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anxiousPolar bear plus grizzly equals? | ||||
  Clockwise: A female hybrid, male hybrid, polar bear and brown bear (all pictures courtesy of Alexandra Preuß) What do you get if you cross a polar bear with a grizzly brown bear? Scientists can now answer the question, following the first study of a polar bear/grizzly bear hybrid. Only one hybrid bear has ever been seen in the wild, so the study evaluated two hybrid bears kept in captivity, which are among 17 such bears known to exist. While each hybrid has inherited characteristics from either parent, some traits, such as partially hollow hair, appear to be a blend of the two. "Hybrids between polar and brown bears in the wild are very rare. Only one confirmed case is known," says Dr Ute Magiera, the conservation coordinator of Osnabruck Zoo in Germany.
That hybrid bear was shot in April 2006 by an American big game hunter on Banks Island, Northwest Territories, Canada. However, a small number of hybrid bears do exist in zoos in the Czech Republic, Israel, Russia, Spain, Poland and Germany as a result of grizzly bears, a subspecies of brown bear, and polar bears being held in the same enclosures. At Osnabruck Zoo, for example, both species were kept together since 1980, producing no offspring. Then in January 2004, a female brown bear gave birth to two brown/polar bear hybrids at the zoo. "We were surprised about the offspring, because for 24 years nothing happened," says Dr Magiera.  Spot the hybrid: From left to right, female hybrid, male hybrid, polar bear and brown bear Soon after their birth, the hybrids were moved to another zoo, preventing them from learning any behaviours from either parent. Now Dr Magiera, Dr Alexandra Preuß of the University of Osnabruck and Osnabruck Zoo and colleagues have published details of the hybrid bears in the scientific journal Der Zoologische Garten. Physically, the hybrids have a range of characteristics. In terms of overall size, they fall between the larger polar bear and slightly smaller grizzly. They have longer necks more typical of polar bears, but also display small shoulder humps reminiscent of brown bears.
The size and shape of their heads is intermediate between the thicker-set brown bear and more slender-headed polar bear. Hybrids have visible tails, like polar bears, whereas those of brown bears are barely apparent. The bears' feet are also an intriguing blend. The soles of the hybrids' feet are partially covered in hair. Polar bear feet are covered in hair to insulate them from the ice, whereas brown bears have hairless soles and clearly visible toes. But most intriguing is the bears' hair. When viewed as a cross section, the shaft of a brown bear's hair is either solid or full of small hollow regions, depending on where the hair is on the bear's body. The hair of a polar bear is almost completely hollow, with large empty regions within its core.  The shaft of the hair from a hybrid bear has hollow pockets, compared with the hollow shaft of polar bear hair, and closed shaft of brown bear hair The hair of the hybrid bears display a blend of both. Hair on the paw of the male hybrid is solid. But dark hair on the male's back is hollow, but with smaller empty regions than found in polar bear hair. The hair on the female contains a range of hollow regions. Behaviourally, the two hybrids have much in common with polar bears. When given large toys to play with, such as tractor wheels or barrels, both bears used their front legs to stamp on the object, just as polar bears stamp onto ice to break through to seal dens.  Hybrid bear feet are partially covered with fur; polar bear feet are fully covered and brown bear feet uncovered The hyrbids also used their teeth to hurl jute-bags from left to right, as polar bears may hurl prey. Brown bears given similar bags do not show this behaviour. The male hybrid bear has been sterilised. But if the female proves fertile, it suggests that hybrid bears could continue to breed in the wild if their ranges overlap more, says Dr Magiera. Brown bears (Ursus arctos) and polar bears (Ursus maritimus) split into distinct species around 200-300,000 years ago. Generally, their modern ranges don't overlap; the brown bear is found in the montane forests of the Holarctic and tundra, while the polar bear frequents the Arctic.  Hybrid bears lay down just as polar bears do However, in some regions of the Canadian Arctic and Siberia, brown bears do venture on to pack ice, potential bringing them into contact with their more northerly relative. Some experts say that global warming and diminishing ice packs will lead to polar bears spending more time on the mainland. While some think that a few populations of polar bear may return permanently to their original mainland habitat, others say that climatic changes will happen too fast for the bears to adapt. | ||||
From the whispers of the heart
Comes the mind of the eagle.
Soar above the field of troubles
And see the Truth that lies before you.
It is endless,
And it is brought about through the eye of the beholder.
For he who sees through the mind of the one,
Sees through the heart of the All.
We hebben allemaal wel eens ergens last van. Vaak is het slechts een momentopname en verdwijnt de klacht snel. Hebt u echter last van een combinatie van symptomen uit de hiernavolgende lijst? Klachten waar geen aanwijsbare medische redenen voor zijn? Dan kunt u last hebben van hyperventilatie,angst/paniek.
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| • Dood of tintelend gevoel in voeten | • Onwerkelijk gevoel |
| • Dood of tintelend gevoel in het gezicht | • Onrust |
| • Tintelende tong | • Depressief gevoel |
| • Koude rillingen | • Nervositeit |
| • Slap of zwaar gevoel in je benen | • Concentratiestoornissen |
| • Fobieen |
| Centraal zenuwstelsel | Long- en luchtwegen |
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| • Duizeligheid | • Ademnood |
| • Gevoel van flauw vallen | • Ademnood - vooral 's nachts - |
| • Dubbelzien | • Vaak zuchten geeuwen |
| • Flauw vallen | • Prop in je keel |
| • Lage rugpijn | • Benauwdheid gevoel |
| • Licht gevoel in je hoofd | • Druk op de borst |
| • Vaak urineren | • Keelkriebels, kuchen |
| • Duizeligheid bij zitten en of liggen | • Frequent ademen, hijgen |
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Big drama in court today. Baby Daddy Naveen Andrews gains even more ground in his bid to oust the mother, Elena Eustache from the child's life.
Hired gun attorney, Laura Wasser, 6 and a half months pregnant herself, had no trouble convincing Judge Elizabeth Feffer to give Mr. Andrews everything he asked for. Eugene Salmonsen, there to represent the mother, a citizen of the Czech Republic and France, could say nothing to sway the decision.
At issue was the mother's right to choose her own visitation monitor. Ms. Wasser compared that to letting a prisoner choose her own jailer.
Mr. Salmonsen pointed out that the purpose of a monitor is different than the purpose of a jailer.
I wanted to ask why a jailer/monitor was imposed at all if the mother was not allowed to present a defense as in criminal court. But I was not invited to the party, so I just sat back and listened.
Judge Feffer granted the request that the Lost star have complete control over who the monitor would be. Attorney Wasser assured the court the cost would be on par with other monitors who charge $100 to $150 per hour to make sure Mom doesn't nab the kid. The mother bears the cost.
Here is the ringer: Andrews spends about 9 months per year filming in Hawaii. His schedule is haphazard, at the whim of the production company. The mother is required to pay travel expenses from L.A. to Hawaii for the monitor, so she can spend her limited hours with her child. It was not clear how much the mother would need to pay the monitor during down time.
Maybe t.v. stars don't make as much as we think they make, or Judge Feffer would require the father to contribute. He is, after all, the one schlepping the child to his work location.
There was a bit of mystery involved, as the Czech Consulate sent a package to the court in regards to the beautiful Ms. Eustache. The attorneys reviewed the contents of the envelope in the hallway and decided not to have it admitted to the judge. Perhaps with the attention of the European community on this case, the court may make a show of upholding the principals of democracy and freedom espoused in the Constitution.
Now, I hate to get my information from the National Enquirer, but they have a bigger research budget than I do. It was reported that Andrews denied any relationship with the Baby Mama until after a DNA test. According to the Enquirer, at the age of 16 Andrews bedded his married math teacher and spawned his 13 year old son.
And Wikipedia reports that Andrews suffered from alcoholism and was a heroin addict for two years.
I suppose Judge Feffer thought no paid monitor needed for him, since his steady on again off again significant other Barbara Hershey is 62 and may be mature enough to handle both the four year old and the father.
If you have interesting stories involving Judge Elizabeth Feffer, attorneys with as much pull as Wasser or just want to chat, email Bohemian_books@yahoo.com
A tsunami triggered by a strong quake in the South Pacific has killed more than 100 people in several islands.
At least 77 people were reported dead in Samoa, more than 25 in American Samoa and at least six in Tonga.
Islam is introduced in the storyline by a leading character; Sayid, who is of Muslim faith. Like many other characters, Sayid can be considered to have undergone a transition towards faith and spirituality, which in his case became a strong factor in helping him atone for his past. Given the nature of Islam is introduced in the storyline by a leading character; Sayid, who is of Muslim faith. Like many otherIslam as a wide range system of beliefs, overlapping the fate and free will dilemma, as well as views on redemption, a number of Sayid’s actions and emotional struggles on the Island can be explained in the light of its inspirations. During the past seasons, Sayid was seen practicing a number of Islamic rituals, as well as making faith-inspired decisions, referencing his faith at both explicit and implicit levels.
Among the main explicit references, comes Praying (Salat), which Sayid was seen practicing on and off the Island with different mindsets. Hence, comes its importance in portraying his Faith Journey. Prior to the crash, a flashback of Sayid revealed his employment of praying as a means of approaching Essam, to fulfill the task he was blackmailed into by the CIA. His desire to claim Essam’s body to provide a proper Islamic burial delayed his flight, causing him to board the fated Flight 815. Furthermore, during his time on the Island, Sayid was seen on the Sailboat praying again, this time, however, as a means of connecting to God, to strengthen his faith and attain a spiritual support, before what could be a deadly confrontation with the Others. Another reference to praying was made, when Sayid visited Shannon’s grave, and left his praying breads at the cross, in what also seemed to be a symbol of bridging between religions. (”The Greater Good”)
Position on burials. During the events of “Walkabout”, Sayid suggested the burial of the deceased bodies from The middle section and opposed Jack’s practical decision to burn them along with the fuselage. He felt that neither he nor Jack had the right to make such a decision which may disregard the wishes and religious beliefs of the deceased.
After the death of Essam in Sydney, the Australian government prepared to cremate his body, having no one to claim the body. Sayid was compelled to claim the body of Essam in order to avoid the cremation of his Muslim friend. (”The Greater Good”)
Salvation. After torturing Sawyer, Sayid departs on a solitary journey. (”Confidence Man”)
Testimony of faith. While hanging up in Rousseau’s trap and thinking he would die, he is heard saying the Islamic testimony of Faith (Shahadah), which are the last words a Muslim says before his death, if able to. (”Solitary”)
Belief in Qadr, fate or divine destiny. One of the doctrines of Islam is Qadr, fate or divine destiny. Fate is one of the persistent themes of LOST. Although it is not certain, Sayid is most probably a Sunni. Evidence for this include the following: he is from Tikrit (per S106, House of the Rising Sun). Tikrit is part of the predominantly Sunni area of Iraq. In S109, Solitary, while he tortures a prisoner named Falah, he refers to Shiites in a manner that implies he is Sunni: “You want me to stop, Falah? . . . Your Shiite friends have already implicated you in the bombing. You planted the device in the Bathist headquarters, didn’t you?” Although Qadr is a doctrine common throughout Islam, it is emphasized in Sunni Islam as one of the six articles of belief. In S2E23, “Live Together, Die Alone”, Sayid refers to fate in a way that implies he at least partially believes in it: “On the way to the funeral I told you that Michael had been compromised by the Others, and then you asked me how we might take advantage of that. I believe fate has given us our answer — the boat.” In general, however, Sayid speaks and acts as if his words and actions can have a direct effect on events, which implies a practical belief in free will.
In Season 4, a Qur’an, the religious text of Islam, is seen on Ben’s bookshelf. (”The Economist”)
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goodExtinction hits 'whole families' | |||||
Whole "chunks of life" are lost in extinction events, as related species vanish together, say scientists. A study in the journal Science shows that extinctions tend to "cluster" on evolutionary lineages - wiping out species with a common ancestor. The finding is based on an examination of past extinctions, but could help current conservation efforts. Researchers say that this phenomenon can result in the loss of an entire branch of the "tree of life". The message for modern conservation, say the authors, is that some groups are more vulnerable to extinction than others, and the focus should be on the lineages most at risk. Lead researcher Kaustuv Roy, a biologist from the University of California, San Diego, focused on marine bivalves - including clams, oysters and mussels. The fossil record for these creatures dates back almost 200 million years. By tracing this documented timeline of evolution and extinction, the team was able to see the effects of "background extinctions" as well as the mass extinctions, such as the one around 65 million years ago during which the dinosaurs finally died out.
Many species have become extinct during the relatively stable periods between those global calamities. But even during such quiet periods, the team found that extinctions tended to cluster into evolutionary families - with closely-related species of clams vanishing together more often than would be predicted by chance. Richard Grenyer, a biologist from Imperial College London, who was not involved in the study, told BBC News that by going "way back into the fossil record" this study provided important evidence of the patterns of extinction. "Big groups of organisms tend to be similar to one another," he explained. "Look at the large cats for example." But genetic similarities also mean, said Dr Grenyer, that "a bad effect that affects one of them, will likely affect all of them". "It's like a casino of extinctions, with the odds rigged against certain groups." Life's library According to this pattern, the study's authors point out, extinctions are likely to eliminate entire branches of the evolutionary tree. Professor Roy said: "If you have whole lineages more vulnerable than others, then very soon, even with relatively moderate levels of extinction, you start to lose a lot of evolutionary history."
Julie Lockwood, an ecologist from Rutgers University in New Jersey, US, who did not take part in this study, explained that because extinction events "hit certain lineages extremely hard... we lose whole chunks of life." "There are examples of modern species where the same thing is happening," she told BBC News. "In seabirds for example, the same drivers - climatic change and habitat loss - are threatening whole groups of species." Richard Greyner likened this loss to a fire in a library. "Because whole sections are lost - the whole of the physics section, or all of the romantic fiction, the overall loss is much worse than if you randomly burned every 400th book." But Dr Grenyer said that this evidence could help to drive more focused, and therefore more effective conservation efforts. "We can use this information," he said. "It doesn't make the conservation of individual species any easier, but if we know the sorts of things that affect tigers, we can infer conservation biology about the tiger's close relatives." | |||||
PASADENA, Calif. -- The breaking news out of Iran is a major news story with significant historical implications. For veteran CNN chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour, though, it's much more than that. It's personal.
Amanpour is of Persian descent. Her family fled Iran during the 1979 Islamic Revolution, when she was 21-years-old -- six years younger than Neda Agha Soltan, who was shot dead on the streets of Tehran last June 20. Soltan's death, captured by amateur video, has become the defining image of the street protests in Iran.
For Amanpour, who told 60 Minutes' Lesley Stahl last month that, as a reporter, she avoids judgment and prefers to tell only what she saw, the news in Iran has been a test of her personal objectivity as a journalist.
After all, Amanpour also told the New York Times, in a 1996 story following the first Gulf War, that there are some situations one simply cannot be neutral about, "because when you are neutral you are an accomplice. Objectivity doesn't mean treating all sides equally. It means giving each side a hearing."
"I'm half-Iranian, I was raised in Iran and I've also been covering Iran as a journalist for the last 20 years," Amanpour said in an exclusive interview with Canwest News Service about Generation Islam, which premieres next month (Aug. 13) on CNN. It's Amanpour's follow-up to her controversial 2007 documentary series God's Warriors.
"I have been able to separate the personal from the professional.
"Having said that, I strongly believe that my background enables me to see a depth there that many others don't, people who don't know it. I've always tried to get behind the stereotype, get behind the cliche and show the real Iran is, the substantive Iran. I've covered many elections. This is, I think, a very important moment in the history of modern Iran and the history of the Islamic Republic, 30 years after its birth.
"There's obviously, now, a clear tension between those who've come out and say they want reform and those who want to keep Iran in the fundamentalist reality of the revolution. What's happening is very interesting to me as a journalist, very interesting for those in the region and for the United States, who all grapple with how to deal with Iran and its nuclear ambitions and all the other issues."
Iranian authorities told Amanpour to leave the country last month after her 10-day work permit expired. CNN is highly visible in Iran, and closely monitored by the authorities there.
"It became very dangerous," Amanpour said, "because so many journalists were caught up in this and arrested and basically manhandled, because the Iranian regime decided that this was all a foreign plot and the journalists were representatives of the foreign plotters and conspirators. And so they took it out on the journalists. Right now, Iran now holds more journalists in jail than even China does.
"Now, there's been a new development -- today. President Ahmadinejad has written a letter to the head of the judiciary, basically telling him to process all those in jail, rapidly. Let's see what that means.
"It's a very tense, difficult situation. It's obviously difficult to cover, particularly since most journalists are not allowed in at the moment. But it is also a really important part of the world. I've been grappling with it for the last 20 years. And now, because of this election, it has exploded into the consciousness of America. And that's a good thing. Iran is not going to go away, and it's going to require a lot of attention."
Aside from Generation Islam, Amanpour's other projects include hosting a new, hour-long Sunday afternoon interview program, also on CNN, in September. An expanded, five-night-a-week version of that program will air weeknights on CNN International.
Iran isn't just a story for the mainstream news programs, though.
So-called mock news programs like The Colbert Report and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart play an important role in opening outsiders' eyes, especially young people, to what's going on in Iran, Amanpour said.
Amanpour was particularly impressed with Daily Show correspondent Jason Jones' satirical documentary series "Behind the Veil," which aired last month and was modelled after some of Amanpour's own news programs.
Two prominent Iranian moderates Jones interviewed, former foreign minister Ebrahim Yazdi and Islamic cleric Mohammad Ali Abtahi, were subsequently arrested by Iranian authorities.
"These are two people who I know very well," Amanpour said. "What Jon Stewart did so well is what great satirists do, and that is expose the hypocrisy and the ignorance of the viewers, not the actual situation on the ground.
"What he did was say, 'OK, Americans called Iran part of an axis of evil. Everybody's a terrorist. Everybody's a fundamentalist. We're going to look at that.' They weren't committing real journalism. What they were doing really was committing intelligent and valuable satire on a really important issue. They went out and made a mockery of the notion that all Iranians are ignorant, that all Iranians are terrorists, that all Iranians are evil. And it was really good, for that reason. Because, through their own brand of intelligent humour, they pulled back the veil."
For more coverage of the television critics' summer press tour, go to www.canada.com/tvguy
Kabels geleiden en staan bijna overal met elkaar in verbinding. Een inslag bij je in de buurt kan dus via de kabels ook jouw huis in komen. Tot spectaculaire taferelen zal dat niet leiden, maar er ontstaat wel een spanningspiek op de stopcontacten. Apparatuur kan daar wel enigszins tegen, maar niet onbeperkt. Als je stopcontact opeens even 240 volt geeft is dat geen probleem, als het ineens 270 volt wordt wel. Trouwens: als de bliksem echt dichtbij inslaat kan zelfs elektronica zonder kabel het begeven.
Bliksem slaat weliswaar makkelijker in een goed geleidende voorwerpen zoals metaal. Maar het kán overal inslaan. Zelfs in mensen. Dat kan dodelijk zijn, maar is het niet per se. Jaarlijks komen n Nederland gemiddeld zo’n vijf mensen om door blikseminslag. De Amerikaan Roy Sullivan overleefde liefst zeven blikseminslagen.
Ook al gebeurt het zelden, bij een blikseminslag in de buurt zal de stroom zijn weg zoeken door onder meer waterleidingen. Metalen leidingen geleiden al goed, met stromend water erin wordt dat nog veel beter. Je bad of douche kan fataal worden. Ook al is de kans zeer klein; het kán wel.
Vaak wordt gedacht dat gebouwen in de buurt van een bliksemafleider beschermd zijn tegen bliksem. De bliksemafleider zou eventuele inslagen aantrekken en dus weghouden van andere gebouwen. Dat is niet waar. Omdat ze vaak op hogere gebouwen staat, zal de bliksem inderdaad veelal daar inslaan, maar met de bliksemafleider zelf heeft dat niets te maken. Die doet niets meer dan de bliksem –als die daar dan toch inslaat- probleemloos richting aarde afvoeren.
Het is bij velen bekend en dat is maar goed ook: er zijn weinig veiliger plaatsen tegen bliksem dan in de auto. De bliksem kan gerust recht op je auto inslaan, als je binnen zit en de portieren dichthoudt kan er niets gebeuren. Garanties geven we echter niet: Natuurlijk kan er nog steeds een boom omvallen op je auto en als je blijft rijden met onweer kan het noodweer of de schrik van een inslag net zo veel schade aanrichten. Aan de bestuurder althans. Grote kans dat wel alle elektronica bij het oud vuil kan.
Je auto heeft door de blikseminslag een flinke elektrische lading opgelopen en het enige contact met de grond zijn de banden van rubber. In theorie zou het dus moeten kloppen dat je auto eerst moet ontladen voor je veilig kunt uitstappen. Alleen: in de praktijk zal het niet gebeuren dat je bij stralend, zonnig en krukdroog weer door de bliksem wordt getroffen. Door de regen is je auto die lading vanzelf zo weer kwijt. Bovendien zijn je banden zelden schoon genoeg om echt te isoleren. Je mag er van uitgaan dat je auto binnen een minuut gewoon ontladen is. En waarom zou je zo snel de regen in willen?
Jackson Burns (Frank Langella, "Junior," "Dave," "Dracula") is an iconoclastic media mogul who's built a 24-hour broadcast news organization that's like no other. Unlike your run-of-the-mill news service, his team of dedicated reporters not only cover the stories but are themselves covered as part of the story. Cameras in the halls, the cars, behind closed doors - everywhere - document the process at World News Service (WNS) - a.k.a. "The Beast" - and the feeds from those cameras are broadcast live to the world via the Internet, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.München - Uli Roth hat schon gewusst, was passieren würde. Ihm war klar: Wenn ich jetzt zum Professor gehe, dann wird er mir sagen, dass ich Krebs habe. Genau so war es dann auch.
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So kannte man sie in München: Michael Roth (links) und sein Bruder Uli 1986 im Trikot des MTSV Schwabing
Die heimtückische Krankheit hat sich eingenistet im Körper des ehemaligen Handball-
Und wie fühlt sich das an, wenn es einem passiert? Wenn man erfährt, dass man Krebs hat? Michael Roth sagt: „Bei mir war es ein völliger Schock, aber bei meinem Bruder war es anders, eher nach dem Salami-
Gut für die Roths: Als ehemalige Leistungssportler (beide spielten in Schwabing) haben sie einen starken Willen. Michael: „Sportler haben eine kämpferische Einstellung. Das hilft viel, wenn man krank ist.“ Trotzdem wandern die Gedanken da auf einmal in völliges Neuland. Michael erzählt: „Wenn man erfährt, dass man Krebs hat, dann hat man auf einmal eine Verbindung mit dem Tod. Man taucht dann in diesen Ich-
Uli Heichele
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We were surprised about the offspring, because for 24 years nothing happened 
It's like a casino of extinctions, with the odds rigged against certain groups 
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