and lower tropospheric temperature changes. These detection and attribution studies look at long, multi-decade observational temperature records. Shorter periods generally have small signal to noise ratios, making it difficult to identify an anthropogenic signal with high statistical confidence, Santer said.

"In fingerprinting, we analyze longer, multi-decadal temperature records, and we beat down the large year-to-year temperature variability caused by purely natural phenomena (like El Ni?os and La Ni?as). This makes it easier to identify a slowly-emerging signal arising from gradual, human-caused changes in atmospheric levels of greenhouse gases," Santer said.

The LLNL-led research shows that climate models can and do simulate short, 10- to 12-year "hiatus periods" with minimal warming, even when the models are run with historical increases in greenhouse gases and sulfate aerosol particles. They find that tropospheric temperature records must be at least 17 years long to discriminate between internal climate noise and the signal of human-caused changes in the chemical composition of the atmosphere.

"One individual short-term trend doesn't tell you much about long-term climate change," Santer said. "A single decade of observational temperature data is inadequate for identifying a slowly evolving human-caused warming signal. In both the satellite observations and in computer models, short, 10-year tropospheric temperature trends are strongly influenced by the large noise of year-to-year climate variability."

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Multidisciplinary team of researchers develop world's lightest material

Friday, November 18, 2011

A team of researchers from UC Irvine, HRL Laboratories and the California Institute of Technology have developed the world's lightest material ? with a density of 0.9 mg/cc ? about 100 times lighter than Styrofoam. Their findings appear in the Nov. 18 issue of Science.

The new material redefines the limits of lightweight materials because of its unique "micro-lattice" cellular architecture. The researchers were able to make a material that consists of 99.99 percent air by designing the 0.01 percent solid at the nanometer, micron and millimeter scales. "The trick is to fabricate a lattice of interconnected hollow tubes with a wall thickness 1,000 times thinner than a human hair," said lead author Dr. Tobias Schaedler of HRL.

The material's architecture allows unprecedented mechanical behavior for a metal, including complete recovery from compression exceeding 50 percent strain and extraordinarily high energy absorption.

"Materials actually get stronger as the dimensions are reduced to the nanoscale," explained UCI mechanical and aerospace engineer Lorenzo Valdevit, UCI's principal investigator on the project. "Combine this with the possibility of tailoring the architecture of the micro-lattice and you have a unique cellular material."

Developed for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the novel material could be used for battery electrodes and acoustic, vibration or shock energy absorption.

William Carter, manager of the architected materials group at HRL, compared the new material to larger, more familiar edifices: "Modern buildings, exemplified by the Eiffel Tower or the Golden Gate Bridge, are incredibly light and weight-efficient by virtue of their architecture. We are revolutionizing lightweight materials by bringing this concept to the nano and micro scales."

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MediaTek-powered ZTE MT73 packs TD-LTE, TD-SCDMA, GSM, dual SIM and magic dust

Here's a funny one we spotted at China Mobile's booth at Mobile Asia Congress: a ZTE Android phone powered by a MediaTek chipset that supports TD-LTE, TD-SCDMA, GSM and dual SIM! Of course, given that China Mobile is currently the exclusive carrier to the TD-SCDMA technology, we're not expecting this peculiar device to pop up anywhere beyond the Great Wall any time soon; but knowing that there's a dual-SIM LTE phone somewhere on this planet still makes our day.

Spec-wise this MT73 prototype features Android 2.3.4, an 800MHz processor, 1GB of RAM, a 4.1-inch 854 x 480 LCD with capacitive touchscreen, a five megapixel main camera, a VGA front-facing camera and a 1,100mAh battery. As per usual ZTE build quality, there's an inevitable cheap feel upon laying our hands on this phone, but we'll give ZTE the benefit of the doubt and wait for the final version. As for a launch date, the folks at China Mobile said it'll depend on when will the government issue a commercial license for TD-LTE. To keep you occupied for the time being, we have a hands-on video right after the break.

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Bypass the Clipboard by Dragging Text to the OS X Dock or App Switcher [Video]

If you want to save the contents of the Mac OS X clipboard, or just don't want to bother with it at all, you don't have to. You can just drag text (or, presumably, any other media) from one app to another using the dock or even the app switcher.

As you can see above, dragging a link out of TextEdit and onto Firefox's icon results in Firefox loading the page automatically. This is a bit quicker than copying and pasting the link. You can also drag text from a web site onto TextEdit's icon and it'll create a new document with that text. The same should go for any other kind of media, letting you transport it around as you please without the aid of the clipboard. Just use the dock or bring up OS X's app switcher (Command+Tab) and drag away.

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Brewer to turn spent grains into energy

Alaskan Brewing Co.

Alaskan Brewing Co. received a nearly half-million dollar grant to install a steam boiler fired entirely by spent grain.

By John Roach

The U.S. government is giving a nearly half-million dollar grant to a beer maker in Alaska that aims to install a first-of-its-kind boiler that is fueled entirely by spent grain.

All brewers are confronted with mountains of spent grains ? mostly barley. Many get rid of the waste by routing it to farmers for animal feed, a noble service that can help grow a steak to accompany your fine ale.

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For the Alaskan Brewing Co. in Juneau, this has involved an added step, since the closest market for its grains is a long-distance, boat-ride away in Seattle.

To keep the grains from decomposing during transport, the brewery first dries them in a machine that is heated by a biomass burner that uses about 50 percent of the spent grain as a fuel source.

Now, with the help of the $458,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Energy for America program, the brewery is installing a machine that will use the dried grain to power a biomass steam boiler.

"The new boiler will eliminate the brewery's use of oil in the grain drying process and displace more than half of the fuel needed to create process steam," the company said in an emailed statement.

Brewers use process team, for example, to boil the sugary water called wort, created when sugars are extracted from the grains, a key step in brewing beer.

The boiler will cut the brewery's overall energy use from oil, and corresponding carbon emissions, by more than 70 percent, according to Alaskan Brewing Co.

The system also eliminates?the need to ship the grain south to cattle around Seattle, Ashley Johnston, a company spokeswoman, told me.

The grant is one of eight announced Thursday by the agriculture department, all of which are aimed at helping rural businesses to lower energy costs so that they can stay competitive and, potentially, hire more workers.

In total, 52 projects received over $31 million in grants and loan note guarantees through the program this year. The grants can finance up to 25 percent of a project's cost.

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iOS code shows iChat references for iPhone, iPad

iOS developer @Gojohnnyboi discovered some code in iOS 5.0.1 that could indicate iChat — Apple’s Mac OS X instant messenger client — functionality may be coming to iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch down the road. Although the new iMessage feature in iOS 5 doesn’t hook into...

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True Blood Taps Valentina Cervi for Villainous Role (omg!)

True Blood is bringing in more fresh blood for Season 5.

Italian actress Valentina Cervi will join the cast as a series regular, TVGuide.com has confirmed. Cervi, who recently appeared in the BBC miniseries Zen, will portray Salome, an ancient vampire who's not only intelligent but a skilled seductress. TVLine.com first reported the news.

True Blood Scoop: Lucy Griffiths joins cast as Eric's "sister"

Salome, as in the Salome from the Bible, is the most powerful person, though she's capable of hiding her powers when it serves her purpose.

True Blood is slated to return with Season 5 next year.

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Mali citizen pleads guilty in NYC to terror charge (AP)

NEW YORK ? An African man has pleaded guilty in New York City to a terrorism charge, admitting that he engaged in the drug dealing trade with men who claimed they worked for terrorists who committed kidnappings.

Oumar Issa (OO'-mahr EE'-sah) pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiring to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization.

The citizen of Mali told a magistrate judge that he agreed in 2009 to transport drugs through the Sahara desert. He said the men he worked with claimed they worked for the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, and that they had done kidnappings. Issa said he had never heard of FARC.

A sentencing date wasn't set. Issa has agreed to be deported after he serves a sentence likely to be between five and 15 years in prison.

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Tribes aren't banking on just casinos anymore (AP)

INDIAN TOWNSHIP, Maine ? Long before Europeans arrived, the Passamaquoddy tribe spent summers feasting on seafood along the rocky shore of Passamaquoddy Bay, known for its dramatic tidal changes. In the winter, the tribe traveled up the St. Croix River in birch canoes to hunt deer, caribou and moose in vast tracts of woods.

Back then, the land and sea gave the tribe everything it needed.

In modern times, the tribe faces strained budgets and staggering unemployment and is again looking to wind, water and land to provide for the tribe through initiatives that could one day include a commercial wind farm, a bottled water plant and maple syrup production.

Across the U.S., 220 tribes operate about 400 casinos, but economic development expands beyond that into real estate, construction and energy.

Two tribes in Wisconsin and two in southern California formed Four Fires LLC to collaborate on construction of a hotel in Washington, D.C. In Florida, the Seminoles own the Hard Rock brand. The Southern Ute in southwestern Colorado and Osage Nation in Oklahoma have successful oil and gas operations.

"Tribes, large and small, have found success in gaming , in construction, in defense contracting," said Carl Artman, who runs the Tribal Economic Development Program at the Arizona State University College of Law. "It's all over the board. They vary in size. They vary in geography. It's a matter of tribal leaders taking advantage of the opportunities that are before them."

At the nation's northeastern tip, the Passamaquoddies wanted to build a racetrack casino to give a boost to the sagging economy for 35,000 residents in Washington County. The rejection last week by Maine voters doesn't dampen enthusiasm for the tribe's other economic development efforts.

"You lose when you give up. You lose when you surrender. I'm not about to do that," said Clayton Cleaves, tribal chief from Pleasant Point, where 780 tribal members reside. Another 600 tribal members live 45 miles away on a series of lakes in Indian Township reservation.

The latest census figures from the Bureau of Indian Affairs put unemployment at greater than 60 percent on both reservations in 2005, and that was before the banking meltdown that left the U.S. economy hobbled.

The tribe's housing comes from federal dollars, and it also receives assistance from the state. The goal is for the tribe to become sufficient and free itself from state and federal aid, tribal leaders say.

Decent-paying jobs will go a long way to addressing many of the county's problems that include widespread prescription drug abuse, as well as helping the tribal budget, tribal leaders say.

Already, tribal members have a successful joint venture in a blueberry operation. And Indian Township owns a company, Creative Apparel, which provides jobs for more than 300 people producing chemical warfare suits for the military.

Looking ahead, the tribe plans to launch a syrup-making operation on 37,000 acres of land on which several hundred thousand maple trees grow near Jackman.

The Passamaquoddies are early in the process of exploring the possibility of tapping into a natural spring at Indian Township. The aquifer produces 200 gallons a minute of water, and the tribe is considering building a bottling plant.

The tribe is also looking to tap into green energy, initiating a feasibility study for a 54-megawatt wind farm on a ridge in Township 19 near Columbia Falls. The tribe has enlisted the state's former economic and community development chief to help determine the suitability of the site.

"It's an exciting project because it would be a tribally owned project that would help transform the tribe, but obviously we have a lot of work to do," said John Richardson, who's the managing director of Native Power LLC, the company set up to explore green energy.

The tribe's economic development plan still includes a racetrack casino, something the tribe has sought since 1992, long before state voters approved to two other gambling facilities, Hollywood Slots in Bangor and a casino that's under construction in Oxford.

Passamaquoddies, along with the Penobscot Indian Nation, were defeated in 2003 when they proposed a casino in Sanford. In 2007, Passamaquoddies tried again for a racino, and voters rejected them again. In the Legislature, racino proposals have received approval, only to be vetoed by then-Gov. John Baldacci.

On Tuesday, voters handed the tribe another defeat.

Indian Township Chief Joseph Socobasin said the latest casino setback was disappointing, but he said the outcome didn't sting nearly as much as in 2003 when voters rejected a tribal casino. Back then, he said, there was no backup plan for creating jobs.

The tribe still wants to build a casino that could lure people from across the border from Canada and provide jobs for the Down East region, and it will be back in Augusta in January to begin lobbying anew for a casino, Socobasin said. But the tribe has known all along that it needs economic diversity and cannot tie its future to any single proposal.

"Gaming isn't the pie in the sky that's going to bring all of this revenue to the tribes," Socobasin said. "We realize it isn't going to solve all of our problems. We need three or four things."

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Motorola Droid RAZR rooted -- watch out for rough edges

First it was the Kevlar-coated hardware, and now Android enthusiasts have cracked open the software edges of Motorola's latest Android baby. Yes, that dual-core slice of smartphone that is the Droid RAZR can now be rooted, but there is a catch. The Windows-only program won't let you reverse the deal once you've taken the hack-friendly plunge, even if you're unfortunate enough to hit a soft brick wall. You can check out the directions in the source link below, but we're wagging our finger of caution right now -- you've been warned.

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Obama urges Congress to reach consensus on deficit

KAPOLEI, Hawaii (AP) ? President Barack Obama is urging Congress to reach consensus on a plan to slash the nation's deficit, saying lawmakers are continuing to stick with "rigid positions" rather than solving the problem.

A committee in charge of cutting the deficit has until Nov. 23 to agree on how to reduce it by at least $1.2 trillion in the next decade.

Any amount less than that would be made up in automatic across-the-board cuts divided evenly between defense and domestic programs.

Obama says at a news conference in Hawaii that he hopes lawmakers will "bite the bullet and do what needs to be done."

He says it appears members of Congress "want to keep jiggering the math" to get a different outcome.

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Why the World May Be Running Out of Clean Water (Time.com)

Earlier this month, officials in the South Pacific island nation of Tuvalu had to confront a pretty dire problem: they were running out of water. Due to a severe and lasting drought, water reserves in this country of 11,000 people had dwindled to just a few days' worth. Climate change plays a role here: as sea levels rose, Tuvalu's groundwater became increasingly saline and undrinkable, leaving the island dependent on rainwater. But now a La Ni?a?influenced drought has severely curtailed rainfall, leaving Tuvalu dry as a bone. "This situation is bad," Pusinelli Laafai, Tuvalu's permanent secretary of home affairs, told the Associated Press earlier this month. "It's really bad."

So far Tuvalu has been bailed out by its neighbors Australia and New Zealand, which have donated rehydration packets and desalination equipment. But the archipelago's water woes are just beginning ? and it's far from the only part of the world facing a big dry. Other island nations like the Maldives and Kiribati will see their groundwater spoil as sea levels rise. Texas, along with much of the American Southwest, is in the grip of a truly record-breaking drought ? even after days of storms in the past month, Houston's total 2011 rainfall is still short of its yearly average by a whopping 2 ft., or 60 cm. Australia has experienced severely dry weather for so long, it's not even clear whether the country is in a state of drought, or more worryingly, a new and permanent dry climate that could forever alter life Down Under. "Climate-change impacts on water resources continue to appear in the form of growing influence on the severity and intensity of extreme events," says Peter Gleick, one of the foremost water experts in the U.S. and head of the Pacific Institute, an NGO based in Oakland, Calif., that focuses on global water issues. "Australia's recent extraordinary extreme drought should be an eye-opener for the rest of us." (See photos of the world's water crisis.)

Volume 7 of the Pacific Institute's regular report on global water usage, The World's Water, comes out today, just in time to address the squeeze of droughts, the increasingly apparent impact of climate change and the threats facing our relatively scarce supplies of freshwater. The sweeping report is a reminder that clean water is vital to life ? as Gleick points out, more than 2 million people die each year from preventable water-related diseases ? and that on the whole, we're not doing a very good job of husbanding that resource. There's even a risk here that parts of the U.S., especially the arid West, may have passed "peak water" ? the point at which it becomes essentially impossible to increase supply.

Potential water shortages are one more reason to try to reduce carbon emissions and blunt the worst impacts of climate change ? a warmer world is likely to further dry out already arid regions, even as extreme rainfall intensifies in already wet areas. But however severe the effects of climate change become, we're going to need to use water much more efficiently than we do now: the world's population is expected to pass the 7 billion mark by the end of this month, and more people will need more water. "New thinking about solutions and sustainable water planning and management, better data, case studies and efforts to raise awareness, are all needed," Gleick writes in The World's Water.(Read about radioactive water in Japan.)

Smarter water policy might mean rethinking other fields of resource use. Take, for example, natural gas drilling. Hydraulic fracturing has vastly increased American supplies of natural gas, which is good for gas companies and, because natural gas generally has a greener footprint, potentially good for the environment as well. But fracking requires a significant amount of water ? up to 5 million gal. (19 million L) per well. That might not be a major problem in a relatively wet state like Pennsylvania, but in bone-dry states like Texas, water-intensive fracking has sparked a backlash. There's also the uncertain risk of water contamination from fracking and drilling, and the problem of water waste. "The rapid expansion of the use of hydraulic fracturing to increase natural gas production has serious potential consequences for local water resources," says Gleick. It's important that "more effort be put into both understanding the real risks and protecting water resources before pushing for accelerated programs of natural gas production."

What we need most of all is a rethink of how we deal with water and a recognition of just how valuable it is ? especially in a warming world. That means focusing on modulating demand as much as increasing supply. Through most of the 20th century, governments dealt with water problems through massive construction projects designed to expand and regulate supply ? think the Hoover Dam near Las Vegas or the Three Gorges Dam in China.

But the era of those big projects may be ending, largely because we've begun to recognize the environmental problems that come with major dams, including the loss of aquatic wildlife and the displacement of local populations. Last month Burma's military government ? not ordinarily responsive to public opinion ? canceled a planned $3.6 billion Chinese-backed hydroelectric dam that would have displaced thousands of villagers. Just as we've recognized that energy efficiency is often the fastest and cheapest way to address carbon emissions, there's much that can be done to curb water waste. We need to "adopt 21st century strategies of new forms of sustainable water supply, rethink water demand and efficiency of use, and [embrace] smart use of pricing and economics," says Gleick. The alternative could mean ending up like poor Tuvalu ? high and dry.

Read about how people in Tucson, Ariz., are saving water.

See photos of the politics of water in Central Asia.

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Ukraine files new charges against Tymoshenko (AP)

KIEV, Ukraine ? Ukraine has filed new criminal charges against imprisoned former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, defying Western pressure to release her.

The State Tax Service said Friday it charged Tymoshenko with concealing $165 million worth of foreign currency revenues, and embezzling and evading taxes worth $5.8 million while she headed an energy company in the mid-1990s. Tymoshenko's office rejects the charges.

Tymoshenko, Ukraine's top opposition leader, was sentenced to seven years in prison last month on charges of overstepping her authority while negotiating a natural gas import contract with Russia in 2009. The U.S. and the West have condemned the verdict as politically motivated.

Tymoshenko is the subject of at least three other criminal investigations.

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Tales from the crypt

Friday, November 11, 2011

The lining of the intestine regenerates itself every few days as compared to say red blood cells that turn over every four months. The cells that help to absorb food and liquid that humans consume are constantly being produced. The various cell types that do this come from stem cells that reside deep in the inner recesses of the accordion-like folds of the intestines, called villi and crypts.

But exactly where the most important stem cell type is located -- and how to identify it -- has been something of a mystery. In fact, two types of intestinal stem cells have been proposed to exist but the relationship between them has been unclear. One type of stem cell divides slowly and resides at the sides of intestinal crypts. The other divides much more quickly and resides at the bottom of the crypts.

Some researchers have been proponents of one type of stem cell or the other as the "true" intestinal stem cell. Recent work published this week in Science from the lab of Jonathan Epstein, MD, chairman of the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, may reconcile this controversy. The findings suggest that these two types of stem cells are related. In fact, each can produce the other, which surprised the researchers.

"We actually began our studies by looking at stem cells in the heart and other organs," Epstein said. "In other tissues in the body, slowly dividing cells can sometimes give rise to more rapidly dividing stem cells that are called to action when tissue regeneration is required. Our finding that this can happen in reverse in the intestine was not expected."

The discovery that rapidly cycling gut stem cells can regenerate the quiescent stem cells -- slowly dividing and probably long-lived -- suggests that the developmental pathways in human organs that regenerate quickly like in the gut, skin, blood, and bone, may be more flexible than previously appreciated.

"This better appreciation and understanding may help us learn how to promote the regeneration of tissue-specific adult stem cells that could subsequently help with tissue regeneration," says Epstein. "It may also help us to understand the cell types that give rise to cancer in the colon and stomach."

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Earnings Scorecard: L-3 Communications - Zacks.com

L-3 Communications Holdings Inc. (LLL - Analyst Report) reported better-than-expected third quarter 2011 results on October 28, 2011. In the quarter, the company reported diluted earnings per share of $2.24, comfortably surpassing the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $2.15 and the year-ago quarterly earnings of $2.07 per share.

In the paragraphs that follow, we cover the recent earnings announcement, subsequent analysts? estimate revisions as well as the Zacks Rank and long-term recommendation for the stock.

Third Quarter Highlights

L-3 Communications? quarterly net sales fell by 1.3% year over year to $3.8 billion, and also missed the Zacks Consensus Estimate by $59 million. Sales performance reflects areas of competitive strength as well as a challenging defense budget environment.

Sales growth from the Command, Control, Communications, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C3ISR) and Electronic Systems segments was offset by lower sales from the Government Services and Aircraft Modernization and Maintenance (AM&M) business wings.

L-3 Communications? Operating income decreased by 7.1% year over year to $406 million. Operating margin contracted 70 basis points to 10.7%. Lower operating margins in the Government Services and Electronic Systems segments were partially countered by higher operating margins for the C3ISR and AM&M segments. Net income also decreased by $3 million year over year to $235 million.

(Read our full coverage on this earnings report: L-3 EPS Beats, Ups View)

Agreement of Analysts

L-3 Communications, following the earnings release, witnessed mixed estimate revision trends for the short and the long term. Over the past month, only 2 analysts (out of 15) revised estimates positively for the ongoing quarter, while 11 revised their estimates downward. The pessimism stems from increased budgetary pressure and funding delays for major contracts like the Joint Cargo Aircraft order.

However the trend reverses from the standpoint of market perception for the company performance evaluated over the whole ongoing fiscal. Over the past month, 11 out of 15 analysts revised their estimates upward for fiscal 2011, with only 2 downward revisions.

Such an upward revision clearly depicts the analysts? optimism about deft handling of its ongoing spin-off of a part of it?s existing Government Services segment. The new public company will be named as Engility and will be a leader in Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA), Training and Operational Support services for the Department of Defense (DoD) and other U.S. Government agencies, as well as civil and international customers. The transaction is slated to finish in mid-2012.

Currently, the Zacks Consensus EPS Estimate for the fourth quarter of 2011 is pegged at $2.45 per share with a projected annual growth of 3.40%. Similarly, for fiscal 2011, the current Zacks Consensus EPS Estimate of $8.79 per share reflects a year-over-year gain of 5.36%.

Magnitude of Estimate Revisions

Mixed market perceptions for L-3 Communications? fortunes for the short term and long term are also reflected in the magnitude of estimate revisions. Near-term road bumps due to lower revenue from major programs led the downtrend for the Zacks Consensus Estimates going forward. The magnitude of revisions from the past month resulted in estimates moving down by five cents to $2.45 for the ongoing quarter.

On the other hand, the current Zacks Consensus Estimates for fiscal 2011 is $8.79. Over the last month, estimates have jumped up by 7 cents fuelled by lower pension headwinds and steady move towards separation of a part of its Government Services segment which in the third quarter reported lower numbers.

Our Take

L-3 Communications stands out among pure defense players by virtue of its non-platform focus, broad diversification of programs, strong order bookings and funded order backlog of $11.5 billion versus $11.1 billion at fiscal end-2010.

Revenue and earnings growth continues to be driven by its strong presence in the current focus areas of C3ISR equipment, precision-guided weapons, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and other electro-mechanical robotic capabilities, networked information technologies, special operations forces and missile defense.

L-3 Communications? strong balance sheet provides financial flexibility in matters of incremental dividend, ongoing share repurchase and earnings accretive acquisitions. As of third quarter-end of 2011, the company had a low long-term debt-to-capitalization of 37.4% (Zacks industry average was 42.4%) with a total long-term debt of $4.1 billion, along with cash holdings of $538 million and an unutilized credit facility close to $990 million.

L-3 Communications? topline is spread over a large number of contracts in process. In fiscal 2010, its largest contract in terms of annual sales was the Army Fleet Support contract with the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command, which accounted for only 3% of its sales. A diversified revenue base insulates the financial performance of the company from any contract-specific risk.

L-3 Communications? presently retains a short-term Zacks #3 Rank, which translates into a short-term Hold rating. We have a long-term Neutral recommendation on the stock. In-lieu of the uncertainty in the movement of the defense budget the sideways stance is consistent with its peers like Raytheon Company (RTN - Analyst Report) and FLIR Systems, Inc. (FLIR - Analyst Report).

About Earnings Estimate Scorecard

Len Zacks, PhD in mathematics from MIT, proved over 30 years ago that earnings estimate revisions are the most powerful force impacting stock prices. He turned this ground breaking discovery into two of the most celebrating stock rating systems in use today. The Zacks Rank for stock trading in a 1 to 3 month time horizon and the Zacks Recommendation for long-term investing (6+ months). These ?Earnings Estimate Scorecard? articles help analyze the important aspects of estimate revisions for each stock after their quarterly earnings announcements. Learn more about earnings estimates and our proven stock ratings at: http://www.zacks.com/education/

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Calories Depend on Food Preparation

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Mice gained more weight eating cooked food than raw food, indicating that preparing the food gives it a higher effective energy value. Sophie Bushwick reports

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Food is the body?s fuel. Now a study finds that the amount of energy in that fuel can depend not just on its calorie content?but on how it?s prepared. And the research, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, could explain an ancient leap in human evolution. [Rachel N. Carmody, Gil S. Weintraub and Richard W. Wrangham, "Energetic consequences of thermal and nonthermal food processing"]

Food?s energy value is usually measured before consumption. But Harvard scientists fed two groups of mice either meat or sweet potatoes and prepared the items differently: either whole or pounded, raw or cooked?to create a variety of diets.

The researchers then measured the mice. They found that pounded meat and potatoes caused more weight gain than raw food. And that cooking increased weight the most.

The extra calories cooking makes available may have allowed the survival of humans with larger bodies and more complex brains, starting almost two million years ago. Those physical changes required more energy, and exposing food to fire may have provided that boost.

Of course, a legacy of evolution is that modern humans often gain too much weight. Which might be called a raw deal.

?Sophie Bushwick

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Poll finds more boomers working past retirement

Susan Webb and her husband Bob hold their dog Max in their West Liberty, Iowa, home, Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2011. An Associated Press-LifeGoesStrong.com poll finds a baby boom generation planning to work into retirement years _ with 73 percent planning to work past retirement, up from 67 percent this spring. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Susan Webb and her husband Bob hold their dog Max in their West Liberty, Iowa, home, Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2011. An Associated Press-LifeGoesStrong.com poll finds a baby boom generation planning to work into retirement years _ with 73 percent planning to work past retirement, up from 67 percent this spring. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Susan Webb stands in the living room of her West Liberty, Iowa, home, Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2011. An Associated Press-LifeGoesStrong.com poll finds a baby boom generation planning to work into retirement years _ with 73 percent planning to work past retirement, up from 67 percent this spring. Webb, 63, one of the 77 million boomers born between 1946 and 1964, had long hoped to retire at 65 from her job as a real estate broker. Not anymore, not since the economic downturn that led to depressed housing prices, wild stock market swings and an unemployment rate hovering at or above 9 percent for all but two months since May 2009. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? So much for kicking back at the lake house, long afternoons of golf or pretty much anything baby boomers had dreamed about in retirement. For many, the plan now calls for logging more hours at the office and renewed worries about money, according to a new poll.

The Associated Press-LifeGoesStrong.com poll found a baby boom generation planning to work into retirement years ? with 73 percent planning to work past retirement, up from 67 percent this spring.

A majority of boomers also are shaky about their nest eggs.

In all, 53 percent of boomers polled said they do not feel confident they'll be able to afford a comfortable retirement. That's up from 44 percent who were concerned about retirement finances in March.

"I'm not confident at all," says 63-year-old Susan Webb of West Liberty, Iowa.

Webb ? one of the 77 million boomers born between 1946 and 1964 ? had long hoped to retire at 65 from her job as a real estate broker. Not anymore, not since the economic downturn that led to depressed housing prices, wild stock market swings and an unemployment rate hovering at or above 9 percent for all but two months since May 2009.

Webb and her husband, who's 67, are both still working full time. They hope to ratchet back to part time at some point, but plans for a scenic lake house where they can go fishing and spend time with their two grandchildren will likely mean selling their current home ? not part of the original plan.

At 50, Cheri Hubbs of Norfolk, Va., is on the younger side of the boomer spectrum. Even so, she knows she'll work in retirement.

"I just feel like I'm going to work until the day I die," says Hubbs, an administrative assistant.

Hubbs had little saved for retirement when she went to see a financial planner a few years ago. Now, she and her husband are socking away as much money as they can. She's also cut back drastically on her little luxuries ? trips to the nail salon and Starbucks.

In the poll, 41 percent of boomers said they are expecting to have to scale back their lifestyle in some way in retirement and 31 percent believe they will struggle financially.

Retirement expert Olivia Mitchell says working longer and cutting back are two practical ways for boomers to save more.

"It's a kind of downscaled consumer society that I see in the next five years at least," said Mitchell, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and executive director of the Pension Research Council. "Consume less and tighten the belt."

Downsizing is part of the plan for software designer Greg Schmidt of Carlisle, Mass.

Schmidt, 53, says there's no doubt he'll be working longer, likely into his 70s. With a daughter in high school and twin 12-year-old boys, he's got college tuitions to worry about as well as an aging father and father-in-law.

He plans one day to move to a smaller home, maybe in the mountains of Vermont. Almost one-quarter of boomers in the poll ? 23 percent ? said retirement will mean they'll have to move.

For Schmidt, the stock market is another source of anxiety.

"I am most concerned that we're going to be entering a different time and equities aren't quite as valued," he said. "I am afraid I'm a little heavy into equities."

The span between the two AP-LifeGoesStrong.com polls coincided with a 10 percent drop in the Dow Jones industrial average, which recovered most of those losses by climbing this week to above 12,000 before plunging again Wednesday amid concerns about Europe's debt crisis.

In all, 62 percent of the boomers polled lost money on at least one of four core parts of retirement savings:

?A workplace retirement savings plan, 42 percent.

?Personal investments outside of an IRA/workplace savings, 41 percent.

?An IRA (individual retirement account), 32 percent.

?Real estate, 29 percent.

The AP-LifeGoesStrong.com poll was conducted Oct. 5-12 by Knowledge Networks of Palo Alto, Calif. It involved online interviews with 1,095 baby boomers, as well as companion interviews with an additional 315 adults of other age groups. The survey has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.6 percentage points for baby boomers and 4.8 percentage points for all adults.

Knowledge Networks used traditional telephone and mail sampling methods to randomly recruit respondents. People selected who had no Internet access were given it for free.

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AP Polling Director Trevor Tompson, Deputy Polling Director Jennifer Agiesta and News Survey Specialist Dennis Junius contributed to this report.

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Poll results: http://surveys.ap.org

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Web portal Sina posts $336 million quarterly loss (AP)

BEIJING ? Sina Corp., a popular Chinese web portal operator, sank to a loss in the latest quarter due to writedowns on investments in two online businesses but revenues and microblog traffic were up.

The Beijing-based company said Wednesday it lost $336.3 million for the three months ended Sept. 30, or $5.10 per share. Revenue rose 20 percent from a year earlier to $130.3 million.

Sina said most of the loss was due to its decision to write down the value of investments in China Real Estate Information Corp. and online clothing retailer Mecox Lane Ltd. by a total of $281.2 million.

Advertising revenue rose 25 percent to $101 million.

Sina's popular microblog, Weibo.com, has seen "rapid growth of new users," CEO Charles Chao said in a statement. He gave no details.

"Our focus now turns to adding more social networking features to Weibo to increase user stickiness," Chao said.

China has the world's most populous Internet market with more than 485 million people online as of the end of June.

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