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Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Taxing sugary beverages not a clear cut strategy to reduce obesity
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Long-Predicted Polarization Detected in the Cosmic Microwave Background
The B-mode polarization signal provides a way for astronomers to calculate neutrino masses, as well as to chase a class of "primordial" B-modes that could be used to confirm inflation
The South Pole Telescope has detected the first B-mode polarization signal in the cosmic microwave background. Image: Daniel Luong-Van, NSF
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Astronomers have detected a long-predicted polarization signal in the ripples of the Big Bang. The signal, known as B-mode polarization, is caused by the gravitational tug of matter on microwave photons left over from the Big Bang.
Its detection, posted this week to the arXiv preprint server and made by a microwave telescope at the South Pole, raises hopes that the signal can be used to map out the matter content of the Universe and determine the masses of the three types of neutrinos ? in effect, using astronomy to achieve a key goal of particle physics. The detection also suggests that it might be possible to detect another type of B-mode, which would be evidence that the Universe, in the moment after the Big Bang, underwent a wrenching expansion known as inflation.
?The reason no one?s been able to see this before is that it is a very small signal ? about 1 part in 10 million,? says Duncan Hanson, an astrophysicist at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, who led the work, which used ultrasensitive microwave receivers on the 10-metre South Pole Telescope (SPT). In comparison, the first measurements of ripples in the cosmic microwave background, released in 1992 by researchers using the NASA Cosmic Background Explorer satellite, was sensitive to differences of 4 parts in 100,000.
Other instruments are also seeking to detect B-modes, including the POLARBEAR experiment and the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT), both in Chajnantor, Chile.
?They beat us, and hats off to them,? says Lyman Page, an astronomer at Princeton University in New Jersey and principal investigator for the ACT. ?It?s intrinsically a neat signal and we all believe it will become an important tool for measuring the contents of the Universe.?
David Spergel, a theoretical astrophysicist also at Princeton, agrees. ?It?s the first time polarization has been used to trace out large-scale structure in the Universe,? he says.
The SPT was switched on in 2007 and has used the cosmic microwave background to map out the positions of galaxies and star clusters. Its sensitive microwave receivers were installed in 2012 and were able to detect variations in the B-mode signal across very small scales on the sky, says John Carlstrom, an astrophysicist at the University of Chicago in Illinois and principal investigator of the SPT. To use the signal to pin down the masses of neutrinos, which make up an unknown proportion of the matter being mapped, astronomers will have to survey a patch of sky much larger than the 100 square degrees mapped by the SPT. Still, Carlstrom says it is not implausible that telescopes will determine the neutrino mass in the next few years, before planned particle-physics experiments attempt to do the same thing with beams of neutrinos on Earth.
Yet the ultimate goal of the microwave-polarization experiments is not to do particle physics but cosmology. They are chasing a different class of ?primordial? B-modes, which are thought to have been generated by the fast expansion of space during inflation. Any detection would be a definitive confirmation of inflation ? one of the core theories of cosmology ? and would fix its energy scale, which would be useful to physicists working to develop theories of quantum gravity. But primordial B-modes would exist as tiny variations on large scales of more than 1 degree across ? too large for the SPT to find statistical significance with the relatively small patch of sky it surveyed. The European Space Agency's Planck satellite, which surveys the whole sky, might be able to make them out. It is also possible that they will be discernible in smaller data sets such as the SPT's once the gravitational B-modes have been mapped and removed, to potentially reveal any primordial signal beneath. The latest observation from the SPT suggests that this approach to detecting B-modes is a good prospect, says Spergel. ?It?s a good sign that they?ve measured this from the ground.?
This article is reproduced with permission from the magazine Nature. The article was first published on July 24, 2013.
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'The Wolverine' Gives 'X-Men' Franchise Its Sixth #1 Debut
Hugh Jackman's sixth outing in the role that made him famous made $55 million over the weekend.
By Ryan J. Downey
Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1711392/the-wolverine-top-box-office-debut.jhtml
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Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Tallahassee Residents Say Why They Support or Don't Support Celebrity Florida Boycott
By: Bailey Myers
July 28th, 2013
Tallahassee FL- Celebrities from around the country have taken a stand against Florida. The reason why-- they say they want to see a change to Stand Your Ground.
Tallahassee Resident, Rachel Crim said, "This is the first time I've heard of all they boycotting Florida Products." Just because you may not have heard about it doesn't mean its not happening.
Stevie Wonder says he won't tour his show in Florida, and Martin Luther King the Third mentioned during a NAACP meeting that people should stop buying and drinking Florida Orange Juice. Some celebrities, like these two, believe there should be change to Florida's 'Stand Your Ground' Law.
Another Tallahassee Resident Laurance McGriff said, "I think it's very important to reevaluate 'Stand Your Ground' law, and I think that celebrities should um use their voice to -- they use it for everything else. So I think they should use that on this issue as well."
Using their influence to affect Florida tourism and thus the economy. All in an effort to make statement that some aren't satisfied how the George Zimmerman case ended or with 'Stand Your Ground'.
Crim later said, "Honestly don't feel it's necessarily fair to punish an entire state based for the decisions of twelve jurors."
Now so far there isn't any information pin pointing how much these recent boycotts have truly affected Florida's Economy.
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Monday, July 29, 2013
Austrian flap over bell dedicated to Hitler
VIENNA (AP) ? Like many others in Austria's countryside, a tower bell above the red-tiled rooftops of Wolfpassing village marks the passing of each hour with an unspectacular "bong." But this bell is unique: It is embossed with a swastika and praise to Adolf Hitler.
And unlike more visible remnants of the Nazi era, the bell was apparently overlooked by official Austria up to now.
Ensconced in the belfry of an ancient castle where it was mounted by fans of the Nazi dictator in 1939, the bell has tolled on for nearly 80 years. It survived the defeat of Hitler's Germany, a decade of post-war Soviet occupation that saw Red Army soldiers lodge in the castle and more recent efforts by Austria's government to acknowledge the country's complicity in crimes of that era and make amends.
Some of those efforts have focused on identifying relics of that time and ensuring they're either removed or put in historical context. As an example, officials often cite government moral and material support for the restoration of the Mauthausen concentration camp, where a museum documents atrocities for school children and other visitors.
The Wolfpassing bell pays homage to Hitler for his 1938 annexation of Austria, a move supported back then by the vast majority of the nation's citizens. It describes Hitler as "the unifier and Fuehrer of all Germans" and says he freed the "Ostmark" ? Nazi jargon for Austria ? "from the yoke of suppression by foreign elements and brought it home into the Great-German Reich."
Local historian Johannes Kammerstaetter says most villagers would have known about it. But village mayor Josef Sonnleitner asserts even the villagers had no clue until the first media reports last month on the "Fuehrerglocke," or "Fuehrer Bell."
"Nobody cared until all this publicity," he said on the telephone. He refused a request for a longer interview, saying he was busy for the next two weeks with haying.
In any case, the government's recent sale of the castle ? with all its historical trappings ? has suddenly made the bell an issue beyond the sleepy village of 1,500 people about 100 kilometers (60 miles) west of Vienna.
In a country particularly sensitive about suggestions it has not fully faced its Nazi past, officials are scrambling for explanations of why the bell apparently evaded notice for so long. They also are under pressure to justify a ruling by the government agency in charge of historic monuments that it must remain part of the castle as part of its heritage? despite the refusal of the new owner to say what he plans to do with it.
Propagating Nazi values or praising the era is illegal in Austria. Kammerstaetter, the historian, has formally asked state prosecutors to examine whether the government's sale of the bell is a criminal offence. He says the change of ownership could constitute a case of "spreading National Socialist ideology" on the part of the government agency in charge of state-owned property
Raimund Fastenbauer, a senior official of Vienna's Jewish community, invokes other concerns, noting that other Hitler-era relics like the dictator's house of birth in the western town of Braunau have become a magnet for neo-Nazis.
"I think the best thing would be if the bell disappeared and was buried somewhere," he says.
For its part, the government says that the sale was legal, along with the decision to keep the bell in the belfry as an integral component of the castle.
Economics Minister Reinhold Mitterlehner says the agency overseeing the sale was not aware of the inscription.
He notes in a letter to Kammerstaetter that "the bell up to now was neither publicly displayed nor generally accessible," adding that he does not see the sale as constituting a criminal offense.
Ernst Eichinger, a spokesman for the agency responsible for government real-estate, says that with a portfolio of more than 28,000 buildings ? many of them huge ? "we cannot search every centimeter" before a sale.
Concerns are heightened by the lack of clarity about what the new owner, Tobias Hufnagl, plans to do with the relict. Two web domains linked to him or his holding company, hufnagl.cc and thinvestments.com, did not open.
Sonnleitner, the Wolfpassing mayor, says has not been able to directly contact Hufnagl, despite weeks of trying.
In a terse email this week responding to numerous Associated Press queries seeking permission to film the bell and asking about its fate, Hufnagl said he had "no interest" in exchanges with the AP.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/austrian-flap-over-bell-dedicated-hitler-091140297.html
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Sunday, July 28, 2013
PHOTOS: Reality TV Stars? Twitter Pictures Roundup ? July 27th
Our favorite reality TV stars cannot?get enough of the spotlight during their regularly scheduled time slots, so they take to Twitter to share even more of their daily lives with us. And we love them for it! Here's a roundup of some of our favorite photos from the Twitterverse this week! Enjoy!?
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Above: Real Housewives of New Jersey star Melissa Gorga?shared,?"Fun night with Joanna Krupa. #loveher."
Below you'll find Twitter pics from Kandi Burruss, Sheree Fletcher, Yolanda Foster, Teresa Giudice, Reza Farahan, Madison Hildebrand, and more.?
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Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Yolanda Foster: Dress up time with my family, GiGi Hadid, Bella Hadid, and Anwar Hadid. #proudmommy
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Big Brother's Jeff Schroeder: Fun #BBLiveChat with Kaitlin Barnaby today.?
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Shahs of Sunset star Reza Farahan: Me and my girl Mercedes "MJ"?Javid at my birthday.
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Kyle Richards: Party time!
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Teen Mom 2's Leah Messer Calvert: Mommy and girls
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Karent Sierra: Baby elephants rescued because their mothers were poached. #raiseawareness #elephants #babies
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Real Housewives of Atlanta star Kandi Burruss: Hanging out with Porsha Stewart! Friday night girl talk!
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Lisa Vanderpump: Not many people get to ride a DUCK.
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Million Dollar Listing L.A. star Madison Hildebrand: Me and my baby Maya.
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Lilly Ghalichi: Some guys buy you diamonds, others buy you diamond companies! Thank you to my friend Payam for the awesome bday gift, I'm officially an owner of Tiffany's!!?
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Real Housewives of New Jersey's Teresa Giudice: Hanging out at the dock with my little angel.
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Nick Uhas: Chilling with the Big Brother All-Star Mike Boogie Malin!!!!?
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Big Rich Texas stars Cindy Davis and Melissa Poe: Good times haha!
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Teresa Giudice: Awwww love to see this.
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Real Housewives of Miami star Joanna Krupa: Mynt baby!
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Jenelle Evans: It was nice seeing u Kail!
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Real Housewives of New York star Heather Thomson: Lu Lu in YUMS!?
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Reza Farahan: Del Mar Race Track with Asa, MJ, & Mike. GG was napping!
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Peter Thomas: MY WIFE!
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Duck Dynasty's Korie Robertson: Having a good time supporting a great cause. #HomesforHope
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Lydia McLaughlin: So fun to see Gretchen Rossi and support her swimsuit line.
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Kyle Richards: A wee bit concerning @scheanamarie @stassischroeder #splits #partytime
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Hollywood Exes star Sheree Fletcher: Awwww?look who Auntie Ree Ree is holding! Gia! We are thrilled for you Mayte!
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Marysol Patton: Mercedes Benz Swim Week w/ Alexia, Melissa, and Hot Joe!!?
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