Scientists say one of the most popular fish in the Gulf of Mexico has rebounded enough to allow a second season for red snapper this year.
The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council meets in New Orleans on Wednesday to consider increased fishing quotas and a supplemental 2013 season for red snapper, one of the region's most popular game and eating fish.
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Startup renaissance man Elon Musk has spent the past year or so not-so-subtly dropping hints about yet another ambitious transport project of his, and it seems he's getting ready to describe it in more detail. Amid plenty of speculation, Musk revealed in a tweet earlier today that he plans to publish his tentative designs for the Hyperloop system by August 12.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/e4ARwjTUAbk/
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NEW YORK (AP) ? It's a mainstay on Broadway and now "The Lion King" has proved it's a king on the road, too.
Disney Theatrical Productions said Wednesday that the show's total touring box office gross in North America has reached $1 billion. Producers estimate that more than 15 million theatergoers in over 70 cities across North America have seen the show since 2002.
Says Jack Eldon, a vice president at Disney Theatrical Productions: "We remain overwhelmed by the enduring response to the show and are enormously thankful to our patrons ? new and returning ? for their continued enthusiasm and support."
It reached its milestone quickly. Three national tours of "The Phantom of the Opera" have grossed over $1.5 billion in combined box office sales but the first kicked off in 1989.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/lion-king-road-hits-1-billion-212254050.html
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By Rachel Ehrenberg
Web edition: July 11, 2013
COATS AFLOAT
Mix iron and tannic acid in water and they'll bond, forming little capsules (shown), scientists have discovered. The process is quick, easy and reversible.
Credit: Courtesy of Science/AAAS
It?s not often that chemists find a quick, simple and cheap method for making things using widely available ingredients, but researchers have done just that: They?ve created elegant little capsules and coatings in water simply by mixing iron and a compound from plants called tannic acid. The soft coatings form on their own around whatever else is in the water ? glass beads, bacteria, gold nanoparticles and more. Just changing the solution?s pH can prompts the coatings to disassemble.
The coatings? ingredients are considered safe ? tannic acid is found in wine, while iron is an important element for living things. That means the capsules might help in delivering drugs in the body or find use in cosmetics or foods, says bioengineer Gregory Payne of the University of Maryland in College Park.
The work fits with an ongoing effort to find biologically friendly, useful materials, Payne says, and it takes advantage of materials that are right under everyone?s noses. ?It opens up a lot of opportunities.?
Using ordinary lab equipment, the research team, led by materials scientist Frank Caruso of the University of Melbourne in Australia, create the tiny coatings at room temperature. When the researchers add tannic acid to water, it tends to congregate around surfaces, whether they be a piece of polystyrene or an E. coli bacterium. When the researchers add iron ions to the mix, the iron latches onto the tannic acid molecules, connecting them into a thin film. At a pH of 7.4, the capsules were still intact after 10 days; at a pH of 3, they disassembled within four hours, the team reports in the July 12 Science.
Suggested Reading
W.E. Bentley and G.F. Payne. Nature?s other self-assemblers. Science. Vol. 341, July 12, 2013, p.136. doi:10.1126/science.1241562. [Go to]
R. Ehrenberg. Microsculptures made easy. Science News Online, May 16, 2013. [Go to]
D. Castelvecchi. Hooking up. Science News. Vol. 172, November 10, 2007, p.301. [Go to]
Source: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/351501/title/Coatings_have_simple_recipe_for_success
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Today we will again be covering the Zimmerman Trial live, all day, with streaming video. Continuing commentary will be posted in the Twitter feed of selected contributors below the first video feed, and breaking news will be added at the bottom of this post.
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During the lunch recess, or immediately thereafter, we will TRY topost a mid-day update. We?ll then follow up with the usual detailed end-of-day wrap up, including video and embedded Tweets, at the usual time in the evening.
Our end-of-day wrap-up and analysis of yesterday focused on the collapse of the State?s ?scream? theory of the case, which imploded with the disclosure that Tracey Martin had initially denied that the screaming on the Lauer 911 recording was that of his son, Trayvon Martin. It also noted that the Court had decided to allow Trayvon Martin?s toxicology report to be allowed into evdience. Also, of course, it contains video of all the other testimony and hearings caught on camera throughout the day. That can be found here:
This past weekend I posted up an analytical piece of Mark O?Mara?s request for a judgment of acquittal. O?Mara?s motion was well-reasoned and supported by Florida?s case law. It was, of course, doomed to peremptory denial by Judge Nelson. In that piece I?ve linked almost all of the case citations made by O?Mara to full-length copies of the decisions, so you can see the sources for yourselves, if you like (most of the decisions are gratifyingly brief). You can see that here:
Last Thursday, July 4, I had posted up a review of the trial to date, with some prognostication of how things may role out in the coming days. To take a look at that, click here:
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Although it never got the kind of coverage that abortion rights did, forced sterilization was another reproductive rights violation that plagued women in the 20th century. The practice gradually disappeared as the concept of reproductive autonomy took hold in our national consciousness. Or we thought it did. But a new report from the Center for Investigative Reporting?suggests that as recently as 2010, California prisons were coercing women into permanent sterilization by skipping over protocols put in place to prevent such coercion.
In California, a health care committee is supposed to authorize prisoner tubal litigations in order to prevent abuses, but from 2006 to 2010, 148 women were sterilized by doctors who just skipped that step. CIR says there may be as many as 100 more cases dating back to the 1990s.?
CIR interviewed doctors who were involved in sterilizations in California prisons, and comments from these doctors only raise suspicion that they supported a system of bullying and frightening women into agreeing to sterilizations they did not want. Dr. James Heinrich is accused by at least one inmate of badgering her about sterilization until she caved, and his comments about the money spent by the state on these procedures are not very reassuring.?
?Over a 10-year period, that isn?t a huge amount of money,? Heinrich said, ?compared to what you save in welfare paying for these unwanted children?as they procreated more.?
"Unwanted" by whom? The women themselves or Heinrich? Christina Cordero, who was sterilized by Heinrich, says she wished she hadn't had the tubal litigation. So perhaps any child she might have conceived would have been wanted.
Another doctor who worked for the California prison system was recorded spouting right-wing urban legends about people who "want" to be in prison for the supposedly great health care.?
The top medical manager at Valley State Prison from 2005 to 2008 characterized the surgeries as an empowerment issue for female inmates, providing them the same options as women on the outside. Daun Martin, a licensed psychologist, also claimed that some pregnant women, particularly those on drugs or who were homeless, would commit crimes so they could return to prison for better health care.
?Do I criticize those women for manipulating the system because they?re pregnant? Absolutely not,? Martin, 73, said. ?But I don?t think it should happen. And I?d like to find ways to decrease that.?
Any comment that implies that certain kinds of people don't yearn for freedom should be viewed with suspicion, but especially under the circumstances. After all, as CIR reports, U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson of the Northern District of California ruled in 2006 that the health care system in the area prisons was so bad it constituted a human rights violation. The claim that women are routinely trading in their freedom and their families just to get access to such a shoddy level of care is pretty hard to swallow.?
Incarcerated women deserve to have access to contraception, of course, and plenty of women are interested in long-term solutions. No one denies this, but CIR's report?shows how "access" can turn into "coercion" very quickly when the women in question are marginalized or imprisoned. The frustrating part is that California already has fail-safes to make sure that line is not crossed, but the rules only work if you actually bother to follow them.?
By Dave Graham and Luc Cohen
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's opposition conservatives were heading for victory in a regional election early on Monday, likely bolstering a fragile national cross-party pact forged to broker economic reforms.
Nearly half of Mexico's 31 states held elections on Sunday for a mix of local parliaments and municipal governments, but the focus was on the race for governor in Baja California, a stronghold of the conservative National Action Party (PAN).
Both the PAN and President Enrique Pena Nieto's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) claimed victory in the state after polls closed, but an initial vote count showed the conservatives maintaining a narrow but consistent lead.
With nearly 96 percent of the ballots counted, the PAN had an advantage of 3 percentage points over the PRI, or 47.2 percent of the vote, preliminary results from the local electoral authority showed.
The Baja California vote has been under close scrutiny because a defeat for the PAN was expected to rattle the "Pact for Mexico" that Pena Nieto made with opposition leaders to strengthen his hand in Congress, where the PRI lacks a majority.
A victory for the PAN could prove more useful to Pena Nieto than a win for his own party if it helps strengthen the political accord he unveiled after taking office in December.
The PAN lost control of Mexico in last year's presidential elections and it is now the third force in Congress. But Pena Nieto needs to keep the conservatives on board to push through planned overhauls of state oil giant Pemex and the tax system.
Those two reforms are due to be presented by early September, and Pena Nieto is keen to secure as much political support for them as possible, particularly as the Pemex shake-up is likely to face stiff opposition from the left.
Before results came in, Manlio Fabio Beltrones, the PRI's leader in the lower house of Congress, encouraged the parties not to dwell on the outcome of Sunday's elections.
"Once election day has passed, we need to focus on the pending legislative work," Beltrones said.
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Baja California is one of the PAN's few remaining bastions, and the first state it captured from the PRI 24 years ago. It proved a major stepping stone to the PAN claiming the presidency in 2000 after 71 consecutive years of rule by the PRI.
Throughout the election campaign, PAN lawmakers accused the PRI of trying to fix the outcome by buying votes, and they warned that any sign of fraud could scuttle the national pact.
Outside of the gubernatorial contest, partial results in major mayoral races showed the PAN looked set to take city hall from the PRI in Mexicali, Saltillo and Aguascalientes.
By contrast, the PRI led in Oaxaca and other rural strongholds, as well as the populous Gulf state of Veracruz.
A few hours before the polls closed, Madero was asked how he viewed the future of the Pact, and said: "the need to reach agreements is still there, it's still imperative for Mexico."
The PAN's image has been hurt by public infighting since last year's national election defeat, when voters punished the party for failing to curb violence between warring drug cartels that has claimed more than 70,000 lives since 2007.
The bloodshed has continued under Pena Nieto's rule and the campaign for the July 7 elections was marred by the murder and kidnapping of a number of candidates.
The Baja California election was also deemed to be crucial for Madero's continuing leadership of the PAN. Any battle for control of the party could threaten the pact, which has already pushed a big education reform and a shake-up of competition in the telecoms sector through Congress.
But the central planks of Pena Nieto's hopes to raise economic growth to 6 percent a year from an average of barely 2 percent since the millennium began are reforms to bolster tax revenues and open up Pemex to more private investment.
Those measures may be in doubt if the pact falls apart.
(Additional reporting by Michael O'Boyle and Tomas Sarmiento; Editing by Bill Trott)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/mexico-opposition-leads-baja-california-boosting-reform-pact-130012693.html
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Some very patriotic news to share on this Fourth of July as Louisville's own Luke Hancock has been selected to be the flag-bearer for the United States during Saturday's opening ceremonies for the World University Games in Russia.
Hancock was selected out of more than 280 American athletes.
"That's a pretty cool feeling," Hancock said. "It will be a great moment that I'll be able to bring back with me."
The Final Four's Most Outstanding Player, Hancock turned heads nationally by playing inspired basketball in front of a father who was battling cancer. His father lost that battle last month, but not before he knew that his son would be trying out for the USA Basketball team.
"Everybody's excited when they get an invitation like this, to come play for their country," Hancock said. "I talked to my dad before I left. We talked about this. This is where he wanted me to be and this is kind of how my family wanted me to go through with it. I thought about not going, just staying home. But my dad made sure that I went. He made sure that I at least tried. It's been a rough week, but this is where he wanted me to be I guess.
"When I heard I made the team it was a pretty proud moment. But it was also a very tough moment because I couldn't call home and tell my dad. But my mom (Van) and I had a moment. This has been great for me and my family. It's kind of lifted everybody up just a little bit.
"It's an unbelievable feeling just to put USA across your chest," he said. "Even if it was just for tryouts or just for practice. To know that you have the opportunity to wear something that says you're playing for the U.S. It feels great."
Congratulations to Luke. I'm not sure anyone deserves it more.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia urged North Korea on Thursday to help pave the way for a resumption of international talks and told Pyongyang that ending the standoff over its nuclear program would bring economic benefits.
North Korean First Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye-Gwan met separately in Moscow with two Russian deputy foreign ministers, Vladimir Titov and Igor Morgulov, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
Russia "underscored the need for joint efforts aimed at easing tension and creating the conditions for the swift resumption of six-party talks on the basis of principles agreed in the declaration of September 19, 2005," it said in a statement.
That referred to a 2005 aid-for-denuclearization deal that Russia, the United States and other nations say Pyongyang violated by conducting a nuclear test in 2006 and pursuing a uranium enrichment program that would give it a second path to a nuclear weapon, in addition to its plutonium-based program.
Six-party talks involving the two Koreas, the United States, Japan, Russia and China, collapsed in 2008 when the North walked away from the deal. In Beijing last month, Kim repeated an offer for a resumption of the talks, according to Chinese officials. Neither Kim nor the Russia diplomats spoke publicly on Thursday.
The Russian statement about creating conditions for the resumption of the six-party talks seemed to echo U.S. statements that any talks must involve action by the North to show it is moving toward disarmament.
The call for efforts to ease tension signaled that if North Korea wants talks, it must refrain from actions such as nuclear tests and missile launches that have violated U.N. Security Council resolutions.
Russia also held out a carrot.
The diplomats told Kim that "normalizing the situation on the peninsula" would enable Russia and North Korea to step up economic ties and "begin implementation of large-scale international economic projects", the ministry said.
That may have referred in part to a long-discussed pipeline to supply Russian natural gas to South Korea via North Korea, which experts say is highly unlikely to proceed anytime soon because of tension between North and South Korea.
(Writing by Steve Gutterman; Editing by Mark Heinrich)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/russia-urges-north-korea-help-enable-international-talks-191026376.html
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