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Maradona wants to coach del Potro

Content by T Team on Feb 22, 2013

Former soccer star Diego Maradona, who is an ambassador for Dubai Sports Council and has been attending WTA matches in Dubai this week, jokes that he will take charge of a fellow Argentine next week, when the ATP begins its tournament there.

?Next week I?ll be the one training [Juan Martin] del Potro myself,? he told Gulf News. ?I will ask Franco Davin to step aside and Diego will train del Potro.?

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

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Clive Davis reveals in memoir that he's bisexual

This Feb. 18, 2013 photo shows Sony Music Entertainment's Chief Creative Officer of and famous hitmaker Clive Davis posing for a portrait in New York. Davis' releases his memoir "The Soundtrack of My Life," on Tuesday. (Photo by Dan Hallman/Invision/AP)

This book cover image released by Simon & Schuster shows "The Soundtrack of My Life," a memoir by Clive Davis with Anthony DeCurtis. (AP Photo/Simon & Schuster)

NEW YORK (AP) ? Record executive Clive Davis says he's bisexual.

In his new memoir, out Tuesday, the twice-divorced 80-year-old reveals that he had sex with a man in the 1970s. Davis writes in "The Soundtrack of My Life" that he hadn't been repressed or confused during his marriages and that sex with a man "provided welcome relief."

He also writes that he started dating a man from 1990 to 2004, which he says was a "tough adjustment" for his son Mitchell. He says after "one trying year," he and his son worked things out. Davis is the father of three children.

Davis is the chief creative officer of Sony Music Entertainment. He writes that he's been in a "strong monogamous relationship" with a man for the last seven years.

Associated Press

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Scientist at Work Blog: Swift Diving in Bali

C. Drew Harvell is associate director for environment at the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future at Cornell University. She is studying the health of coral reefs and marine ecosystems in Indonesia, and is helping to plan a new project, Capturing Coral Reef Ecosystem Services. This is her final post.

Wed., Jan. 23

Our last stop is Bali. Once we were free from the crush of oppressive traffic and overt tourism in Denpasar, I did get lost in the rapture of my surroundings ? it seems like everything the Balinese touch turns beautiful. From the seductive Hindu temples of Uluwatu and roadside architecture, to the small inviting byways and richly turned fabrics, the back roads of Bali are enticing. But we were still on duty as scientists, with tasks to accomplish.

This beautiful culture is also over-loved in terms of tourism and development. My final dives were to some islands close to Denpasar with well-developed hotel-based tourism.

The dives on the reefs, in super-high currents, were on the list for our last trip a year ago, but one of the scientists on our team developed typhoid, and instead we spent the time watching over her in one of Denpasar?s excellent small clinics.

Many locations in Southeast Asia have a high incidence of typhoid. One of my areas of specialization is as a disease ecologist of marine organisms. It is a little different from being a doctor for people. However, it does mean that I am fascinated by the same viruses, bacteria and fungi that medical doctors deal with to help their human patients.

I am interested in the transmission routes these germs take in nature and the aspects of their biology that allow them to cross from one host to another. Examples of what we call zoonoses include the now-famous Kendra virus, transmitted from horse to human, or rabies, from dogs to humans. Then there are the bugs that are passed from humans to coral, in reverse zoonosis. My students and I are on the hunt for their reservoirs or hiding places in natural ecosystems, and want to know how environmental changes can affect disease risk for both humans and wildlife.

That brings me back to typhoid. It is caused by a bacterium, salmonella typhi. It is prevalent in places that do not have good septic treatment because its route of transmission is what we call fecal-oral, and I think that is all I have to say.

I am not a human doctor, so I do not have the best data on levels of typhoid transmission, but Craig Altier, a salmonella expert from the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine, tells me that places in Indonesia have some of the highest levels of typhoid in the world. And it made my friend very sick, very quickly, with what looked like a bad stomach flu, but included blood and heart complications.

Treatment involves large doses of antibiotics and is usually successful as long as you don?t happen to tangle with an antibiotic-resistant strain. Thankfully that didn?t happen in my colleague?s case, but there was another nasty complication. The typhoid was accompanied by another bug, called entamoeba histolytica ? also known as amoebic dysentery ? which also follows the same transmission routes. The typhoid and amoebic dysentery presented a double whammy, and without the extremely good health care she received, could easily have been fatal.

And here is why many of us are interested in a concept called ?one health?: There is excellent evidence linking human health and environmental health. One goal in our work in Indonesia is to see if we can link high levels of human infections with adverse health in the ocean environment.

I work on the infectious diseases of corals, which live in near-shore coastal locations. Coral health is a good sentinel for the well being of reefs. When conditions in the water get bad, corals get sick. And since corals can?t move and wear their entire being on their surface, they get sick in very obvious, place-based ways.

For example, the black band disease I talked about in my first post reliably increases when temperatures increase, and it also increases when there is an overabundance of nutrients.

Another well-known example is a coral disease called white pox from the Florida Keys. White pox looks like coral measles ? its symptoms include ulcerative white spots all over the coral?s surface. The white spots eventually coalesce, causing lesions that eat all the living tissue away and kill the coral.

Some cases of white pox are caused by a fecal coliform bacterium, serratia marcescens. Katie Sutherland, a scientist in Florida, was able to link the disease-causing bacterium to fecal coliform strains cultured from human sewage treatment plants.

Earlier during our trip, in Sulawesi, I showed pictures of us collecting samples to test for the presence of a group of fecal coliforms, called enterococci. They are the same ones the Environmental Protection Agency in the United States uses as an indicator for the safety of our waters.

In the United States, the notifiable limit set by the E.P.A. is 35 counts per unit (C.P.U. means the number of bacteria cultured from a standard water sample of 100 milliliters). Our preliminary samples from some coral reef locations near heavily populated islands ranged from 3 to more than 200 C.P.U. That is not a healthy condition for people swimming in the water or eating fish from that water. We also found corals in this area with higher than background levels of disease.

Human pollution is hardly the only threat to our marine life. My lab, and a group of scientists linked through a research network I run, financed by the National Science Foundation Biological Oceanography, work on how climate change is making both animals and plants sicker in the world?s oceans.

Our work has shown that several diseases of corals increase during extreme warming, which we can anticipate in the coming decades.

So how does this relate to the spectacular and somewhat dangerous dive I am about to take? Climate-driven warming alone will likely cause many opportunistic infections in corals in the coming decades. As good stewards of this most precious of marine resources, we need to do the science that shows us how to make these reefs more resilient, so that they get through this rather tight bottleneck humans are imposing.

And so on to the dive: I am now in a spectacular location in Bali, notorious for extremely strong currents (think fast-flowing rivers), some of which have the dangerous property of sweeping downward, sort of like an undersea water-fall. The same colleague who became sick with typhoid cautioned me, ?Be very careful diving there, Drew, several people have died from being swept down too deep by those strong currents during the past year.? Great.

I made sure to pick a highly reputable and competent dive company. And I asked them to not only take me to their most beautiful sites with high coral cover, but also ones that are potentially affected by poor tourism practices, like discharging untreated sewage.

I am advising an international team of coral health biologists, including Indonesian scientists, to develop comprehensive identification of the predominant coral disease syndromes throughout Indonesia. Happily, in most locations of Indonesia, we are so far finding some of the lowest levels of coral disease in the world.

In most of our sites ? for example, Wakatobi National Park or Biak, Papua ? less than 1 percent of every coral colony is sick. This can be compared to some sites in the Caribbean, like Puerto Rico or the Mexican Yucatan, where we have found over 30 percent of the remaining corals to be sick. We are very interested to find out why the levels of coral disease are so low on the species-rich reefs of Indonesia, and what kinds of ecosystem services make these corals more resilient to disease.

Still, the area is not problem-free. We have seen locally high levels like those next to the tourist operations here, where sewage is released directly onto the reef.

How do I know they are discharging sewage? As we started our drift dive near a tourist pontoon, the relatively murky water and toilet paper floating by were good indicators.

And the ulcerative white spot diseases of this area?s corals are a good indicator that all is not well.

I saw these sick corals at the beginning of this dive and hadn?t seen them at other locations. And I saw a lot of reef on this dive, since it was a heck of a fast dive in very high currents, covering well over a kilometer.

It was, as I was warned, tricky; every time I grabbed hold to snap a picture, my dive buddy would be swept out of sight with the current. I didn?t run into any down currents, but we did hit a fast up current along one wall, like an elevator, that made it hard to keep at depth.

Happily we were quickly washed from the tainted reefs to a bright, clear, lovely rich reef filled with cool stuff like big sea snakes, tiny bright blue moray eels, a high diversity of corals, a high diversity of fish and of course, clown fish.

Locations like this depict the value of our plan to team with the Nature Conservancy to develop a Pacific-wide coral health survey ? to use coral health as a sentinel for reef-wide sustainability and a fast-changing indicator of declining environmental conditions.

The good news is that local environmental stressors like sewage discharge are relatively easy to fix, compared with the larger global issue of climate change.

All in all, this was a productive trip, where I was able to juggle work on two coral reef sustainability projects. We were able to advance the Capturing Coral Reef Ecosystems Services Project, by finding sites where the value of ecosystem services of marine protected areas, coral reefs and mangroves can be advanced, and we were able to identify firsthand some key issues in supporting new eco-businesses in the coral triangle.

I was also able to move forward our work with the National Science Foundation-supported One Health project, by developing with colleagues at Hasanuddin University in Sulawesi new assays for bacteria in the water and new sites for surveying coral health.

The rich and unique center of coral biodiversity that thrives in Indonesia provides an unusual opportunity as a study system for those lucky to be welcomed as partners. At the same time, it is a global commons that is in need of help through new partnerships that the Indonesians can use to steward their resources.

Financing for this expedition was provided by N.S.F. Biological Oceanography, International Programs and USAID PEER.

Source: http://scientistatwork.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/19/swift-diving-in-bali/?partner=rss&emc=rss

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Thursday, February 14, 2013

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Naperville, IL -- (SBWIRE) -- 02/13/2013 -- Analysts forecast the Fixed VoIP Services market in the US to grow at a CAGR of 10.15 percent over the period 2012-2016. One of the key factors contributing to this market growth is the availability of next-generation telecom infrastructure. The Fixed VoIP Services market in the US has also been witnessing subscribers switching from fixed telephones to fixed VoIP services. However, the security concerns could pose a challenge to the growth of this market.

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Asteroid 2012 DA14's Friday Flyby: A Stargazer's Guide

Scientists and amateur observers alike are eagerly awaiting Friday's historic flyby of asteroid 2012 DA14, which will zoom inside Earth's ring of geosynchronous satellites.

At its nearest approach Friday (Feb. 15), the 150-foot-wide (45 meters) asteroid 2012 DA14 will be just 17,200 miles (27,000 kilometers) from Earth ? the closest encounter with such a large space rock that researchers have ever known about in advance.?

Astronomers will take full advantage of the flyby, tracking the?near-Earth asteroid?with a variety of instruments to learn more about it and space rocks in general. And some well-placed skywatchers may be able to follow 2012 DA12 's path across the heavens Friday as well, weather permitting.

Will you be able to see it?

As in real estate, the key to viewing the flyby is location, location, location.?

At the time of its closest approach on Friday ? 2:24 p.m. EST (1924 GMT) ? 2012 DA14 will be passing directly above the eastern Indian Ocean off the Indonesian island of Sumatra. That?s bad news if you live in the Western Hemisphere, Hawaii or New Zealand, where it will be daytime with no chance of seeing the asteroid. (But everyone can watch the flyby at SPACE.com, which will air footage from several telescopes around the world.) [Asteroid 2012 DA14;s Close Shave Explained (Infographic)]?

But 2012 DA14 will be visible from parts of Europe, Africa, Asia and most of Australia (where it will be just before sunrise on Saturday morning).

To those who manage to get it in view, the most striking aspect will be the movement of the asteroid against the background stars, as it will move at 0.8 degrees per minute. That?s nearly twice the apparent diameter of the moon!?

As seen through the eyepiece of a high-power telescope, the asteroid will appear to whiz rapidly across your field of view, somewhat reminiscent of the second hand of a clock.

Speaking of telescopes ? you'll need some kind of optical aid to spot 2012 DA14. At its brightest, the space rock will shine at a magnitude of +7.4; under a very dark, clear sky, a person with average eyesight can see stars down to magnitude +6.5. (The higher the magnitude, the dimmer the object).

So to view the asteroid, you?re going to need a good pair of binoculars, or better yet, a moderately big (6-inch or larger) telescope.

How to find it

The asteroid will be sweeping up from below the orbital plane of our planet, which is why it will be visible only to those who live in the tropics or the Southern Hemisphere.prior to about 1 p.m. EST (1800 GMT) on Friday. [See Photos of Asteroid 2012 DA14]

Thereafter, however, 2012 DA14 will vault rapidly northward from a position in the far-southern sky roughly midway between the Southern Cross and the asterism known as the "False Cross." It will race north through the middle of Hydra and across the constellation of Crater and westernmost Virgo before passing very close to the bright star Denebola, which marks the tip of the tail of Leo (the Lion) some minutes before 3:00 p.m. EST (2000 GMT).?

You will need a good star atlas and accurate positions of where the asteroid will be on a minute-by-minute basis. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., provides this information, via its Horizons system.

Go to the Horizons Web interface at?http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons.cgi. For Target Body, type in "2012 DA14;" for Observer Location, enter your latitude and longitude; and for Time Span, select an interval of one minute (because the asteroid will be moving so fast).?

For Table Settings, choose Astrometric R.A. and Dec, as well as Visual Mag. Click Use Selected Settings, and then Generate Ephemeris. Now you?ll have a precise set of positions for the asteroid, custom-made for your location that you can plot on a star map or atlas.

Unfortunately, by the time it gets dark over North America on Friday evening, the main show will be all but over. 2012 DA14 will have faded to about 12th magnitude ? about 100 times dimmer compared to its closest approach ? and it will be moving much more slowly, being positioned roughly between the Big and Little Dippers in the far-northern sky. ?

Celestial shooting gallery

On Oct. 28, 1937, German astronomer Karl Reinmuth (1892-1979) accidentally photographed the long trail of a fast-moving asteroid. Two nights later, this asteroid passed within 460,000 miles (740,000 km) of Earth. Reinmuth named it Hermes, after the Olympian god of boundaries and travelers.?

Since the vast majority of asteroids congregate in the main belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, astronomers at that time felt that Hermes? very close approach was an outstanding exception.?

"Astronomers of the day were somewhat biased," notes NASA?s Paul Chodas. "They had convinced themselves that collisions were too rare to consider."

We have since learned, however, that asteroids make very close approaches to Earth with far greater frequency than once believed.? ?

In fact, our Earth is literally in a "celestial shooting gallery." In this past year alone, for instance, 50 known asteroids have passed within 1.2 million miles (1.9 million km) of Earth.? That comes out to about one per week.

And during this past year, 11 space rocks are known to have come to within less than the moon?s mean distance from Earth ? about 239,000 miles (384,000 km) ?Six of them have passed within less than half the moon?s mean distance of 119,000 miles (191,000 km) from Earth, at an average interval of about two months.

Researchers at JPL's Near-Earth Object Program Office estimate that an asteroid the size of 2012 DA14 flies this close every 40 years on average and that one will impact Earth, on average, about once every 1,200 years.

Joe Rao serves as an instructor and guest lecturer at New York's Hayden Planetarium. He writes about astronomy for The?New York Times and other publications, and he is also an on-camera meteorologist for News 12 Westchester, New York.?Follow SPACE.com on Twitter?@Spacedotcom. We're also on?Facebook?&?Google+.?

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/asteroid-2012-da14s-friday-flyby-stargazers-guide-144435613.html

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