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Monday, December 31, 2012
The Year in Review ? Favorite gadgets of The Gadgeteer team in 2012
2012 was a busy year for The Gadgeteer. We published a total of 2006 articles of which 411 were reviews. That is a lot of product reviews my friends. The bulk of that work would NOT have been possible without my hardworking gadget crazed team of writers. We all thought it would be interesting to [...]
Four planets in 'habitable zones' spotted within spitting distance of Earth
Astronomers say they used a new statistical technique to find four possible super-Earths orbiting in the habitable zone of two stars within 22 light-years of Earth, Gliese 667C and tau Ceti.
This diagram shows an artist's rendering comparing our own solar system to Kepler-22, a star system containing the first 'habitable zone' planet discovered by NASA's Kepler mission. The 'habitable zone' is a region where under the right conditions, liquid water can form stable pools on the surface.
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Three of those candidate planets are among a tightly packed clutch of five that orbit Gliese 667C, part of a triple-star system 22 light-years away in the constellation Scorpius. The other possible planet is one of five orbiting tau Ceti, a sun-like star 12 light-years away in the constellation Cetus.
Taken together, the detections not only add to accumulating evidence that planets look to be more common than stars ? and that planets in habitable zones could be more common than previously thought, some of researchers reporting the finds say.
The finds also illustrate the power of improved statistical tools to boldly uncover candidate planets where no planet had been found before.
The evidence for these candidate planets requires independent confirmation, the researchers caution.?Still, the tools represent "a real breakthrough," says Steven Vogt, an astronomer at the University of California at Santa Cruz and a member of the team reporting the results for tau Ceti. The approach the team took leaves only about one chance in 3 million that the detections could herald something other than a planet.
Since the mid-1990s, astronomers have bagged more than 850 extra-solar planets. The ultimate goal is to find rocky planets with Earth-like masses orbiting within their stars' habitable zones ? a region where under the right conditions, liquid water can form stable pools on the surface. Liquid water is considered an essential ingredient for organic life.
Different groups of astronomers had aimed three telescopes for various lengths of time at tau Ceti and found nothing. Led by Mikko Tuomi at the University of Hertfordshire in Britain, the team reporting this latest analysis applied relatively new statistical tools to the combined data from these telescopes.
The result: "Five planets came out: boom, boom, boom, boom, boom ... as clear as a bell," Dr. Vogt says.
Tau Ceti has about 78 percent of our own sun's mass, but its composition is quite similar, Dr. Tuomi's team reports. Its candidate planets range from 2 to 6.6 times Earth's mass.
The innermost object orbits the star once every 14 days, while the outermost takes 642 days to make its circuit. The fourth planet from the star, with a 168-day orbit, travels well within a zone where liquid water could remain stable on the planet's surface, the team estimates. However, the results don't speak directly to what the planets are made of.?
A similar story has played out for Philip Gregory, an astronomer at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Previous researchers had found two planets orbiting Gliese 667C, a red dwarf with 31 percent of the sun's mass. Using a broadly similar statistical approach, he reports detecting the initial two, plus three more planets. Three of the five fall within the star's habitable zone, he estimates.
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Former NBA player Jerome Whitehead found dead
Jerome Whitehead, who stared in college at Marquette and went on to have a 12-year NBA career, has died.
He was found dead in his home in El Cajon, Calif;, (near San Diego) back on Dec. 20, reports the Chicago Tribune and multiple other outlets. He was discovered by his sister and apparently had been passed away for a little while, according to the report.
An autopsy found that Whitehead had died from a gastrointestinal hemorrhage related to chronic alcohol abuse, an investigator at the examiner?s office said.
Whitehead was a 6?10 center (and occasional forward) who was drafted in the second round of the 1978 draft by the then San Diego Clippers and went on to play for Utah, Dallas, Golden State and San Antonio. He averaged 6.5 points and 4.8 rebounds a game. In the 1981-82 season he averaged 13.8 points a game for the San Diego Clippers.
Whitehead was a key part of Marquette?s 1977 national championship team.
Source: http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/12/30/former-nba-player-jerome-whitehead-found-dead/
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Friday, December 21, 2012
The best-laid plans: How we update our goals based on new information
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Humans are adept at setting goals and updating them as new situations arise ? for example, a person who is playing a video game may switch to a new goal when their phone rings.
Now, Princeton University researchers have identified mechanisms that govern how the brain incorporates information about new situations into our existing goals, according to research recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
Using brain scans of human volunteers, researchers at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute (PNI) found that updating goals takes place in a region known as the prefrontal cortex, and appears to involve signals associated with the brain chemical dopamine. When the researchers used a magnetic pulse to interrupt activity in that region of the brain, the volunteers became unable to switch to a new task when playing a game requiring them to push a button after seeing letters pop up on a screen.
"We have found a fundamental mechanism that contributes to the brain's ability to concentrate on one task and then flexibly switch to another task," said Jonathan Cohen, Princeton's Robert Bendheim and Lynn Bendheim Thoman Professor in Neuroscience and co-director of PNI. "Impairments in this system are central to many critical disorders of cognitive function such as those observed in schizophrenia and obsessive-compulsive disorder."
Cohen worked with lead author Kimberlee D'Ardenne, who earned her Ph.D. in chemistry and neuroscience from Princeton in 2008 and is now a postdoctoral associate at Virginia Tech; Neir Eshel, a graduate student at Harvard Medical School who conducted the research as an undergraduate as part of his Princeton senior thesis; Joseph Luka, a medical student at Tulane University School of Medicine; Agatha Lenartowicz, a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California-Los Angeles; and Leigh Nystrom, co-director of the Neuroscience Cognitive Control Laboratory at PNI.
Existing research has shown that when new information is used to update a task, behavior or goal, this information is held in a type of short-term memory storage known as working memory. Investigators did not know, however, what mechanisms were involved in updating this information.
To find out, Cohen's team used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to scan the brains of human volunteers playing a game wherein they pressed a specific button depending on a particular visual cue. If the volunteer saw the letter A prior to seeing the letter X, he or she had to press button 1. But if the volunteer saw the letter B prior to seeing the X, the participant had to press button 2. The A and B served as the new information that the participant used to update their goal of deciding which button to press. Another version of the task required the same participants to press button 1 upon seeing an X regardless of whether an A or B was shown.
With the fMRI, the researchers detected activity in the right prefrontal cortex during tasks that required the participants to remember whether they saw an A or a B before pressing the correct button, but not during tasks where the participant only had to press the button when prompted by an X.
These results confirmed findings from a previous study led by Cohen and published in the journal Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience in 2010 that used another scanning method to gauge the timing of the brain activity. Using electroencephalography (EEG), the researchers found that the prefrontal cortex showed a spike in brain electrical activity 150 milliseconds after the participant viewed the context letter A or B.
For the current study, the researchers demonstrated that the prefrontal cortex is indeed the area of the brain involved with updating working memory by sending a short magnetic pulse to the region. This pulse disrupted cortex activity at the precise time ? as revealed by the EEG ? the researchers suspected that the prefrontal cortex was updating working memory. When the researchers introduced the pulse to the right side of prefrontal cortex about 150 milliseconds after the volunteers saw the A or B, the participants were unable to press the correct buttons, Cohen said.
"We predicted that if the pulse was delivered to the part of the right prefrontal cortex observed using fMRI, and at the time when the brain is updating its information as revealed by EEG, then the subject would not retain the information about A and B, interfering with his or her performance on the button-pushing task," Cohen said.
Finally, the researchers explored their theory that dopamine ? a naturally occurring chemical involved in motivation and reward among other brain functions ? tags new information entering the prefrontal cortex as important for updating working memory and goals. Cohen and his team imaged a brain region called the midbrain, which contains clusters of nerve cells called dopaminergic nuclei that are the source of most of the dopamine signals in the brain. Using high-resolution fMRI, the researchers probed the activity of these dopamine-releasing cells in the brains of volunteers engaged in the game described above. The researchers found that the brain activity in these areas correlated both with the activity in the right prefrontal cortex and with the ability of the volunteers to press the correct buttons.
"The remarkable part was that the dopamine signals correlated both with the behavior of our volunteers and their brain activity in the prefrontal cortex," Cohen said. "This constellation of findings provides strong evidence that the dopaminergic nuclei are enabling the prefrontal cortex to hold on to information that is relevant for updating behavior, but not information that isn't."
David Badre, a Brown University assistant professor of cognitive, linguistic and psychological sciences, said that the work is an important step forward in understanding how working memory is updated. Badre is familiar with the work but had no role in it.
In a commentary published online Nov. 9 by PNAS, Badre wrote:"The mechanisms by which the brain achieves an adaptive balance between flexibility and stability remain the basis of much current investigation in cognitive neuroscience. These results provide a basis for new investigations into the neural mechanisms of flexible, goal-directed behavior."
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Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Doomsday real estate: Homes ideal for 12.21.12, revisited | MNN ...
Doomsday real estate: Homes ideal for 12.21.12, revisited
With an onslaught of alien invasions, asteroids and earthquakes predicted to come our way at the end of the week, now's as good a time as any to peruse a few homes fit for the end of days.
Tue, Dec 18 2012 at 1:20 PM
At the start of the Gregorian Calendar year, I wrangled up a few eco- and apocalypse-friendly homes, both real (and for sale!) and conceptual, in anticipation of the expiration of the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar. Or, as it?s better known, December 12, 2012. And in case you didn?t get the memo, December 12 is this Friday. Three days away. Oh, how time flies when you?re super-busy prepping for end times! Or not.?
That said, I figured it would be fitting to republish my initial post from earlier this year to once again highlight a few pieces of real estate ideal for riding out alien invasions, massive earthquakes, solar storms, geomagnetic reversals, erupting supervolcanoes, and catastrophic collisions with meteorites and/or rogue Sumerian planets. I've also added a handful of newbies ? floating passivehouses! private islands! SSIP construction!???to the mix. And I said it before and I?ll say it again: Most, but not all, of the below homes were designed specifically with safety, security, and self-sufficiency in mind and/or to withstand some pretty extreme weather. But when Planet X is hurling towards Earth with a spaceship filled with aliens from the Zeta Reticuli?star system trailing not too far behind, I don't think a solar-powered concrete palace in the Ozarks will do anyone much good.?
This past year, I featured numerous noteworthy home conversion projects. My favorites? It?s a tossup between this school bus-turned-tiny home?and this decomissioned water tower?in?London. However, when it comes to doomsday-friendliness, Silohome, an upstate New York residence partially built deep (as far as 185 feet below the Earth?s surface) into a decommissioned Atlas-F intercontinental ballistic missile silo, wins top prize. And if you truly believe that Dec. 21 will be rough going, you?re in luck: this ?unparalleled 3,900-square-foot subterranean luxury estate with Cold War flair? is currently on the market for?Again, it?s rather uncertain what exactly will go down this Friday aside from Winter Solstice (my totally wild prediction: nothing). But here?s a remarkable home ??a solar-powered, rainwater-collecting two-bedroom abode built from steel structural insulated panels and designed by two Tulane architecture professors ? constructed to withstand whatever nasty, potentially catastrophic events Mother Nature just happens to throw at it: hurricane-force winds, 8.0-magnitude earthquakes, floods, wildfires, tornados, you name it.?Plus, it?s termite-proof and mold- and mildew-resistant. And there's an outdoor shower on the front porch!
So yeah ? some guy in northeast China is building a 65-foot ark that he plans to hop aboard once Friday?s (anticipated) biblical flooding hits the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Or he was building the ark until he ran out of my money. Anyways, I?m much more partial to Autark, an IKEA-furnished, self-sustaining floating home out of the Netherlands that?s built to stringent Passivhaus standards (it?s currently moored in one of my favorite cities on the planet). It looks like there's space for a couple of (domesticated) critters on there, too.??
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Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Chinese Cooking Method
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Chinese Cooking Method
Karlie BestlerIf you are hungry and looking for a great quick meal, your search for fast food can end with a delicious Chinese cooking method. The Chinese cooking methods are the most sought cooking methods for fast food cuisines all over the world and have been accepted for their taste and easy preparation.
Chinese cooking dishes are prepared with different Chinese cooking methods like stir frying, steaming, boiling and sauteing. Among the different activities of Chinese cooking methods, frying is one of the prime methods that includes quick frying, deep frying, stir frying and slippery frying.
The common food ingredients used and fried using these Chinese cooking methods are noodles, fried rice, chicken bites and shrimp. Usually other methods involve chicken and vegetables cut into small pieces and then stir fried to serve with rice and noodles.
Another key activity of Chinese cooking methods is sauteing, which is sometimes referred to as shallow cooking. In this Chinese cooking method, food is fried in a thin layer of oil to prevent unnecessary greasiness and extra calories in food. For this method of frying, the meat or vegetables are cut into very thin slices so that it can be cooked easily. The food is then cooked until they become light brown colored and finally seasoned with spices and seasonings.
Another of the popular Chinese cooking methods is stewing. This type of Chinese cooking method is where the food is cut into very thin slices or chunks and stir fried until the are done on the out side of the food. The inside of the food is kept raw to retain the nutritious values. Sauce can be poured on those pieces and simmered over low flame to ensure the food gets cooked thoroughly. The added sauce is thickened while simmering which gives it a good texture and adds flavoring to the food.
Boiling and simmering food is also one of the very popular and commonly used Chinese cooking methods. In boiling, the pot containing a large amount of water is used for boiling meat, vegetables, rice or noodles. Sauce can also be added to the food while boiling so that the food comes out tender and with a good flavor.
Whereas in simmering, the food is cooked under boiling water in a large pot that is heated over a low flame for a longer time. Of the Chinese cooking methods, this is considered to be the healthiest as it does not involve the use of oil, so the addition of extra calories is avoided altogether.
Bringing all activities together, Chinese cooking methods give you an excellent combination of fast food and healthy food, which makes Chinese cooking and eating both an absolute delight.
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Genetic manipulation of urate alters neurodegeneration in mouse model of Parkinson's disease
Genetic manipulation of urate alters neurodegeneration in mouse model of Parkinson's disease
Tuesday, December 18, 2012A study by Massachusetts General Hospital researchers adds further support to the possibility that increasing levels of the antioxidant urate may protect against Parkinson's disease. In their report published in PNAS Early Edition, the investigators report that mice with a genetic mutation increasing urate levels were protected against the kind of neurodegeneration that underlies Parkinson's disease, while the damage was worse in animals with abnormally low urate.
"These results strengthen the rationale for investigating whether elevating urate in people with Parkinson's can slow progression of the disease," says Xiqun Chen, MD, PhD, of the MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases (MGH-MIND) and lead author of the PNAS report. "Our study is the first demonstration in an animal model that genetic elevation of urate can protect dopamine neurons from degeneration and that lowering urate can conversely exacerbate neurodegeneration."
Characterized by tremors, rigidity, difficulty walking and other symptoms, Parkinson's disease is caused by destruction of brain cells that produce the neurotransmitter dopamine. Healthy people whose urate levels are at the high end of the normal range have been found to be at reduced risk of developing Parkinson's disease. Studies led by Michael Schwarzschild, MD, PhD, director of Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory at MGH-MIND, showed that, among Parkinson's patients, symptoms appear to progress more slowly in those with higher urate levels. These observations led Schwarzschild and his colleagues to develop the SURE-PD (Safety of URate Elevation in Parkinson's Disease) clinical trial, conducted at sites across the country through the support of the Michael J. Fox Foundation. Expected in early 2013, the results of SURE-PD will determine whether a medication that elevates urate levels should be tested further for its ability to slow the progression of disability in Parkinson's disease.
The current study by Schwarzschild's team was designed to improve understanding of how urate protects against neurodegeneration. As in most animals, mice normally have very low levels of the antioxidant because it is broken down by the enzyme urate oxidase or uricase. The higher urate levels seen in humans and great apes were caused by inactivation of the uricase gene during primate evolution. The MGH-MIND team used two strains of genetically altered mice. In one, the gene for uricase is knocked out as it is in humans, increasing urate levels in the blood and brain; in the other strain, the gene is overexpressed, reducing urate levels even lower than usual for mice. Animals from both strains were used in a standard Parkinson's modeling procedure in which a neurotoxin is injected into the dopamine-producing brain cells on one side of the brain.
As expected, the brains of animals with genetically elevated urate levels showed significantly less damage from the neurotoxin injection than did the brains of genetically normal mice. The damage was increased even more in the mice with genetically reduced urate levels, which also exhibited reduced dopamine production and worsened movement abnormalities. The researchers confirmed that genetically altering uricase expression did not affect levels of other molecules in the metabolic pathway that includes urate, supporting attribution of the protective role to urate alone.
"The biology of urate in the brain is largely unexplored," says Schwarzschild, an associate professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School. "Understanding both urate's mechanisms of protection and the way its levels are regulated in the body will help us determine how to better harness its protective effects, if they are substantiated. We now are searching for the mediators of urate's neuroprotection and beginning to explore how it is generated and transported in different brain cells."
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Woman loses 'ruined wedding' lawsuit against Stonepine Estate
A woman who sued a Carmel Valley ranch claiming it ruined her daughter's "dream wedding" lost her case last week.
Ladan Lynn Nazarian of Burlingame said Stonepine Estate failed to prepare for rain at the October 2010 wedding. The estate said it repeatedly tried to get her to order a tent.
Monterey County Superior Court Judge Tom Wills sided with the estate.
"It was as much of a slam dunk win for Stonepine as you can imagine," Stonepine's Monterey attorney, Michael Masuda, said.
Nazarian asked the $80,000 paid for the wedding be refunded, $100,000 in unspecified damages and $150,000 in emotional distress. She got nothing.
"I'm extremely disappointed the court could not see through the lies," Nazarian said. She declined to say what the lies were.
Nazarian had claimed in her suit that the wedding was ruined when 250 people had to be crammed into a greenhouse and guests were served cold food.
The truth, according Masuda and Stonepine owner Gordon Hentschel, was much different.
Stonepine told Nazarian a month before the wedding it thought she should order a tent, but she declined because she did not want the extra cost, Masuda said.
Then, three or four days before the wedding, weather reports started looking "sketchy" and Stonepine asked again, to no avail, he said.
Finally, on the day before the wedding, with weather reports indicating it may rain, they again asked Nazarian, but she refused.
"They can't force her to get
a tent," Masuda said.When it rained, Stonepine moved the party into a building they use for so-called country weddings.
Masuda said the estate could have just told them to have the wedding in the rain ? instead Stonepine's staff "worked really hard and was willing to put on the wedding, and dinner and reception."
Hentschel said he's probably been asked about the lawsuit more than 200 times the past two years but was unsure if it affected his business.
"That's the only negative we've ever had," he said of stories about the lawsuit. "Yes, it probably took a toll, but we'll never know how much."
Hentschel said his celebrity guests never complained about their stays.
Andre Agassi and Brooke Shields were married there in 1997 and Bill Gates, Clint Eastwood, The Rolling Stones, Jim Carey and former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger have stayed at the estate.
Phillip Molnar can be reached at 646-4487 or pmolnar@montereyherald.com
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Next-Gen Tegra 4 Mobile Processor Details Leaks, Brings 6X Graphics Power Of Tegra 3 With Less Power Draw
Nvidia's next-generation mobile processor could be a 72-core graphics powerhouse, according to leaded specs reportedly uncovered by Chinese site Chiphell. The specs for the Tegra 4 processor, codenamed Wayne (a designation we've heard before), detail a 4-plus-1 battery saving quad core design like that used in the current Tegra 3 processors. It should help Android devices get even better at gaming and media applications, while conserving battery life.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/5Y8PUtnd6x0/
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Thursday, December 13, 2012
Pete Rose's TLC reality show gets premiere date
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Pete Rose will take to the same playing field as Honey Boo Boo next month.
The former baseball great's reality series, "Pete Rose: Hits & Mrs." has been given a six-episode order from TLC, and will premiere Monday, January 14 at 10 p.m., the network said Tuesday.
The series will follow the 71-year-old Rose - who's been permanently barred from baseball due to gambling - and his new fiancee, former "Playboy" model Kiana Kim and their assemblage of kids from previous marriages. As the couple moves closer to marriage, they face various struggles: Will Rose's kids learn to accept the age difference between their dad and stepmom-to-be? Can Rose, who lives and works in Las Vegas, manage a long-distance relationship with Kiana, who lives in Los Angeles?
But perhaps the biggest question revolving around the series: How much indignity must Rose endure before he's welcomed back into the public's good graces?
"Pete Rose: Hits & Mrs." is produced for TLC by Creature Films, which seems appropriate, with Mark Ford and Kevin Lopez executive-producing.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/pete-roses-tlc-reality-show-gets-premiere-date-201541965.html
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Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Words have feelings
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Does the emotion in our voice have a lasting effect? According to Annett Schirmer and colleagues from the National University of Singapore, emotion helps us recognize words quicker and more accurately straight away. In the longer term however, we do not remember emotionally intoned speech as accurately as neutral speech. When we do remember the words, they have acquired an emotional value; for example words spoken in a sad voice are remembered as more negative than words spoken in a neutral voice.
The study, looking at the role of emotion in word recognition memory, is published online in Springer's journal, Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience.
In anger, sadness, exhilaration or fear, speech takes on an urgency that is lacking from its normal even-tempered form. It becomes louder or softer, more hurried or delayed, more melodic, erratic or monotonous. And this emotional speech immediately captures a listener's attention. Schirmer and colleagues' work looks at whether emotion has a lasting effect on word memory.
A total of 48 men and 48 women listened to sadly and neutrally spoken words and were later shown these words in a visual test, examining word recognition and attitudes to these words. The authors also measured brain activity to look for evidence of vocal emotional coding.
Their analyses showed that participants recognized words better when they had previously heard them in the neutral tone compared with the sad tone. In addition, words were remembered more negatively if they had previously been heard in a sad voice.
The researchers also looked at gender differences in word processing. They found that women were more sensitive to the emotional elements than men, and were more likely than men to recall the emotion of the speaker's voice. Current levels of the female sex hormone estrogen predicted these differences.
Schirmer and team conclude: "Emotional voices produce changes in long-term memory, as well as capturing the listener's attention. They influence how easily spoken words are later recognized and what emotions are assigned to them. Thus voices, like other emotional signals, affect listeners beyond the immediate present."
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Exxon: US energy revival has staying power
FILE - In this April 16, 2010 file photo, steam rises from towers at an Exxon Mobil refinery in Baytown, Texas. Exxon says the energy renaissance in the U.S. will continue and predicts that North America will become a net exporter of oil and gas by the middle of the next decade. The oil and gas giant?s latest long-term energy outlook, released Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012, says the rapid growth of production in the U.S., Canada along with improved energy efficiency will lead to more oil and gas being sent overseas. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan. File)
FILE - In this April 16, 2010 file photo, steam rises from towers at an Exxon Mobil refinery in Baytown, Texas. Exxon says the energy renaissance in the U.S. will continue and predicts that North America will become a net exporter of oil and gas by the middle of the next decade. The oil and gas giant?s latest long-term energy outlook, released Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012, says the rapid growth of production in the U.S., Canada along with improved energy efficiency will lead to more oil and gas being sent overseas. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan. File)
NEW YORK (AP) ? Exxon says the energy renaissance in the U.S. will continue and predicts that North America will become a net exporter of oil and gas by the middle of the next decade.
The oil and gas giant's latest long-term energy outlook, released Tuesday, says the rapid growth of production in the U.S. and Canada, along with improved energy efficiency, will lead to more oil and gas being sent overseas.
Exxon Mobil Corp.'s annual outlook is noted by investors and policymakers, and the company says its conclusions shape its decisions about where to invest. The main conclusions dovetail with recent forecasts from the U.S. government and others.
Among the main themes from Exxon's report
? Demand for energy will grow worldwide, but slower than the overall economy because of efficiency gains.
? Energy demand will remain flat in the developed world; nearly all of the growth in demand will occur in developing countries.
? The biggest shift will be growth in the use of natural gas and a decline in the use of coal. By 2025, natural gas is expected to overtake coal as the second most used fuel, after oil.
? Oil and gas production in the U.S. and Canada will continue to grow so rapidly that the region will switch from a net importer of energy to a net exporter by 2025. The U.S. will likely be exporting natural gas in large volumes by then, and producing more oil while consuming less. Canada will continue to be a major crude exporter.
While Exxon does make assumptions about energy prices to make its predictions, it does not disclose what those price assumptions are.
Oil and gas production in the U.S. has surged thanks to the combination of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, and horizontal drilling that allows companies to tap hydrocarbons trapped in shale and other tight rock formations. As a result, natural gas prices have plummeted and the nation's dependence on oil imports has been dramatically reduced.
The International Energy Agency and the U.S. Energy Department's Energy Information Administration have also highlighted the North American oil and gas boom in recent reports. The IEA said last month that the U.S. could overtake Saudi Arabia as the world's top crude producer by 2020.
But fracking has raised environmental concerns. Opponents say drilling fluid or wastewater can seep into water supplies if wells are not constructed properly or if wastewater is not disposed of properly.
Exxon's report predicts that the use of electricity will grow quickly ? about 1.3 billion people worldwide do not yet have access to it. But electricity demand in the developed world will remain about flat as devices and appliances get more efficient.
The way electricity will be produced will continue to shift. The use of natural gas, nuclear and renewables will grow and the use of coal will decline. Wind, solar and biofuels will grow the fastest, at 5.8 percent per year. But still by 2040 they will contribute only 3 percent of the world's energy needs.
The growth in natural gas's contribution to the world energy mix will be the most pronounced, according to Exxon's outlook. This view led Exxon to place a big bet on natural gas when spent about $31 billion to buy XTO Energy in 2009, a price that analysts now say was much too high. But Exxon's rivals such as Chevron Corp. and Royal Dutch Shell are also leaning more heavily on natural gas.
Still, Exxon says there will be plenty of oil left to power cars, trucks and planes. By 2040 less than half of the world's recoverable oil will have been produced, Exxon's report predicts.
Oil will remain the dominant transportation fuel, allowing demand to grow almost 1 percent a year. Demand for fuel to power heavy trucks will grow fastest, while demand for passenger car fuel will peak worldwide in 2020 as fuel efficiency gains offset the larger number of cars on the road. Worldwide, average passenger car fuel economy will rise to 47 miles per gallon by 2040, up from 27 now. Hybrids will outsell conventional gasoline cars by then, Exxon says.
Worldwide emissions of carbon dioxide from energy sources will peak in about 2030. From there, worldwide emissions will gradually decline as transportation fuel economy improves and coal use declines. In the U.S., emissions per person will decline dramatically over the period, but the typical American in 2040 will still emit far more carbon dioxide than the typical Asian or European.
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FIRST LOOK: Meet Drew Barrymore's Baby Girl!
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Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Nine charged after fracas at Manchester Derby
Nine people have been charged by Manchester police after late match unrest yesterday at the Etihad Stadium. Although the person who threw the coin that struck Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand has yet to be identified, others have been charged with racially aggravated public order offenses, pitch encroachment, breaching banning orders, or?drunk and disorderly conduct.
And perhaps the best part, their names and ages have been printed in the national papers. At least the people of Manchester know which idiots caused yesterday?s chaos.
As soccer matches go, the chaos was rather mild. That didn?t make it any more?palatable. After Robin van Persie?s stoppage top restart was deflected into Joe Hart?s net, Manchester City?s home crowd caused a small delay in the match. People invading the playing field drew the attention of security and Hart, who physically confronted one frightened fan as he approached Ferdinand. As Ferdinand celebrated, a coin from the crowd his him above the left eye, requiring his trainer?s attention as blood streamed down the defender?s face.
The spectacle has drawn critique from higher ups in the English game. Professional Footballer?s Association chief executive Gordon Taylor, as told to BBC Radio 5 Live:
?I think you?ve got to give consideration to possibly, as has been suggested, some netting in vulnerable areas, be it behind the goals and round the corner flags.?
Football Association chairmen David Bernstein:
?It is deplorable to see those incidents and to see Rio Ferdinand with blood on his face is absolutely terrible.
?I think it?s disturbing that we?re seeing a recurrence of these types of incidents. We?ve had racial abuse issues, the odd pitch incursion, things being thrown at players ? it?s very unacceptable and has to be dealt with severely.?
The indignation?s predictable, and the words are nice, but the issue goes deeper than nets. It?s easy to point to other sports leagues and cultures and say ?they don?t have these problems,? but that doesn?t make it any less constructive. Why is this a problem in one environment and not in others?
The sad fact is that this type of behavior has been permitted to be part of the game in too many places. Perfunctory words from executives when the dark cloud rises does little to change the culture. ?Nor does noting things have improved over the last couple of decades. Just because things were worse before doesn?t mean they shouldn?t be better now.
There needs to be a more concerted, persistent, and aggressive push to make clear what is acceptable behavior at soccer grounds. The effort needs to be proactive, not reactive. Until that happens, it?s hard to see the English game as anything more than mildly concerned about problems like Sunday?s.
Source: http://prosoccertalk.nbcsports.com/2012/12/10/nine-charged-after-unrest-at-manchester-derby/related
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Sunday, December 9, 2012
Steven Finn believes England stuck to the plan on day-four ? Cricket ...
Steven Finn believes England stuck to the plan on day-four ? Cricket News Update
England pacer, Steven Finn, has said that England stuck to the plan while bowling against India?which?helped them secure a position from where losing the match would require an insipid performance on the final day of the third Test at Eden Gardens, Kolkata.
Finn, who took three for 37 on Saturday, while giving an interview after the end of the day?s play said, "It was hard for us to get that first wicket but we stuck to our guns and we stuck to the plans we have worked towards in the series and that paid off. At lunch we said that we needed to up it a bit. We needed to focus on how we wanted to get the batsmen out."
?If we win tomorrow we will only be 2-1 up in the series, and going into the fourth Test it's important that we have no complacency, and keep working, keep looking to get better. The great point about this England side is that we are always looking to get better," he added.
He, however, admitted that breaking the first partnership between Gautam Gambhir and V Sehwag was hard and after that it was an easy journey for the tourists.
Praising spinner Graeme Swann, who drew first blood on Saturday, Finn said, ?That ball from Swanney was an excellent one. That sort of kick-started us into the session.?
He added that England worked well as a team on Saturday which helped them deny a team like India to score big or even stay on the wicket long enough to take the game towards a draw.
India, who have secured a lead by only 32 runs, are nine wickets down, and it would require something out of this world to stop England from taking the final wicket, which would probably give the English a reachable total to chase after.
The way India bowled in their first innings means they lack the firepower to bowl-out England while defending a small target.
England players would sleep well tonight as they can already smell a win tomorrow. This win will give them a lead by 2-1 in the four-match Test series.
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The '9-1-1' scooter and other worst toys for Christmas
This year?s list of the worst toys includes those that assault your senses and those that assault your sanity. From annoying, noisy toys that you want to hurl against the wall to just plain scary ones, this list may leave you wondering if aliens ? or worse, teens ? have taken over research and development at the toy companies. Some of these items might make perfect gifts ? for that niece or nephew who lives far, far away. Can you guess the worst toy of 2012?
The Minnie Mouse Bow-tique Sing & Stroll Musical Purse lets kids sound like Minnie Mouse, a high-pitched squeal that qualifies this toy as one of our Top 8 worst toys for Christmas. (Leanne Shirtliffe)
8. Minnie Mouse Bow-tique Sing & Stroll Musical Purse
One of our Top 8 worst toys for Christmas ? and winner of our?Noisy Award?? is this Disney Junior portable stereo disguised as a purse. Not only does the Sing & Stroll Musical Purse come with the loudest, most annoying Minnie Mouse songs, but children can also ?Minnie-Mouse-ify? their voices, giving them that high pitched squeal that makes parents search for mouse traps. If that isn?t enough, the daisy-shaped microphone can break, which ? come to think of it ? may not be a bad thing, except for the fact that parents have spent $29.99 on it.
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