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Monday, October 31
Arts Groups Pessimistic Over Prospects for Culture Downtown
by
salvador rosillo
on Mon 31 Oct 2005 12:14 PM EST
Published: October 31, 2005
For downtown arts groups struggling with the void left by the 9/11 attacks, a 2002 "blueprint for renewal" seemed full of promise. Drafted by the agency in charge of rebuilding in Lower Manhattan, it pledged to develop "a critical mass of dynamic, enticing and diverse cultural venues" there.
The agency, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, also promised to help cultural institutions in the area - and those that might be thinking of relocating downtown - to find the sites and the money they would need to expand or move.
Three years later, the development corporation has accomplished practically none of the above. The number of cultural groups, including libraries, below Canal Street now, according to the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, a nonprofit advocacy organization, has plummeted to 112, from 200 before 9/11. The $45 million that the development corporation set aside last May for cultural groups that are not part of the master plan at ground zero has yet to be distributed.
Tom Healy, the president of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, expressed frustration over the delay. "Nothing has happened," he said. "There is no plan. There is no group that's been chosen to help them give that out yet. And it would make a huge difference now, that kind of money."
Given the gradual evaporation of planned cultural organizations at the ground zero site itself, many downtown arts groups are pessimistic.
The Freedom Center was dropped from the site last month by Gov. George E. Pataki in response to objections from the families of some 9/11 victims who wanted a strictly patriotic memorial focus; the Drawing Center, which had sought to relocate from SoHo, was forced out for similar reasons. Both had been chosen in June 2004 to share a museum building designed by the Norwegian firm Snohetta.
"We're all pretty upset about it," said Holly Block, the executive director of Art in General, an alternative art space on Walker Street. "It's very problematic that it's been politicized."
Contributing to the bleak picture, a performing arts center that was to be designed for the ground zero site by Frank Gehry and shared by the Joyce Theater, which presents dance, and the Signature Theater, an Off Broadway company, is on the back burner. And Anita Contini, the point person for culture on the development corporation, resigned from that post in July and is unlikely to be replaced.
While many arts groups have stuck it out downtown and several are trying to upgrade their operations, all say they could use more help. Three-Legged Dog, a media and theater group, has been struggling since Tower 7 fell on its headquarters at 30 West Broadway. The company cut its staff from 27 to 2, suspended salaries for nine months and stopped production for a year and a half.
The group decided that the route to survival was building a new home. It has managed to raise $3 million toward a $4.6 million arts complex, now under construction at 80 Greenwich Street. But there is still $1.6 million to go.
Three-Legged Dog said it had asked the development corporation for help but never heard back. "We've had a request to them for about three years now," said Kevin Cunningham, the company's executive artistic director.
Members of Dance New Amsterdam, a nonprofit dance service organization, say they asked the development corporation for $1 million two years ago but also never received any response. "I think everyone is so discouraged about L.M.D.C.," said Charles D. Wright, the group's executive director. Still, the dance group managed to raise $4.5 million over the last few years for a new 25,000-square-foot space, now under construction at 280 Broadway in the Sun building. Such arts groups have managed to endure mostly through contributions from various foundations, individuals and local downtown groups, like the cultural council, which was given $5 million from the Sept. 11 Fund to distribute in the first three years after 9/11. "With the cultural plan stalled at ground zero, it's all the more important that the rest of what goes on culturally gets supported," Mr. Healy said.
The development corporation has been noticeably absent from this effort, arts groups say. "They've said all along that they are going to be helping people in the neighborhood," said Mr. Cunningham of 3-Legged Dog.
A Funeral Home Investigation Considers the Macabre
by
salvador rosillo
on Mon 31 Oct 2005 12:10 PM EST
Published: October 31, 2005
Investigators are pursuing a criminal inquiry involving macabre dealings in mortuaries and unseemly sales of flesh and bone.
Investors in a Brooklyn funeral home have told the police that they suspect an embalmer improperly removed body parts. The embalmer had connections to a dentist whose business, Biomedical Tissue Services of Fort Lee, N.J., sold human tissue to processing companies, a legitimate but poorly understood niche of medical science. The police quietly pursued the investigation for more than a year until it was disclosed in newspapers this month.
Now investigators are following an abundance of leads from people identifying themselves as relatives of victims, a law enforcement official said, adding that no charges had been filed and no grand jury convened. The federal Food and Drug Administration has warned the public that Biomedical Tissue Services may have obtained tissue without getting proper consent from donors or screening the tissue for disease, and that some of that tissue may have been implanted in patients. Law enforcement officials spoke on condition of anonymity because there have been no charges and the investigation is unfinished.
The notion of a clandestine human chop shop has attracted some of the familiar characters of New York scandal. Sanford Rubenstein, the lawyer best known for representing the Rev. Al Sharpton and Abner Louima, went before five television cameras to announce a civil lawsuit on behalf of a man who said that tissue had been taken from his father's body. Mr. Rubenstein said that he was also taking calls from other people who were making similar claims.
The case's origins trace to a complicated disagreement over the sale of a funeral home in Brooklyn.
A couple operating the funeral home approached the police and prosecutors more than a year ago with accusations of fraud, an investigator and the law enforcement official said. An offhand remark developed into an accusation that the embalmer was returning bodies with parts missing, and the embalmer's business connections to the dentist led to questions about the possibility of sales of improperly obtained tissue.
Since the investigation was disclosed in The Daily News on Oct. 7, its twists and turns have given tabloid editors occasion to design headlines with the words "ghouls," "ghoulish" and "harvest" and the phrase "Body-Snatch Probe Widens."
Tales of stolen body parts are timelessly resonant, tied to the sanctity of dying and fear of the unknown. The 1978 movie "Coma," directed by Michael Crichton, told a fictional story of doctors stealing organs from patients. For years, the State Department has sought to dispel rumors of an international trade in baby organs, distributing materials that quote the French folklorist Veronique Campion-Vincent: "The baby-parts story is a new - updated and technologized - version of an immemorial fable."
Two central themes of the New York story have drawn scrutiny in recent years. In 2002, oversight of the funeral industry was much discussed after the discovery of 280 bodies dumped in the woods near a Georgia crematory. And last year, the underground market for body parts was underscored by a scandal at the University of California, Los Angeles, where an employee was accused of conspiring to sell body parts.
Experts say the nature of these fears is evolving as advances in technology make more parts of the body useful and consequently valuable. An area of medical science once mostly limited to whole vital organs like hearts, livers and kidneys has expanded to include muscle, bone, tendon and skin used in therapies and research.
And an aging population with the resources to pay for health care options has increased demand, said Doug Wilson, vice president of LifeNet, a nonprofit organ donation and tissue banking system in Virginia Beach, Va.
"This story has been written with different players - the names are now changed - over the last 10 years," Mr. Wilson said. "There's more use of tissue today because orthopedic and neurosurgery are increasing because baby boomers are getting older. They want to remain active and golf and play tennis and jog five miles and keep their cholesterol levels down."
As the industry has grown, the possibility of infection from diseased tissue has become a concern. A galvanizing case was the death in 2001 of Brian Lykins, 23, who received tainted tissue during knee surgery in Minnesota. In May, the Food and Drug Administration enacted safety standards for tissue processors, governing labeling, packaging and distribution.
That agency is one of several investigating the New York case. Law enforcement officials and representatives of people involved in the inquiry say the case can be traced to the sale of the Daniel George & Son Funeral Home in Bensonhurst. Records in Kings County Supreme Court show that Daniel George Jr. signed an agreement in March 2002 to sell the home to Joseph Nicelli of Staten Island.
The Selling of Al Jazeera TV to an International Market
by
salvador rosillo
on Mon 31 Oct 2005 12:00 PM EST
By ERIC PFANNER
and DOREEN CARVAJAL,
International Herald Tribune
Published: October 31, 2005 more »
Rooms With Views Replace Factories on Hudson's Banks
by
salvador rosillo
on Mon 31 Oct 2005 08:01 AM EST
By LISA W. FODERARO
Published: October 31, 2005 more »
Sunday, October 30
From Your Living Room to the World, via Podcast
by
salvador rosillo
on Sun 30 Oct 2005 07:39 PM EST
By ANNE EISENBERG
Published: October 30, 2005 more »
Salty, Spicy and Seldom Minced
by
salvador rosillo
on Sun 30 Oct 2005 07:27 PM EST
By SETH MYDANS
Published: October 30, 2005 more »
Saturday, October 29
By Pouring It On, Bloomberg Risks Talk of Overkill
by
salvador rosillo
on Sat 29 Oct 2005 08:58 AM EDT
By JIM RUTENBERG and PATRICK D. HEALY
Published: October 29, 2005 more »
Good Smell Vanishes, But It Leaves Air of Mystery
by
salvador rosillo
on Sat 29 Oct 2005 08:52 AM EDT
By ANTHONY DePALMA
Published: October 29, 2005
The night air all over Manhattan was brisk, with a hint of winter and a dash of something sweetly out of the ordinary. Some thought it smelled like maple syrup. Some said caramel, or a freshly baked pie, or Bit-O-Honey candy bars.
From downtown Manhattan to the Upper East Side, Prospect Heights in Brooklyn and parts of Staten Island, the question was the same on Thursday night and into early yesterday: What was that smell?
The aroma not only revived memories of childhood, but in a city scared by terrorism, it raised vague worries about an attack deviously cloaked in the smell of grandma's kitchen.
It was so seductive that many New Yorkers found themselves behaving strangely, succumbing to urges usually kept under wraps. One woman who never touches the stuff said she was inspired to eat ice cream.
Late yesterday, nearly 24 hours after the smell had spread through the city, sparking hundreds of bewildered calls to the city's 311 emergency hot line, officials said that they had determined that the smell had not been hazardous and that it had dissipated as quickly, and mysteriously, as it had appeared.
Even after chasing down anonymous tips and chasing up several blind alleys, however, they did not know where it had come from.
The odor was first detected around 8 p.m. on Thursday in Lower Manhattan. It seemed to spread quickly uptown and into parts of the other boroughs - so quickly that officials expressed concern. The city's Office of Emergency Management sent out feelers to the Police and Fire Departments, state emergency response agencies in New York and New Jersey, and the United States Coast Guard, which communicated with tugboats and container ships at sea to determine whether the odor was being detected there.
Raymond W. Kelly, the New York City police commissioner, coolly told reporters yesterday that tests and air monitoring had revealed "nothing of a hazardous nature."
"It's believed to be some sort of food substance, but we can't substantiate that at this time," Mr. Kelly said. He confirmed that the source of the smell seemed to be in Lower Manhattan.
The chase led the city's environmental bloodhounds to some interesting places. Investigators working on a tip checked the Jacques Torres Chocolate Haven in SoHo, but the owner insisted he had not been the culprit. His staff had spent the afternoon roasting almonds, he said. And anyway, chocolate, for those who really know, smells bitter, not sweet.
"Perhaps if it was a chocolate smell, people would be running here today," Mr. Torres said from his shop, which he said was no busier than normal for a Friday in autumn. His chef, Susana Garcia, 31, who was on duty Thursday, said the mysterious odor was definitely more like maple syrup than like chocolate. It was, Mr. Torres said, a kind of warm-your-heart holiday smell appropriate for this time of year.
If there was anyone in New York who could recognize the aroma of maple syrup, it would be a Canadian like Jeff Breithaupt, 42, cultural affairs officer at the Canadian Consulate in New York. He said he was out running on the Upper East Side last night when the smell came to him. Right away, he thought it was caramel candy.
A labor organizer, Rekha Eanni, said she could not characterize the exact smell, but after getting out of a night class at New York University she was overcome with a craving for pumpkin pie. When she got home there was no pie, so she did something she never does.
"I made myself a pretty big bowl of vanilla ice cream with honey and cornflakes," she said.
Experts say that no human sense is more directly connected to the emotions than the sense of smell. "Before we know we are even in contact with a smell we have already received it and reacted to it," a professional perfumer, Mandy Aftel, said. "Smells come in without language and go directly to the emotional center of the brain. That's why they are so connected to memory."
As soon as he smelled the mystery smell, Greg Nickson, 45, a freelance cameraman, was transported, like Marcel Proust, to things past, things like the chocolate factory that flooded his childhood neighborhood in Chicago with sweet aromas.
When he poked his head out of his 10th-floor apartment window to look for his wife, Mr. Nickson got a good whiff of it, and it puzzled him.
"I thought," he said. " 'How could the smell be so pervasive?' "
With the cold nighttime air trapped under a lid of warm air over the city, and only a 3-mile-an-hour wind, any odor would have been kept low to the ground, where it could have slipped between buildings to work its way uptown and to the other boroughs, said Patrick Kinney, an associate professor of environmental science at Columbia University.
When Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg was asked at City Hall about the smell, he repeated that tests showed it was not dangerous.
With the mayor enjoying a sizable lead in polls about the upcoming election, someone asked whether it struck him as, perhaps, the sweet smell of success.
He gave an enigmatic answer. "Nature," the mayor said, "should be allowed to take care of its own."
Kareem Fahim and Colin Moynihan contributed reporting for this article.
Friday, October 28
China Luring Foreign Scholars to Make Its Universities Great
by
salvador rosillo
on Fri 28 Oct 2005 08:16 AM EDT
By HOWARD W. FRENCH
Published: October 28, 2005 more »
Thursday, October 27
Investigation of Towers' Fall Is Criticized
by
salvador rosillo
on Thu 27 Oct 2005 12:26 PM EDT
By ERIC LIPTON
Published: October 27, 2005 more »
New York Insider Is a Proud Outsider
by
salvador rosillo
on Thu 27 Oct 2005 09:12 AM EDT
By GLENN COLLINS
Published: October 27, 2005 more »
Presidente iraní desata la furia
by
salvador rosillo
on Thu 27 Oct 2005 08:55 AM EDT
El presidente iraní hizo los comentarios en la conferencia "El mundo sin sionismo".
3.000 estudiantes atendieron la conferencia contra Israel. El presidente de Irán, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, declaró que Israel debía ser borrado del mapa. Sus palabras están siendo duramente condenadas tanto en Europa como en Estados Unidos. Todos los miembros del grupo de países europeos que han estado negociando con Teherán por su controvertido programa nuclear -el Reino Unido, Francia y Alemania- han criticado con vehemencia sus comentarios.
París dijo que citaría al embajador iraní en su país para que explicara los comentarios de su mandatario. El canciller español, Miguel Angel Moratinos, convocó también al diplomático que representa a Irán en Madrid para que hiciera lo mismo. Canadá anunció más tarde que tomaría una medida similar.
Alemania dijo que, de ser ciertas, las palabras del mandatario iraní eran completamente inaceptables.
Por su parte, el presidente de la Comisión Europea, José Manuel Barroso, condenó las declaraciones del líder iraní diciendo que son totalmente inaceptables.
En conversación con la BBC, el portavoz del ministerio de Exteriores israelí, Mark Sergev, dijo que "cualquiera que quiera ver a israelíes y palestinos viviendo en paz (...) tiene que ver estos elementos de extremismo islámico: tanto si es por parte del líder iraní, como si es por parte de grupos en Siria, de Hizbola en Líbano, de Hamas y la Jihad islámica en los territorios palestinos, todos son parte del problema".
Entre tanto, un vocero del presidente de Estados Unidos, George W. Bush, dijo que los comentarios de Ahmadinejad claramente intensifican las inquietudes respecto al programa nuclear iraní, que la Casa Blanca sospecha está siendo usado para desarrollar armas.
El Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores del Reino Unido se había pronunciado con palabras similares a las de Washington, añadiendo que lo dicho por el presidente iraní era "repugnante y profundamente molesto". El jueves planea expresarle su desagrado claramente a la embajada iraní.
Ahmadinejad hizo sus comentarios durante una conferencia en Teherán que lleva el nombre de "El mundo sin el sionismo", en la que participaron unos 3.000 estudiantes conservadores.
De vuelta al pasado
Como señala la corresponsal de la BBC Pam O'Toole, los comentarios de Ahmadinejad sobre Israel parecen un eco de la retórica de línea dura de los albores de la Revolución Islámica.
Los gobiernos de Occidente parecen perturbados por lo que aparentan ser amenazas contra otro país.
Por su parte, a algunos de los países musulmanes que han estado avanzando de a poco hacia el establecimiento de lazos con Israel les podría preocupar la posibilidad de que quienes reconozcan al llamado "régimen sionista" tendrán que enfrentar la ira de la comunidad islámica.
El actual presidente de Irán, cuya formación es de línea dura, se ha mostrado intransigente respecto a una serie de asuntos relacionados con la política exterior desde que asumió el poder en junio.
En la Organización de las Naciones Unidas, su discurso fue desafiante cuando tocó el tema nuclear y se rehusó a retractar su decisión de reiniciar la conversión de uranio.
Las negociaciones con la Unión Europea para resolver el problema están estancadas.
Las relaciones con el Reino Unido también se han deteriorado pues Londres y Teherán se acusan mutuamente de interferir en detrimento del otro.
En casa
Dentro de su país, la acogida a las políticas de Ahmadinejad son mixtas.
Se cuestiona la relativa falta de experiencia de varios de sus ministros.
Los diarios de línea dura generalmente respaldan sus decisiones pero los periodistas que apoyan una reforma dudan que sea sabio continuar con el programa nuclear si ello pone a Irán en rumbo de colisión con el mundo.
Entre tanto, hay señales de que los principales seguidores de Ahmadinejad -los conservadores de bajos recursos- están empezando a preguntar cuándo va a empezar a cumplir con la promesa de mejorar las condiciones en las que viven.
argan oil from morocco
by
salvador rosillo
on Thu 27 Oct 2005 08:03 AM EDT
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ARGAN OIL from Morocco's Tree of Iron |
| Argan oil only has a short culinary history in this country, but it has a long, significant, and tasty lineage in its home country, Morocco. The argane tree, argania spinosa covers an area of 820,000 hectares in southwestern Morocco. Believed to be more than 80 million years old, the tree is valuable for its wood, leaves, and nuts. Its popular names include, " the tree of iron, " and " the olive tree of Morocco. " Today, the wood is preferred for construction, and the leaves serve as feed for goats and camels. The fruit of the argane tree is a berry formed by a fleshy outer coating and a hard core that contains the seeds/nuts resembling almonds. The exterior pulp that is removed in processing the seeds is given to animals as feed. The broken shell is also used as fuel. Most importantly, the seeds are pressed to produce an oil that has culinary, cosmetic and medicinal properties. (The cake that remains after pressing is also used as feed for animals.) The tree has been known for ages and used by man since the ancient Phoenicians used the oil they produced in their trading posts along the Atlantic coast. In 1219, Ibn Al Baythar, a well-known Egyptian doctor, described the tree and the process for extracting the oil in his Treatise of Simplicities (translated by Leclerc in 1877). " A tree of decent height, thorny, giving a fruit the size of an almond which contains a nut which one triturates and extracts oil which is used in food preparation "
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The trees have an amazing ability to adapt to the harsh climate of southwestern Morocco. When they start to feel the effects of a drought, they shed all their leaves and seem dead. When they feel moisture in the air, they start to bloom and leaves start to appear again. They can remain without leaves for several years. Their root system can search for water 30 meters below the earth's surface. Their leaves are adept at absorbing any available moisture present in the air. Argane trees act as an excellent barrier against the desert. Under and around the trees, flora and fauna thrive and in turn create an eco-diversity crucial to this region. Today, the Argan Region is around 820,000 hectares, or 70% of the wooded surface in southwestern Morocco. One hectare of argan trees can produce 800 kilos of ripe fruit, which will later yield 40 kilos of nuts. This 40 kilos of nuts produces 18 liters of argan oil. (This translates to just under 100 pounds of fruit needed to produce 1 liter of oil.) The seeds are usually joined and their number varies between one and three per berry. The tree bears fruit according to its age, the density of the tree population, the environment, and the amount of rainfall.
The ripe fruit is spread out to dry in the sun and then de-pulped manually. Then the core is broken with two stones in order to retrieve the seeds, which are then roasted and then ground. Water is added to the paste that is created from grinding the seeds, and the oil is then extracted by kneading this paste. It takes about 8 hours to produce one liter of argan oil by hand, and it is prepared in all the homes of this region, exclusively by women, as it has been for centuries. However, the tried and true methods are inefficient at best, and much of the oil and flavor is lost in the process. Several years ago, homegrown and foreign entrepreneurs began to develop new, more efficient processes. One of the pioneers in the production of Argan Oil, ABSIM Sarl was at the forefront of this development. Inspired by the traditional method of production, they designed and developed new equipment and adapted others to the specific needs of Argan oil. The result is a cold-pressed oil second to none in flavor and quality, enjoyed in the domestic market, and by discriminating palates all over the world. Argan Oil is a longtime favorite of Moroccans and will be loved by those who discover it, a miracle among organic products. Harvesting the nuts for our production enables 800 Berber families to enjoy a regular income. ABSIM Sarl is a founding member of " The Argane Foundation, " which has as its objectives the planting of argane trees (a tree that is disappearing at a rapid pace), the implementation of agro-forestry concepts for the benefit of local populations, creating an alternative to rural exodus, and combating desertification in the region where the argane tree grows.
Argan oil is rich in essential fatty acids such as oleic and linoleic acid. It contains close to 80% unsaturated fatty acids, which aid in digesting food. Argan oil is believed to have strong anti-oxidative properties, especially those that affect the skin. Argan oil is often used to combat the physiological aging and drying of skin; to neutralize free radicals and conjunctive tissue; to promote softer and stronger hair; and to strengthen breaking and unhealthy nails. ABSIM Sarl has teamed with Mustapha Haddouch - the founder of Mustapha's Fine Foods of Morocco - to bring this incomparable oil to the U.S.A.
Argan oil is a deep golden oil, often with a reddish tinge. It is lighter in weight than nut oils and olive oils, having a weight and body similar to seed oils like sesame or pumpkin. This however, is where the similarity ends. The aroma will jump out at you as soon as you open the bottle, and its flavor is as big and bold as the aroma. Some have compared it to a toasty nut oil, but here at ChefShop.com we think feel differently. It opens with a hint of nuttiness, and this aggressively expands to toastiness and spice - something akin to pumpkin seeds but more pungent. It provides an oh-so-light, buttery mouth feel, before moving on to the sharp finish. It is truly a memorable flavor. In Morocco it is used both as a cooking oil and as a flavoring/finishing ingredient. In salads it is most often combined with lemon juice, while for tagines (stews) and couscous it is a finishing drizzle. It is also combined with honey and yogurt and eaten for breakfast. However, in this day and age, local specialties as good as argan oil - a longtime Berber tradition – cannot be kept secret from the world's curious chefs. Today, it can be found on the menus of some of the best restaurants in the world, in France, in England, in the USA and elsewhere. Four Star chefs use it to finish soups, to create vinaigrettes for simple and composed salads, to flavor cooked grains and stews, and to finish grilled meats, fish, and vegetables. We suggest much of the same. For salads create vinaigrettes using lighter acids like lemon juice, verjus, champagne vinegar, cider vinegar, Banyuls vinegar or any combination of these. You can also blend the argan with grape seed oil or a light olive oil to create a softer flavor. An argan oil vinaigrette works well with salads composed of strongly flavored ingredients like blue or goat cheeses, grill meats and poultry, and even nuts and fruit like in Jean Galton's Chicken Salad with Almonds, Mango and Argan Oil. We also recommend it to finish bean and vegetable soups, such as a puréed white bean soup, squash soup or potato and leek soup. It goes especially well with the flavor of lentils as in the traditional Lentils with Tomato and Argan Oil. Don't forget to experiment with it on some grill halibut or sea bass. Or, why not just toast some almonds for a late night snack. |
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Hungry Goats Atop a Tree, Doing Their Bit for Gourmands
by
salvador rosillo
on Thu 27 Oct 2005 07:58 AM EDT
By CRAIG S. SMITH
Published: October 27, 2005 more »
Wednesday, October 26
A Rush to Commercial Property
by
salvador rosillo
on Wed 26 Oct 2005 09:00 PM EDT
By SANA SIWOLOP
Published: October 26, 2005 more »
The Exciting Adventures of Spider Man
by
salvador rosillo
on Wed 26 Oct 2005 08:55 PM EDT
By MOHI KUMAR
Published: October 25, 2005 more »
Rat on the Run Turns Out to Be a Marathon Swimmer
by
salvador rosillo
on Wed 26 Oct 2005 08:50 PM EDT
By JOHN SCHWARTZ
Published: October 25, 2005 more »
Scare Yourself Silly, but the Real Terrors Are at Your Feet
by
salvador rosillo
on Wed 26 Oct 2005 08:44 PM EDT
By ABIGAIL ZUGER, M.D.
Published: October 25, 2005 more »
Engineers Report Breakthrough in Laser Beam Technology
by
salvador rosillo
on Wed 26 Oct 2005 07:31 PM EDT
Published: October 26, 2005
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 26 - A team of Stanford electrical engineers has discovered how to modulate, or switch on and off, a beam of laser light up to a 100 billion times a second with materials that are widely used in the semiconductor industry.
The group used a standard chip-making process to design a key component of optical networking gear potentially more than 10 times faster than the highest-performance commercial products available today.
The team reported its discovery in the current issue of Nature, which was published on Wednesday. Such an advance could have broad applications both in accelerating the already declining cost of optical networking and in potentially transforming computers in the future by making it possible to interconnect computer chips at extremely high data rates.
Currently, the communications industry uses costly equipment to transmit data over optical fibers at up to 10 billion bits per second. However, researchers are already experimenting with optically linked computers in which components may be located on different sides of the globe. Cheap optical switches will also make it possible to create data superhighways inside computers, making it possible to reorganize them for better performance.
"The vision here is that, with the much stronger physics, we can imagine large numbers - hundreds or even thousands - of optical connections off of chips," said David A.B. Miller, director of the Solid State and Photonics Laboratory at Stanford University. "Those large numbers could get rid of the bottlenecks of wiring, bottlenecks that are quite evident today and are one of the reasons the clock speeds on your desktop computer have not really been going up much in recent years."
The modulator, or solid-state shutter, reported by the team, could also have a dramatic effect on the telecommunications industry, which is already being transformed by the falling cost of optical fiber networks.
The device, which is constructed from silicon and germanium, would alternately block and transmit light from a separate continuous wave laser beam, making it possible to split the beam into a stream of ones and zeros.
The effect, known as a Quantum-Confined Stark Effect, or QCSE, has been previously demonstrated, but was not expected in the germanium, a material that is compatible with the industry's silicon-based manufacturing technologies.
The Stark Effect allows materials to act as shutters for particular wavelengths of light as an electrical field is switched on and off. In the past, however, the effect has been achieved in optoelectronic applications by using exotic materials like gallium Aarsenide, which are not easily compatible with standard chip-making techniques.
"What we achieved is somewhat surprising," said James S. Harris, a Stanford University electrical engineering professor, who is a member of the research group. "No one thought it would work."
The research project was supported both by the Intel Corporation and by the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Intel has been intensely interested in the possibility of designing optical communications components with standard chip-making tools, both for networking and computer communications applications. Theodore I. Kamins, a quantum materials specialist at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, also contributed to the research effort.
"They've made a big leap," said Mario Paniccia, director of Intel's Photonics Technology Laboratory. That research group has made a number of announcements about progress in development of similar components that could lead to low-cost optical network systems in the future.
He acknowledged, however, that there is a significant gap between research results and commercial availability of devices based on scientific breakthroughs.
Other designers working in the field were also cautious about direct applications of the technology. Alex Dickenson, chief executive of Luxtera, a Carlsbad, Calif. start-up firm that announced a 10-billion bit per second optical modulator using a different silicon-based approach earlier this year, said that he believed there would significant hurdles to the commercialization of the Stanford discovery.
He cautioned that while the display was interesting from an academic perspective, the researchers had yet to prove that the effect works at the standard frequencies of light used by the telecommunications industry.
Several industry executives said the advance was significant because it meant that optical data networks were now on the same Moore's Law curve of increasing performance and falling cost that has driven the computer industry for the past four decades. In 1965, the Intel co-founder Gordon Moore noted that the number of transistors that could be placed on a silicon chip was doubling at regular intervals. The semiconductor industry has held to that rate of change since then, giving rise to the modern era of microelectronics that has transformed the global economy.
Now that rate of change could be directing the future of the telecommunications industry. Computer and communications industry executives believe that advancements in inexpensive optical networks will transform the computer industry and other major industries ranging from the financial marketplace to Hollywood.
Google Found to Be Testing Classified Ads
by
salvador rosillo
on Wed 26 Oct 2005 07:30 PM EDT
Published: October 26, 2005
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 25 - An online classified service being tested by Google set off intense speculation on Tuesday after a Web site for the service was accidentally made public and discovered by a computer programmer on Monday.
The service, which was named Google Base and was for a time accessible at base.google.com, described itself as "Google's database into which you can add all types of content."
"We'll host your content and make it searchable online for free."
The new service could automatically funnel listings on all kinds of subjects and display them as part of the company's sponsored ad links on the right side of pages displaying search results from Google queries.
Word of the new service, which would potentially compete with newspapers as well as with online classified services like those on eBay and Craigslist, drove eBay's stock down about 5 percent at points during the day.
The Google Base page was discovered on Monday by Tony Ruscoe, a British programmer, who said he had created an automatic program to search for subdomains accessible at the Google.com Web site. The company, based in Mountain View, Calif., took down the test site and replaced the page with a "403" forbidden-access response.
Google released a statement on Tuesday suggesting that the purpose of the test site was to make it simpler for Google customers to post content on Google.
"We are testing new ways for content owners to easily send their content to Google," the company said in a statement. "Like our Web crawl and the recently released Google Sitemaps program, we are working to provide content owners an easy way to give us access to their content. We're continually exploring new opportunities to expand our offerings, but we don't have anything to announce at this time."
Google executives, who are having a conference for partners and advertisers, called Google Zeitgeist, would not comment.
EBay, the online auction company, based in San Jose, Calif., is currently a major Google advertiser. The potential for direct competition between the Silicon Valley giants has been a subject of speculation for several years.
Sunday, October 23
The Catch
by
salvador rosillo
on Sun 23 Oct 2005 07:49 PM EDT
By PAUL GREENBERG
Published: October 23, 2005 more »
Osama bin Laden on European Security and the 'Liar in the White House'
by
salvador rosillo
on Sun 23 Oct 2005 06:49 PM EDT
Osama bin Laden on European Security and the 'Liar in the White House' more »
The Arts Administration
by
salvador rosillo
on Sun 23 Oct 2005 06:37 PM EDT
By JENNIFER STEINHAUER
Published: October 23, 2005 more »
Slippery Devil, That Real Estate 'Bubble'
by
salvador rosillo
on Sun 23 Oct 2005 12:17 PM EDT
By MOTOKO RICH and DAVID LEONHARDT
Published: October 23, 2005 more »
Saturday, October 22
What's He Really Worth?
by
salvador rosillo
on Sat 22 Oct 2005 08:00 PM EDT
By TIMOTHY L. O'BRIEN
Published: October 23, 2005 more »
Lawyer's Slaying Raises Questions on Hussein Trial
by
salvador rosillo
on Sat 22 Oct 2005 04:08 PM EDT
By JOHN F. BURNS
Published: October 22, 2005 more »
Parents Fret That Dialing Up Interferes With Growing Up
by
salvador rosillo
on Sat 22 Oct 2005 04:05 PM EDT
By MIREYA NAVARRO
Published: October 23, 2005 more »
Scientists Build Tiny Vehicles for Molecular Passengers
by
salvador rosillo
on Sat 22 Oct 2005 03:50 PM EDT
By BARNABY J. FEDER
Published: October 21, 2005 more »
Thursday, October 20
Taking a Cue From Ferrer, Mayor Issues Housing Plan
by
salvador rosillo
on Thu 20 Oct 2005 09:51 AM EDT
By THOMAS J. LUECK
Published: October 20, 2005 more »
Institute Once Led by Ferrer Forms Base of His Support
by
salvador rosillo
on Thu 20 Oct 2005 09:47 AM EDT
By MIKE McINTIRE
Published: October 20, 2005 more »
Israel Considers Banning Palestinians on West Bank's Main Roads
by
salvador rosillo
on Thu 20 Oct 2005 09:43 AM EDT
By GREG MYRE
Published: October 20, 2005 more »
this is Bull!
by
salvador rosillo
on Thu 20 Oct 2005 09:08 AM EDT
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MARCH 14, 2001
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Contact: Courtney Crouch
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HISPANIC POPULATION GROWTH SURPASSES ALL PROJECTIONS
Hispanic population rises 344 percent in Arkansas since 1990 |
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| (Washington, D.C.) This week, the Census Bureau released figures showing that Hispanics in the United States are on the brink of becoming the nation’s largest minority, which was previously projected for 2005. The surprise rate of growth is due largely to an increase in immigration and a significant undercount in the 1990 Census. For years, many have argued that Hispanics already are the largest minority population because official figures did not include the over 3.8 million citizens on the island of Puerto Rico.
The population shift in America is already creating massive political, economic, and social shifts in this country. Hispanics are now 7% of the electorate, up from less than 4% just eight years ago. The Hispanic buying power in the United States is over $400 billion and is expected to top $1 trillion in ten years. Hispanic food, music, and entertainment have become part of American culture.
“For many years, the Hispanic community has played an increasingly important role in America,” U.S. Representative Mike Ross (AR-4) said. “These new census numbers show that the face of Arkansas and our country is changing. As we begin this new century, we must be able to accept and draw strength from our increased diversity.”
· Population: In 2000, there were 35.3 million Hispanics in the United States, representing approximately 12.5% of the nation's population, a nearly 60% increase from 1990. The Hispanic population continues to be concentrated in the Southwest and Northeast. However, between 1990 and 2000, there was significant Hispanic population growth in states not traditionally associated with Hispanic communities, such as Arkansas, Iowa, and Mississippi. For the fifteen states with 2000 Census population data released as of Tuesday evening, Hispanic population growth rates are as follows:
Arkansas – 344% Louisiana - 19% Oklahoma – 114% Vermont – 43%
Indiana - 125% Mississippi - 168% Pennsylvania - 79% Virginia - 112%
Iowa - 169% Nevada – 225% South Dakota - 101% Wisconsin - 120%
Kansas – 108% New Jersey - 55% Texas – 55%
Furthermore, 2000 Census data released to date show the Hispanic population growing rapidly in all areas, including suburbs, which have not traditionally been high-growth Hispanic areas.
· Education: Hispanics are less likely than non-Hispanic whites to have a bachelor’s degree, 10.6% and 28.1% respectively. In addition, only 57% of Hispanics over the age of 25 have a high school diploma, compared to 88% for non-Hispanic whites. It is, therefore, imperative that we make needed investments in education to reduce class size and increase the quality and relevance of our educational system for all students.
· Economics: Hispanics are more likely than non-Hispanic whites to be employed in low-wage jobs that are less likely to offer health insurance and other benefits. For example, 22% of Hispanics are operators and laborers and another 19.4% are employed in the service industry, but only 14% of Hispanics are employed in professional and managerial positions. Because more Hispanics work in low-wage jobs, they are also nearly three times as likely as non-Hispanic whites to live below the poverty threshold, 22.8% and 7.7% respectively. All of our nation's workers deserve a decent wage and access to health insurance.
Combined, Hispanics and African-Americans make up nearly one quarter, or 70 million, of our nation’s population. Our leaders at the local, state, and national level must not overlook these numbers; and America must be prepared to invest in education, healthcare, and housing, so that all Americans have equal access to services on a level playing field. |
Wednesday, October 19
Executive Summary:A Population Perspective of the United States
by
salvador rosillo
on Wed 19 Oct 2005 11:26 AM EDT
Executive Summary:
A Population Perspective of the United States
World population has grown by one billion in the past 12 years, exceeding six billion in 1999. Nearly half of this population is under the age of 25 and over 90 percent of the growth is taking place in the developing world, in sharp contrast to Europe, North America and Japan, where population growth has slowed dramatically or even stopped. The United States is the only industrialized country in the world where large population increases are projected, due mainly to immigration.
The population of the United States in 1999 is estimated at 272.5 million, making it the world's third most populous nation after China and India.
The U.S. population increases by 0.6 percent annually as a consequence of more births than deaths. Legal immigration contributes another 0.3 percent to growth, or approximately 800,000 people per year.
By 2050, U.S. population is projected to grow to over 403 million people; ethnic and racial minorities will comprise more than 90 percent of those 130 million additional Americans.
Population Distribution
Over the last century, Americans have been moving to metropolitan areas with high economic activity, resulting in a population decline in the non-metropolitan U.S. Currently over 75 percent of the country lives in metropolitan areas of the country.
In 1950, more than half of all Americans (55 percent) lived in the Northeast and Midwest. Today that number has declined to 42 percent as the population has shifted to the South and West. California is the greatest gaining state in the United States.
Racial Composition and Immigration
Projections indicate that minorities will make up one-third of the U.S. population by 2015 and nearly half of the population by 2050. The current U.S. population is 72 percent non-Hispanic white; 12 percent African-American; 11 percent Hispanic; and five percent Asian and other.
The minority share of the U.S. population has more than doubled since 1950. By 2050, whites – who were an 87 percent majority in 1950 – will comprise only 53 percent of the U.S. population.
Asians (including Pacific Islanders) are the fastest-growing minority group, having increased by 179 percent since 1980. By 2050, Asians will comprise nearly ten percent of the U.S. population.
Since 1980, the number of Hispanics in the U.S. has grown five times faster than the rest of the population, making the United States the third largest Spanish-speaking country in the world.
At 33.1 million in 1999, African-Americans remained the largest single minority group nationally, yet between 2005 and 2015, Hispanics are expected to pass African-Americans as the country’s largest minority group.
More legal immigrants (7.6 million) came to the U.S. from 1991 to 1999 than in any other decade except 1901 to 1910. Approximately 42 percent of these immigrants came from Spanish-speaking countries; 33 percent from Asia; 17 percent from Europe; and five percent from Africa. The government estimated in 1996 that an additional five million immigrants were in the U.S. illegally.
Family Structure
The household size of the average American family has declined from 3.1 to 2.6 persons during the last 30 years. Reasons for this include the decline in fertility, changes in the living patterns of youth and fewer overall marriages, a higher median age for marriage, and increases in the divorce rate.
According to the National Center for Health Statistics, the U.S. lifetime divorce probability stands at 48.8 percent, a figure that has more than tripled since 1970 when it was 15 percent.
While the U.S. fertility rate has declined from 2.5 to 2.0 since 1970, out-of-wedlock births as a percentage of all births has more than tripled to 36 percent and two-parent families have declined from 87 to 70 percent of all families in 1999. Among non-Hispanic whites, the proportion of single-parent families has doubled to 21 percent, and among African-Americans this number has increased from 36 to 60 percent. Most single-parent families are headed by women.
Higher fertility has been a major source of population growth among minority groups. Hispanics have the highest fertility rate of any U.S. minority, with the average Hispanic woman giving birth to three children in her lifetime. The African-American fertility rate is 2.2 lifetime births per woman. Non-Hispanic whites have the lowest fertility rate of 1.8, about 14 percent below the "replacement rate" of 2.1.
When only considering fecund, sexually active women who do not want to become pregnant (39 million), approximately 8 in 10 U.S. women are using contraception.
The U.S. Census Bureau reports that the teenage birth rate dropped two percent in 1998, continuing a seven-year decline in these numbers. Although teen birth rates remain disproportionately high for Hispanics and African-Americans, these numbers dropped from 1991 to 1997 by three and 23 percent, respectively.
Aging
The country grew rapidly from 132 million in 1940 to its present size due to the post-World War II baby boom, increasing immigration, and increasing life expectancy. The baby boom, 75 million Americans born between 1946 and 1964, currently represents 30 percent of the U.S. population, and at the height of this boom in 1957, 4.3 million children were born. This number dropped to 3.1 million in 1973 and began to rise again in the late 1970s as baby boomers began having children, peaking at 4.1 in 1991.
As a result of aging baby boomers, the U.S. population ages 65 and older will grow from 13 percent today to 18 percent by2025, and the median age of the country will increase from 35.5 to 39 years of age. By 2050, more than one-fifth of all Americans are expected to be over the age of 65.
Chiefly because of higher fertility rates, minorities represent a larger share of U.S. youth, while non-Hispanic whites constitute the bulk of the nation’s elderly. About 35 percent of U.S. children under the age of 18 are minorities, while 84 percent of those over 65 are non-Hispanic whites. By 2025, nearly 47 percent of American children will be African-American, Hispanic or Asian.
Health and Mortality
Life expectancy at birth in the U.S. has increased from 71 to 77 years since 1970. While African-Americans and men experienced the largest gains in life expectancy during the last 25 years, whites and women can still expect to live five years longer than both groups. The leading cause of death for all Americans is major cardiovascular-related disease, and the second cause of death is cancer.
An estimated 44.3 million people in the United States, or 16.3 percent of the population, had no health insurance in 1998, an increase of approximately one million people since 1997. Those more likely to lack health insurance continue to include young adults in the 18- to 24-year-old age group, people with lower levels of education, Hispanics, those who work part-time, and foreign-born Americans.
AIDS-related death rates in the U.S. dropped 21 percent in 1998 to 4.6 deaths per 100,000, and for the first time since 1987, AIDS has fallen out of the nation’s top 15 causes of death. Still, AIDS remains the leading cause of death for African-American men ages 25 to 44 and the third leading cause of death for African-American women of the same age. For the population as a whole, AIDS ranks as the fifth cause of death for the same age group. Since 1995, overall AIDS mortality has declined more than 70 percent.
Education
In 1997, approximately 82 percent of Americans ages 25 and older had obtained at least a high school diploma; 48 percent had continued their education beyond high school; and 24 percent had earned at least a bachelor’s degree. From 1970 to 1999, college completion rates for the U.S. population ages 25 and older has doubled for non-Hispanic whites and Hispanics and more than tripled for African-Americans.
Labor Force
In 1999, the U.S. labor force consisted of 137.7 million people, including the unemployed. The unemployment rate stands at 3.9 percent, the lowest it has been in over 30 years.
By occupation, 29.6 percent of the labor force is managerial and professional; 29.3 percent technical, sales and administrative support; 13.6 percent services; 24.8 percent manufacturing, mining, transportation and crafts; and 2.7 percent farming, forestry and fishing.
In 1900, just 19 percent of women were paid for their work. Today, nearly 60 percent of U.S. women participate in the cash economy.
Socioeconomic Factors
Growth in real median household income made 1998 the year with the highest income levels ever recorded in the U.S. The real median earnings of full time, year-round workers increased between 1994 and 1998 by 4.4 percent for men and 2.0 percent for women.
As U.S. incomes rose, the proportion of the population living below the poverty level dropped to 12.7 percent (34.5 million) in 1998, down from 15 percent in 1990. The average poverty threshold for a family of four in 1998 was $16, 600 in annual income and $13,003 for a family of three. Currently, 8.2 percent of non-Hispanic whites, 26.1 percent of African-Americans, and 25.6 percent of Hispanics are below the poverty level.
Since the 1970s, income inequality has been widening in the U.S. The income share going to the wealthiest five percent of families rose from 15.6 percent in 1970 to 20.3 percent in 1998, and the wealthiest one-half of one percent of American taxpayers now account for more than 11 percent of aggregate income. In recent years, only college graduates have seen a significant increase in wage gains. In 1980, the median male college graduate earned about a third more than the median high school graduate; by 1998, the gap had widened to over 75 percent.
Conclusions
The aging of the U.S. baby boom population from young adulthood to middle-age has brought shifts in both the age structure and the labor force, affecting healthcare, social security and pension stability. And high levels of immigration during the 1980s and 1990s have contributed to significant population growth and made the country more racially and ethnically diverse, creating implications for the social integration of the United States. The future size, structure and diversity of this nation are already taking shape. Aging baby-boomers and new immigrants will create germinal segments of the population that will be distributed differently across the nation. The impacts of this growing diversity will vary by region, across states, and within states, creating major policy challenges for the United States in the decades ahead.
As this nation moves into the 21st century, demographic circumstances around the world will increase the importance of global matters such as the environment, immigration and overall quality of life. Many challenges lie ahead for our world at six billion. One billion people aged 15 to 24 will reach the height of their reproductive years, and the fertility outcomes of these generations will impact the world and affect the U.S. for generations to come.
Hispanic-Owned Businesses: Growth Projections, 2004-2010
by
salvador rosillo
on Wed 19 Oct 2005 08:12 AM EDT
Hispanic-Owned Businesses: Growth Projections, 2004-2010
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Hispanic-Owned Businesses: Growth Projections, 2004-2010
This data rich report details:
- Revenue and industry-sector trend analysis for the period 1982-2010
- The Top 20 states for Hispanic-owned firms
- Data appendix providing estimates for sales and number of firm by year and industry-sector
Several of the key insights in the data-rich report follow:
- Hispanic-owned firms in the United States expected to grow 55 percent to 3.2 million
- Total revenues of Hispanic-owned firms will increase by 70 percent
- The service and financial sectors show the largest growth
- More than 90 percent of all Hispanic-owned firms, and their sales volume, are concentrated in 20 states
- Together, California and Florida are home to 52 percent of all Hispanic-owned firms
Hispanic-Owned Businesses
Spurred by growing entrepreneurial trends and affluence among the nation’s largest minority population, the increase is expected to come at a robust rate of 7.6 percent annually through at least 2010. The number of Hispanic-owned businesses in the United States is expected to grow 55 percent in the next six years to 3.2 million, with total revenues surging 70 percent to more than $465 billion, according to new estimates by HispanTelligence.
US HISPANIC POPULATION projections to 2025
by
salvador rosillo
on Wed 19 Oct 2005 08:10 AM EDT
These numbers are 15 years off!!!!
| State |
July, 1995 |
July, 2000 |
July, 2005 |
July, 2015 |
July, 2025 |
| California |
9,206,000 |
10,647,000 |
12,268,000 |
16,411,000 |
21,232,000 |
| Texas |
5,173,000 |
5,875,000 |
6,624,000 |
8,294,000 |
10,230,000 |
| New York |
2,541,000 |
2,805,000 |
3,071,000 |
3,664,000 |
4,309,000 |
| Florida |
1,955,000 |
2,390,000 |
2,845,000 |
3,828,000 |
4,944,000 |
| Illinois |
1,090,000 |
1,267,000 |
1,450,000 |
1,840,000 |
2,275,000 |
| New Jersey |
896,000 |
1,044,000 |
1,196,000 |
1,513,000 |
1,861,000 |
| Arizona |
868,000 |
1,071,000 |
1,269,000 |
1,641,000 |
2,065,000 |
| New Mexico |
657,000 |
736,000 |
821,000 |
1,011,000 |
1,241,000 |
| Colorado |
507,000 |
594,000 |
682,000 |
859,000 |
1,067,000 |
| Massachusetts |
355,000 |
437,000 |
524,000 |
719,000 |
934,000 |
| Washington |
284,000 |
360,000 |
437,000 |
605,000 |
797,000 |
| Pennsylvania |
279,000 |
334,000 |
391,000 |
507,000 |
639,000 |
| Connecticut |
248,000 |
288,000 |
332,000 |
447,000 |
574,000 |
| Michigan |
233,000 |
261,000 |
289,000 |
355,000 |
431,000 |
| Virginia |
209,000 |
269,000 |
322,000 |
429,000 |
538,000 |
| Nevada |
192,000 |
277,000 |
350,000 |
460,000 |
583,000 |
| Maryland |
172,000 |
214,000 |
258,000 |
345,000 |
438,000 |
| Ohio |
162,000 |
183,000 |
206,000 |
257,000 |
319,000 |
| Georgia |
150,000 |
189,000 |
226,000 |
279,000 |
349,000 |
| Oregon |
150,000 |
195,000 |
237,000 |
323,000 |
429,000 |
| Indiana |
119,000 |
140,000 |
162,000 |
199,000 |
243,000 |
| Wisconsin |
114,000 |
136,000 |
156,000 |
192,000 |
236,000 |
| Kansas |
114,000 |
138,000 |
166,000 |
220,000 |
281,000 |
| Utah |
110,000 |
138,000 |
164,000 |
210,000 |
265,000 |
| Louisiana |
105,000 |
119,000 |
138,000 |
179,000 |
227,000 |
| Oklahoma |
104,000 |
124,000 |
143,000 |
193,000 |
245,000 |
| Hawaii |
100,000 |
107,000 |
119,000 |
149,000 |
186,000 |
| North Carolina |
100,000 |
121,000 |
139,000 |
169,000 |
210,000 |
| Missouri |
74,000 |
90,000 |
105,000 |
137,000 |
172,000 |
| Minnesota |
73,000 |
95,000 |
114,000 |
150,000 |
193,000 |
| Idaho |
72,000 |
96,000 |
121,000 |
160,000 |
205,000 |
| Rhode Island |
60,000 |
76,000 |
92,000 |
133,000 |
176,000 |
| Nebraska |
50,000 |
61,000 |
72,000 |
89,000 |
111,000 |
| Iowa |
46,000 |
54,000 |
61,000 |
78,000 |
96,000 |
| Tennessee |
45,000 |
57,000 |
67,000 |
82,000 |
104,000 |
| District of Colombia |
37,000 |
40,000 |
46,000 |
62,000 |
80,000 |
| South Carolina |
36,000 |
42,000 |
50,000 |
65,000 |
81,000 |
| Alabama |
32,000 |
37,000 |
42,000 |
51,000 |
63,000 |
| Kentucky |
27,000 |
32,000 |
38,000 |
47,000 |
55,000 |
| Arkansas |
27,000 |
33,000 |
40,000 |
54,000 |
67,000 |
| Wyoming |
27,000 |
35,000 |
42,000 |
57,000 |
74,000 |
| Alaska |
25,000 |
31,000 |
37,000 |
47,000 |
59,000 |
| Mississippi |
19,000 |
21,000 |
24,000 |
30,000 |
39,000 |
| Delaware |
19,000 |
25,000 |
29,000 |
38,000 |
48,000 |
| Montana |
16,000 |
20,000 |
26,000 |
30,000 |
39,000 |
| New Hampshire |
13,000 |
17,000 |
20,000 |
28,000 |
34,000 |
| West Virginia |
9,000 |
11,000 |
15,000 |
19,000 |
24,000 |
| South Dakota |
7,000 |
8,000 |
9,000 |
12,000 |
14,000 |
| Maine |
6,000 |
8,000 |
10,000 |
16,000 |
20,000 |
| Vermont |
4,000 |
6,000 |
6,000 |
10,000 |
12,000 |
| North Dakota |
4,000 |
6,000 |
8,000 |
11,000 |
14,000 |
| TOTAL |
26,921,000 |
31,360,000 |
36,059,000 |
46,704,000 |
58,925,000 |
*Based on US Census Bureau Projections. Numbers rounded to the nearest thousand.
*These numbers do not include undocummented immigrants.
Cuba hails condemnation by summit of `blockade'
by
salvador rosillo
on Wed 19 Oct 2005 08:05 AM EDT
BY FRANCES ROBLES
frobles@herald.com more »
The People Speak (Shout, Actually) on Brooklyn Arena Project
by
salvador rosillo
on Wed 19 Oct 2005 07:59 AM EDT
By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE
Published: October 19, 2005 more »
An Elevated Plaza Finally Worth Going Up to See
by
salvador rosillo
on Wed 19 Oct 2005 07:55 AM EDT
By DAVID W. DUNLAP
Published: October 19, 2005 more »
Scientists Bridle at Lecture Plan for Dalai Lama
by
salvador rosillo
on Wed 19 Oct 2005 07:37 AM EDT
By BENEDICT CAREY
Published: October 19, 2005 more »
Tuesday, October 18
Sin dejar huella
by
salvador rosillo
on Tue 18 Oct 2005 09:14 AM EDT
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Los trabajos manuales pueden desgastar las huellas y alterar resultados. |
La gente que trabaja con las manos podría ser erróneamente identificada por escáneres de alta tecnología, debido al desgaste de sus huellas digitales.
El trabajo manual nunca ha sido bueno para las manos, pero ahora, las personas que trabajan con ellas, podrían encarar problemas con las autoridades.
Los albañiles y labriegos podrían ver que sus huellas digitales no son reconocidas por los equipos que entusiasman tanto a algunos gobiernos desde que se lanzó la llamada "guerra contra el terrorismo".
Y esta limitación tecnológica también afecta a los mecanógrafos, pianistas, violinistas y guitarristas, quienes probablemente estarían sujetos a lecturas imprecisas.
El problema radica en que las huellas digitales pueden desgastarse severamente, particularmente las de aquellas personas que están en contacto con materiales abrasivos.
Secretos de las huellas
El experto en dactiloscopia Raymond Broadstock explica que las la huellas dactilares son como campos arados.
"Los trabajos de construcción o mecanográficos gastan las crestas y la lisura de la piel se afecta, en consecuencia, la lectura de la huellas se dificulta", señala.
El daño en la piel no es permanente ya que la dermis se rejuvenece en cuestión de días. Sin embargo, para aquellos que trabajan en esas profesiones es muy difícil hallar el tiempo suficiente para que las manos descansen y las crestas se reconstruyan.
Al parecer, recientes pruebas llevadas a cabo por el gobierno británico -que planea lanzar tarjetas de identidad para sus ciudadanos, con la más alta tecnología- arrojaron resultados preocupantes: una de cada mil personas fue mal identificada, por falta de huellas digitales o problemas con su cara o iris.
"Se sabe que los prisioneros se raspan las manos en las paredes de las celdas con la intención de desgastar sus huellas, entonces se los ubica en celdas con paredes lisas hasta que las huellas se rejuvenecen", señaló Broadstock.
¿Cómo contrarrestar entonces las limitaciones de la tecnología?.
Según Raymond Broadstock, una posibilidad sería desarrollar un programa que lea la palma de la mano ya que también tienen crestas únicas.
"Un criminal en Estados Unidos se borró las huellas dactilares tomando piel de otras partes de su cuerpo e injertándosela en la punta de los dedos. Le funcionó, pero en todo caso lo atraparon pues se olvidó de las palmas de sus manos... ¡quedó sorprendido, por decir poco!" |
Untitled
by
salvador rosillo
on Tue 18 Oct 2005 09:02 AM EDT
By JIM ROBBINS
Published: October 18, 2005 more »
http://www.moleremedy.com/Mole_Removal.html
by
salvador rosillo
on Tue 18 Oct 2005 08:52 AM EDT
http://www.moleremedy.com/Mole_Removal.html more »
skin cancer facts
by
salvador rosillo
on Tue 18 Oct 2005 08:49 AM EDT
Skin Cancer Facts
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Skin Cancer effects more than a million people each year in America. Experts say more than one in 5 Americans will get skin cancer in the course of a lifetime. It is estimated that number will increase over the next five years; by 2010, "Melanoma" is projected to rise to one in 50 Americans. The incidence of melanoma, which is the deadliest form of skin cancer, is rising faster than that of any other cancer. One person dies every hour from skin cancer, primarily melanoma. Nationally, there are more new cases of skin cancer each year than the combined incidence of cancers of the prostate, breast, lung, and colon. The good news is; most of the things that pop up on our bodies as we age; moles, and skin tags are nothing to worry about, and they can be removed with natural mole removers or laser surgery.
Reno Nevada News reports that "more than 90 percent of all skin cancers are caused by sun exposure, yet most people use no form of sun protection; less than 33 percent of adults, adolescents, and children routinely use sun protection." The majority of people diagnosed with the melanoma form of skin cancer are "White Men over age 50." Skin cancer is the #1 cancer that hits men over age 50, way ahead of prostate, lung and colon cancer. Middle-aged and older men have the poorest track record for performing monthly skin self exams or regularly visiting a dermatologist. They are also the least likely individual to detect a melanoma in its early stages. While this type of skin cancer is uncommon in African-Americans, Asians, and Latinos, it is most deadly for these populations.
Melanoma also kills more young women under the age of 40 than any other cancer. In the past thirty years, skin cancer has tripled in women in America. The incidence of melanoma is increasing so rapidly in women that it is now the most common cancer in young women aged 25-29, and second only to breast cancer in women aged 30-34.
New research out on skin cancer and its causes revealed that one type of ray - the "UVA" causes more genetic damage than the other"UVB" rays. These UVB rays harm skin cells where most skin cancers arise – the keratinocytes in the basal layer of the epidermis. The UVB rays tend to cause damage in more superficial epidermal layers.
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salvador rosillo
on Tue 18 Oct 2005 08:47 AM EDT
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