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Sunday, December 18, 2011
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Whoopi Cushion: Goldberg Lets One RIP on The View
Whoopi Goldberg farted on The View hardcore today.
Seriously, there's breaking wind and there is cutting ass.
This is the latter. It was a loud one, and there's no hiding it. To her credit, Whoopi didn't even try after the fart interrupted her interview with Homeland star Claire Danes, saying, "Excuse me, I think I just blew a little frog outta there!"
Seriously:
A rep for ABC said that Whoopi Goldberg farting on The View (not for the first time, either) "was in good fun ... secretly we hoped it would get posted on YouToot."
Gotta give them credit for honestly. And that play on words.
Source: http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2011/12/whoopi-cushion-goldberg-lets-one-rip-on-the-view/
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Russian fishing ship listing near Antarctica
By The Associated Press
WELLINGTON, New Zealand --??A Russian fishing vessel with 32 crew members was in trouble and taking on water near Antarctica on Friday, with heavy sea ice hampering rescue efforts.
The vessel Sparta was listing at 13 degrees next to the Antarctic ice shelf in the Ross Sea, according to Maritime New Zealand. The agency said that the crew was safe and was throwing cargo overboard to lighten the ship, and that some of the crew had boarded lifeboats as a precautionary measure.
The crew also was pumping water out of the vessel, the agency said in a statement.
The crew is made up of 15 Russians, 16 Indonesians and one Ukrainian, the agency said.
The Sparta, which is 180 feet (55 meters) long, sent a distress call early Friday. Maritime New Zealand said heavy ice in the Southern Ocean would make it difficult for other ships to reach the vessel.
The Sparta's sister ship Chiyo Maru No. 3 was 290 nautical miles away and heading toward the stricken vessel but had no capacity to cut through sea ice, the agency said. A New Zealand vessel with some ice-cutting ability was also en route, but was four or five days away. A third vessel was just 19 nautical miles away, but it was hemmed in by heavy ice and unable to move toward the Sparta.
Ramon Davis, who is coordinating rescue efforts with the agency, said a C-130 Hercules plane had arrived from Antarctica and flew over the scene to assess ice conditions in the area in order to speed up the rescue efforts. But Davis said the aircraft would not be able to pick up the crew.
Davis said there were no helicopters in the area and that another vessel remained the most viable option for trying to rescue the crew.
"It is possible the crew will have a fairly long wait for rescue," he said.
The crew has some emergency immersion suits that could keep them alive for a time in freezing water, Maritime New Zealand said.
The weather in the area was calm, with temperatures a relatively mild 37 degrees Fahrenheit (3 degrees Celsius).
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Saturday, December 17, 2011
Geminid Meteor Shower Wows Skywatchers Despite Bright Moon (SPACE.com)
Die-hard skywatchers around the world caught a dazzling "shooting star" light show Tuesday night (Dec. 13) during the peak of the annual Geminid meteor shower.
The Geminid meteor shower is often one of the best meteor displays of the year, but this year the event peaked just days after a total lunar eclipse and the December full moon, which threatened to wash out the sky show. But that didn't stop meteor shower enthusiasts from venturing out into the chilly December night for the celestial event.
"Despite the bright moonlight I could see more than two dozens of nice Geminids during the two hours I could spend outside!" skywatcher and photographer Monika Landy-Gyebnar, of Veszprem, Hungary, told SPACE.com in an email.
Landy-Gyebnar and a friend watched the Geminids from two different spots outside their hometown, keeping in contact via telephone. "I saw some really bright Geminids which fell outside the cameras' field of view near the zenith, also saw some fainter ones farther away from the Moon. All of them were quick and had no color. Many fell around the constellation Orion which were charming to see!" she added. [Skywatcher Photos: 2011 Geminid Meteor Shower]
Landy-Gyebnar also had some critter company during her skywatching trek. Her photos showed bright streaks lighting up the night sky.
"My only companions were two foxes who squalled near me talking to each other very loudly, although I could not see them, they might have been watching the Geminid shower among the bushes," she said. "It was a very good experience with much more meteors ? so I can only suggest anyone to watch the sky as much as possible because bad circumstances are not always so bad!"
The Geminid meteor shower is an annual sky show created by pieces of the weird asteroid 3200 Phaethon, which sheds dusty debris. As the Earth passes through this debris field each year, the space rock remnants burn up in the atmosphere to create eye-catching fireballs and meteors.
The meteor shower appears to emanate from the constellation Gemini, which is where its name comes from.
A dependable sky show
Landy-Gyebnar was by no means the only skywatcher to look up during the Geminids' peak.
In British Columbia, Canada, photographer and amateur astronomer Daniel Stanyer braved the chilly December night and parked his camera on the roof of his car to snap photos. One dazzling fireball passed out of range of Stanyer's camera, but the next one streaked right across his field of view.
"Right away I looked over at the camera to see if the shutter was open or not. It was a long wait to the end of the 15 second exposure from there. I was very excited to see that I had captured the entire thing, and called it a night right there," he said. "All in all I saw 21 in the hour I was out, with 12 of those the slow streaking kind, 9 dimmer faster ones, and the one fireball. It's been a great couple days with the lunar eclipse and now this meteor show."
Delightful December meteors
Skywatcher Mike Hankey of Freeland, Md., said the bright moonlight didn't put a damper on his Geminid experience either.
"The shower seemed pretty active and this is the best crop of meteor photos I've had all year," Hankey told SPACE.com. "That is pretty amazing, considering there was a near full moon and we got clouded out at 2:00 a.m."
Hankey created a composite time-lapse photo that captured many of the meteors he spotted in a single image.
"I captured 11 meteors on camera last night before the clouds came in," Hankey said. I put together a composite image with 7 of the best meteor shots. It turned out pretty good."
NASA astronomers also got into the spirit of the Geminid meteor shower, with the space agency hosting a late-night webchat and live stream from all-sky cameras across the south-east.
In a post-meteor shower wrap up, Bill Cooke, head of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., said that clouds blocked much of the camera views Tuesday night.
"However,?we managed to capture a few images before viewing was obscure," Cooke wrote in a blog.
Some eager skywatchers did not snap photos of the Geminid meteor shower, but were still amazed by the event.
"I've only been outside for 1/2 an hour and I've already seen 9 meteors! WOW!" observer Stacey Mohamed wrote SPACE.com from Kissimmee, Fla. "I have made sure to watch every meteor shower this year and by far this is the best! Maybe it's because I'm a Gemini myself!"
The next shooting star display to grace Earth's night skies will be the Ursid meteor shower, which peaks on Dec. 22. But skywatchers should wait until 2012 for more impressive displays.
The first meteor display of 2012 will be the Quadrantid meteor shower, which peaks on Jan. 3.
You can follow SPACE.com Managing Editor Tariq Malik on Twitter @tariqjmalik. Follow SPACE.com for the latest in space science and exploration news on Twitter @Spacedotcomand on Facebook.
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Women's Response to Alcohol Suggests Need for Gender-Specific Treatment Programs
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A new study underscores that the physical consequences of alcoholism appear faster and are more severe for women than for men
?| December 16, 2011?|
Alcohol abuse does its neurological damage more quickly in women than in men, new research suggests. The finding adds to a growing body of evidence that is prompting researchers to consider whether the time is ripe for single-gender treatment programs for alcohol-dependent women and men.
Over the past few decades scientists have observed a narrowing of the gender gap in alcohol dependence. In the 1980s the ratio of male to female alcohol dependence stood at roughly five males for every female, according to figures compiled by Shelly Greenfield, a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. By 2002 the "dependence difference" had dropped to about 2.5 men for every woman. But although the gender gap in dependence may be closing, differences in the ways men and women respond to alcohol are emerging. Writing in the January 2012 issue of Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, principal investigator Claudia Fahlke from the Department of Psychology at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden and her colleagues found that alcohol's ability to reduce serotonin neurotransmission, was "telescoped" in alcoholic women compared with their male counterparts. In other words, although the alcohol-dependent men and women in the study differed substantially in their mean duration of excessive drinking?four years for the women and 14 years for the men?both sexes showed similar patterns of reduced serotonin activity compared with controls. The researchers gauged serotonergic neurotransmission by measuring its response to citalopram, a drug that stalls serotonin molecules in the synaptic gap (as measured by the hormone prolactin's response to citalopram. This pattern of reduced serotonergic neurotransmission matters, because some of the alcohol-induced abnormalities were found in brain regions involved in judgment, self-control and emotional regulation.
Carla A. Green of the Kaiser Permanente Northwest Center for Health Research says the serotonin results were "consistent with findings of more severe physical consequences of alcohol consumption among women compared to men." Green, who is also associate professor of public health and prevention medicine and of psychiatry at Oregon Health & Science University, points out that women with addictions are more likely to suffer from associated mental health conditions. "Given the link between serotonin and depression, and the links between alcohol dependence and depression, this finding suggests one pathway in which alcohol dependence may lead to depression, and do so more quickly among women," she says.
Previous work on gender differences in alcohol dependence has shown that women get drunk on fewer drinks than men owing to a deficit of alcohol dehydrogenase, the enzyme in the stomach lining that breaks down booze. After two beers, women are more likely than men to exceed legal levels of alcohol in the bloodstream. (Women also develop cirrhosis of the liver more rapidly.) Research aimed specifically at the treatment needs of alcoholic women has long been spotty, however. To that end, a recent pilot study conducted by Greenfield demonstrated that a woman-centered approach could be as effective as a mixed-gender control group over the course of a 12-week study. More importantly, follow-ups at six months showed that women from the all-female recovery groups relapsed less often than women in the mixed group. In her all-female treatment groups, Greenfield discovered that women shared personal information more readily, and bonding behavior was more noticeable, particularly for less assertive women. Greenfield now has a larger group study in progress?all part of a recent explosion of research on women and alcohol.
Green, who collaborated with Greenfield on an earlier review of gender research at the National Institute on Drug Abuse, says that "the most consistent, and, I'd argue, the most important finding in the literature is that it takes longer for women to enter treatment for similar severity of alcohol problems than it does for men." In general, women require medical treatment four years earlier than male problem drinkers, Greenfield suggests. In another study, Greenfield found that women tend to go to primary health care physicians rather than to specialty substance abuse programs for treatment, putting additional pressure on family doctors to diagnose and treat alcohol dependence in women as early as possible.
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Friday, December 16, 2011
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Wednesday, December 7, 2011
What Hamilton can teach euro-zone (Politico)
A finger in the dike won?t solve the euro crisis.
The central banks? move last week to provide dollar liquidity for the world financial system was greeted by markets with euphoria. But it only underscores the seriousness of the threat of renewed financial paralysis emanating from the euro zone. A new financial seize-up could overwhelm Europe, the United States and many other countries. Far more decisive political action is needed to pull the euro area back from the precipice.
Continue ReadingBut, what would decisive political action look like? Here is one example:
In 1790, the fledgling United States government faced a problem that had crucial similarities to the one Europe now confronts. The 13 colonies had emerged from the Revolutionary War with significant debts that were distributed unequally among them.
Alexander Hamilton, the first Treasury secretary, argued strongly for ?Assumption? ? that the federal government should assume and honor the debts of all the states, financing them by issuing federal bonds and raising tariffs and excise taxes. Virginia, like Germany today, did not have a debt problem of its own, having retired most of it.
Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, both from Virginia, initially opposed Hamilton?s plan. But they compromised in return for placing the fledgling nation?s capital near their state.
Hamilton?s approach provides a roadmap for Europe to rescue not just the euro, but the entire euro-area financial system.
Any solution in the euro area has to address financial and fiscal stability over the long run. This could be Germany?s quid pro quo for helping reduce the debt loads of struggling, but potentially solvent, euro countries.
It is challenging, but feasible, to design a system of improved governance for the European Monetary Union (EMU) that could last for generations. To be credible, a change in the rules would have to be anchored in a change of the treaty that created the euro. So it is a major step that the euro-zone leadership at last recognizes that there needs to be fundamental change.
Politicians often prefer delay to action ? as the past weeks have demonstrated. But now the policymakers are in a race against time. They must figure out how to get through the debt crisis in coming weeks and months, if they are to have any opportunity to tackle and repair EMU?s faulty design.
Signs of a continent-wide bank run are everywhere. This is what provoked the central banks to act. Creditors are fleeing non-German banks at an accelerating rate. Between May and October, an estimated Euro 140 billion, or $185 billion, has been transferred from these banks to banks in Germany that are perceived as safer, reaching a cumulative total now of 450 billion euros.
The flight to safety comes as no surprise: Even ?insured? bank depositors are threatened by sovereign defaults or a possible breakup of EMU. Investors outside the euro area seem even more jittery. For example, according to Fitch, the credit rating agency, large U.S. prime money market funds have slashed their exposure by more than half to euro-area ? particularly French ? banks since May.
The early stages of a bank run in the euro area have sent shivers down the spine of global markets. Once runs start, they generally don?t stop until governments step in. Yet, with few exceptions, euro-area governments do not have access to sufficient funds to stop a run on their banks.
A full-fledged bank run, together with a crash of the interbank funding market and a sovereign funding collapse in the euro area, could prove as catastrophic as the U.S. financial disaster in 2008-2009. In that meltdown, global stock prices halved and many countries experienced their deepest, longest recessions since the Great Depression.
Without unprecedented actions by the healthiest public-sector actors, the euro area as currently constituted is unlikely to survive. There is no way of knowing how long euro-area policymakers have until they must act. But they can no longer assume that the time frame will extend for months, let alone years. It could be weeks.
The only way to get from here to the long-term solution is to reduce the real debt of the euro countries ? probably by trillions of euros. The choices are limited.
One is to inflate the debt away ? an approach advocated by a growing number of economists and political analysts. That is a deeply flawed solution: It would destroy the European Central Bank?s credibility, undermining the rationale for the euro. It is also intolerable to Germany.
A related approach, now being talked about by euro policymakers, is to have the European Central Bank buy up the bonds of the weaker countries ? presumably at inflated prices. Their argument is: Once investors believe there will be greater fiscal and financial union in EMU, the prices of these bonds will recover, causing no losses to the ECB.
This is a terrible solution based on an unlikely outcome. It would damage the ECB?s independence, and transform its role from being a lender of last resort to solvent banks to bailing out poorly run, sovereign nations.
A third option would be to impose massive losses on holders of euro-area debt through outright default. Making the lenders pay for their mistakes is appealing and ? as market prices suggest ? increasingly probable. Yet, because of the fragile financial sector?s exposure, this approach also makes a further bank run all the more likely. The cost of that will be borne by everyone.
The best viable approach would be to share some of the debt burden directly among euro-area countries. This is what Hamilton proposed for the new nation and it worked. A credible commitment to new fiscal and financial rules would be necessary to ensure that the current debt fiasco will not be repeated.
The reward for countries paying for the profligacy of the past would be the continued survival of the euro ? and the prevention of a collapse of the financial system.
Sometimes nations need to step up.
Thomas Cooley, Matthew Richardson and Kermit Schoenholtz are professors of economics and finance at New York University?s Stern School of Business.
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