M 3.0, Southern California

Magnitude3.0Date-TimeLocation32.658?N, 115.956?WDepth5 km (3.1 miles)RegionSOUTHERN CALIFORNIADistances
  • 10 km (6 miles) SSE (157?) from Ocotillo, CA
  • 22 km (14 miles) ENE (78?) from Jacumba Hot Springs, CA
  • 29 km (18 miles) WSW (239?) from Seeley, CA
  • 40 km (25 miles) WSW (249?) from El Centro, CA
  • 101 km (63 miles) E (82?) from Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico
Location Uncertaintyhorizontal +/- 0.5 km (0.3 miles); depth +/- 1.1 km (0.7 miles)ParametersNph= 78, Dmin=11 km, Rmss=0.41 sec, Gp=184?,
M-type=local magnitude (ML), Version=0SourceEvent IDci11047285

Source: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/ci11047285.php

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Iran Declares Its Ready To Expand Military Ties ... - Business Insider

A week after U.S. forces pulled out of Iraq, Iran has announced its willingness to expand its military and security links with Baghdad.

The AFP reports Iranian General Hassan Firouzabadi praised the "forced departure" of U.S. troops, saying it ""was due to the resistance and determination of the Iraqi people and the government."

The statements were made in messages Firouzabadi sent to his Iraqi counterpart, Lieutenant General Babaker Zebari, and to Iraq's acting defence minister, Saadun Al Dulaimi, Irna said. The departure of the US troops "was due to the resistance and determination of the Iraqi people and government," he said.

"I hope the humiliating failure of the United States after nine years of occupying Iraq will serve as a lesson for them to never think of attacking another country," he said. Firouzabadi added that Iran was now "ready to expand its military and security ties with Iraq."

Zebari took a group of Iraqi military chiefs to Iran a few weeks ago to look into the possibility of increasing cooperation between the militaries.

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/iran-declares-its-ready-to-expand-military-ties-with-iraq-2011-12

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Best iPhone Apps of 2011

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Source: topics.nytimes.com --- Friday, December 23, 2011
A handful of noteworthy apps for the iPhone were introduced this year. ...

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/22/technology/personaltech/some-new-little-treasures-for-the-iphone.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

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The devil's in the details of a Giotto fresco

Art restorers have discovered the figure of a devil hidden in the clouds of one of the most famous frescos by Giotto in the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi.

The devil was spotted in fresco No. 20 in a cycle of the scenes chronicling the life and death of St. Francis. The series was painted by Giotto in the 13th century.

The discovery was made by Italian art historian Chiara Frugone. It shows a profile of a figure with a hooked nose, a sly smile and dark horns hidden among the clouds in the panel of the scene depicting the death of St. Francis.

The figure is difficult to see from the floor of the basilica but emerges clearly in close-up photography.

Sergio Fusetti, the chief restorer of the basilica, said that Giotto probably never wanted the image of the devil to be a main part of the fresco and may have painted it in among the clouds "to have a bit of fun."

The master may have painted it to spite someone he knew by portraying him as a devil in the painting, Fusetti said on the convent's website.

The artwork in the basilica in the convent where St. Francis is buried was last restored after it was severely damaged by an earthquake in 1997.

More curiosities hidden in art:

Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45182628/ns/technology_and_science-science/

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Oh, Oklahoma: Quakes rock state used to tornadoes

(AP) ? Oklahomans more accustomed to tornadoes than earthquakes suffered through a series of weekend temblors that cracked buildings, buckled a highway and rattled nerves. One quake late Saturday was the state's strongest ever and shook a football stadium 50 miles away at the end of a big nationally watched college game.

"That shook up the place, had a lot of people nervous," Oklahoma State wide receiver Justin Blackmon said. "Yeah, it was pretty strong."

A magnitude 5.6 earthquake Saturday night was centered near Sparks, 44 miles northeast of Oklahoma City, and could be felt as far away as Tennessee and Wisconsin, according to reports received by the U.S. Geological Survey. A magnitude 4.7 quake early Saturday was felt from Texas to Missouri.

There were no immediate reports of serious injuries or major damage from the quakes, but a number of homeowners and businesses reported cracked walls or fallen knickknacks. At Shawnee, the fire department said one spire on the administration building at St. Gregory University had been damaged and another one was leaning, according to KWTV in Oklahoma City.

"Earthquake damage in Oklahoma. That's an anomaly right there," Todd McKinsey of Moore told The Oklahoman newspaper after a magnitude 5.6 temblor centered 50 miles away left him with cracked drywall.

Oklahoma typically has about 50 earthquakes a year, and 57 tornadoes, but a swarm of quakes east of Oklahoma City contributed to a sharp increase in the number of temblors. Researchers said 1,047 quakes occurred last year, prompting them to install seismographs in the area. A cause of the uptick wasn't known.

Saturday night's earthquake jolted Oklahoma State University's stadium shortly after the No. 3 Cowboys defeated No. 17 Kansas State. The crowd of 58,895 was still leaving when it hit, and players were in the locker rooms beneath the stands at Boone Pickens Stadium.

The temblor seemed to last the better part of a minute, rippling upward to the stadium press box.

"Everybody was looking around and no one had any idea," Oklahoma State quarterback Brandon Weeden said. "We thought the people above us were doing something. I've never felt one, so that was a first."

An emergency manager in Lincoln County near the epicenter said U.S. 62, a two-lane highway that meanders through the gently rolling landscape between Oklahoma City and the Arkansas state line, crumbled in places when the stronger quake struck Saturday night. Other reports in the early hours Sunday were sketchy and mentioned cracks in some buildings and a chimney toppled.

The magnitude 4.7 earthquake that struck the area early Saturday ? and a number of aftershocks following both large quakes ? rattled homes and businesses, but emergency officials said no injuries were reported and that there had been no immediate reports of major damages.

"Nothing is destroyed or anything like that," Prague City Police Department dispatcher Claudie Morton told the Tulsa World after the Saturday morning quakes.

But authorities said they would need to await daybreak for better light to assess any damages from the later, more powerful quake.

The late-night quake was slightly less in intensity than a temblor that rattled the East Coast on Aug. 23. That 5.8 magnitude earthquake was centered in Virginia and was felt from Georgia to Canada. No major damage was reported, although cracks appeared in the Washington Monument, the National Cathedral suffered costly damage to sculpted stonework, and a number of federal buildings were evacuated.

If the 5.6 magnitude from Saturday's late quake is confirmed, it would be Oklahoma's strongest. USGS records show that a 5.5 magnitude earthquake struck El Reno, just west of Oklahoma City, in 1952 and, before Oklahoma became a state in 1907, a quake of similar magnitude 5.5 struck in northeastern Indian Territory in 1882.

"Oh, man. I've never felt anything like that in my life," Morton told the Tulsa newspaper. "It was the scariest thing. I had a police officer just come in and sit down and all the sudden the walls started shaking and the windows were rattling. It felt like the roof was going to come off the police department."

Morton said the office was flooded with calls, but no one reported any severe injuries or damage. She said residents told her that picture frames and mirrors fell from walls and broke, drawers worked loose from dressers and objects tumbled out of cabinets.

"We do have several damaged buildings downtown, but it's just cracks and things like that," Morton said.

Oklahoma Geological Survey researcher Austin Holland told Oklahoma City television station KOTV that the earthquake and aftershocks occurred on a known fault line.

Residents in Prague and Sparks felt an intense shaking, but for those farther away the quake was more of a dull rumble, he said.

"It shakes much more rapidly when you're closer to it," he said. "Because it's a large earthquake, it's going to rumble for a while."

Associated Press

Source: http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/386c25518f464186bf7a2ac026580ce7/Article_2011-11-06-Earthquake-Oklahoma/id-cb91d6c3683d4133a0093f911faf6a6d

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Improved Allergy Shots Might Be on Horizon (HealthDay)

THURSDAY, Nov. 3 (HealthDay News) -- Allergy shots are time-tested treatments that reduce health care costs and can now provide relief to allergy sufferers within weeks instead of months, according to experts.

And while allergy shots are currently given under the skin (subcutaneously), new methods of allergy immunotherapy are being investigated, delegates heard at this week's annual scientific meeting of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI) in Boston.

Those potential new techniques include:

  • Intralymphatic immunotherapy (ILIT), which involves injecting allergens into a lymph node. Initial research shows that this approach provides a longer-lasting and more effective response, suggesting the dose and length of treatment could be shortened.
  • Epicutaneous immunotherapy (EPIT) involves lightly scraping a patient's skin and then applying a patch that delivers the allergens through the bloodstream.

Accelerated allergy immunotherapy and the cost benefits of immunotherapy were also discussed at the meeting.

Conventional immunotherapy requires patients to receive an allergy shot once or twice a week for about five months. But "rush" and "cluster" immunotherapy methods feature accelerated schedules to shorten that treatment period.

Rush immunotherapy typically involves giving multiple injections to a patient two or three days in a row, but schedules may be shorter or longer based on circumstances. Cluster immunotherapy involves two to four injections, given 30 minutes apart, one day a week for three weeks.

"You shouldn't have to put your life on hold to treat your allergies," Dr. Richard Weber, ACAAI vice president, said in a college news release. "Accelerated schedules offer patients more flexibility, faster results and a treatment plan they are more likely to follow because it reflects their needs and busy lifestyle."

"Research shows accelerated schedules are safe and effective options, and they appeal to patients who do not want to commit to weekly allergy shots for five or six months," he added.

Not only is allergy immunotherapy highly effective, it can save thousands of dollars in health care costs per patient, according to a study presented at the meeting.

Researchers examined Florida Medicaid data and found that children with allergies who received allergy immunotherapy had nearly $6,000 less in health care costs over 18 months than children with allergies who did not receive allergy immunotherapy. Among adults, the amount saved over 18 months was more than $7,000.

Because this research was presented at a medical meeting, the data and conclusions should be viewed as preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed journal.

"Allergy immunotherapy is a well-established, safe and effective treatment. Our research clearly shows that this treatment is also cost effective and these cost benefits occur almost immediately," Cheryl Hankin, president and chief scientific officer of BioMedEcon, said in the news release.

More information

The American Academy of Family Physicians has more about allergy shots.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/diseases/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20111104/hl_hsn/improvedallergyshotsmightbeonhorizon

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Sam Chaltain: Occupy Third Grade?

On a recent crisp fall morning in the nation's capital, 3rd grade teacher Rebecca Lebowitz gathered her 29 public school students on their familiar giant multicolored carpet, and reminded them how to make sense of the characters whose worlds they would soon enter during independent reading time.

"What are the four things we want to look for when we meet a new character?" Ms. Lebowitz asked from her chair at the foot of the rug. Several hands shot up before nine-year-old Monica spoke confidently over the steady hum of the classroom's antiquated radiator. "We want to pay attention to what they do, what they say, how they feel, and what their body language tells us." "That's right," her teacher said cheerily. "When we look for those four things, we have a much better sense of who a person really is."

As the calendar shifts to the eleventh month of 2011 -- a year of near-constant revolution and upheaval, from the Arab Spring to the Wisconsin statehouse to the global effort to Occupy Wall Street -- what might the rest of us learn from students like Monica? If, in short, we were as smart as a third-grader, what would we observe about the character of this year's global protests, and what might we decide to do next?

1. It is not about "democracy" -- As much as we glorify and value the principles and practices of our democratic system of government, it's not democracy per se that is at the root of this unleashed global yearning. As New York Times columnist Tom Friedman pointed out, what motivated the protesters in Tahrir Square -- and what most animates those who continue to brave the wintry weather in public squares around the world -- is a deeper quest for what lies at the root of a genuinely democratic society: justice.

The people protesting around the world are not just looking to be seen; they're demanding to be heard. And what they're saying is that from Egypt to the United States, essential social contracts have been broken -- contracts that require at least a modicum of fairness and balance. If anything, therefore, these movements are about highlighting an uncomfortable truth: merely having a democracy does not guarantee a just society, and the tendencies of democracy and capitalism, left untended, tend to flow in different directions.

2. It is about unsustainable social orders -- Across the Middle East, citizens have been risking their lives for months to protest the injustice of their daily lives. And yet the absence of social justice is a cancer that has already spread well beyond the borders of the Arab world. According to a recent analysis of the 31 countries that make up the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), nearly 11 percent of all people in OECD countries live in poverty. Worse still, 22 percent of American children are affected by poverty, yet the United States spends only 0.33 percent of its GDP on pre-primary education.

When these data are combined with other indicators like income inequality, access to health care, and the percentage of elderly citizens living in poverty, the United States gets a social justice rating that trails all but four of the OECD's 31 countries. Add to that the now-well-known fact that the top 1 percent of Americans now control 40 percent of the total wealth, and you have an unsustainable social system, plain and simple. People are angry, and they're not going to take it anymore.

3. It does require a reboot of public education -- History has shown us that to sustain a movement for transformational social change, anger is both necessary and insufficient. To sustain our energy, we are best fueled by an empathetic regard for the needs of others, not just our own. As Gandhi put it, "I discovered in the earliest stages that pursuit of truth did not admit of violence being inflicted on one's opponent but that he must be weaned from error by patience and compassion."

If what we seek, then, is a more sustainable and just social order, how should we recalibrate our public schools -- the institutions most responsible for equipping children with the skills and self-confidence they need to become effective and justice-oriented change agents as adults?

We might start by evaluating each other the same way Ms. Lebowitz's students evaluate new characters in a book. To fulfill the egalitarian vision of 2011, children must grow up in learning environments that are sensitive not just to what they do and say, but also to how they feel and what their body language tells us about the larger world they inhabit. This, too, is a central insight of those who study systemic change. "We need to learn to attend to both dimensions simultaneously," says M.I.T management professor Otto Scharmer. "What we say, see, and do (our visible realm), and the inner place from which we operate (the invisible realm, in which our sources of attention reside and from which they operate)."

Recent events have underscored just how essential it is to acknowledge our global interdependence; after all, it was the financial subterfuge of the few that affected the personal well-being of the many. That's why a healthy democracy is more than just policies and practices -- and a healthy school is more than just test scores and teacher policies. That's why the American activists of tomorrow need more than just the occasional lesson about Gandhi or King; they need consistent opportunities to actively apply their own developing compassion for others in the service of creating a better world. And that's why students like Monica need to grow up in a society willing to heed the rising voices of the protesters and recommit to our nation's founding promise: "We the people, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice."

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Follow Sam Chaltain on Twitter: www.twitter.com/samchaltain

Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sam-chaltain/occupy-wall-street-education_b_1074181.html

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