The world will have a mini ice age up to 80 years according to research

The planet earth will experience from 2010 a “mini” ice age that could last 60 to 80 years and decreasing global temperature of 0.2 to one degree centigrade, said today Mexican scientist, Institute of Geophysics of the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM).

The researcher Victor Manuel Velasco said in a statement released by the academic center, that the phenomenon is due to reduced solar activity, which will have “several consequences for you must be prepared to humans”.

Nevertheless, he stated that this cooling “will not offset the global warming which we live, they are parts of climate change and must adapt to each of them.”

“A misdiagnosis could result in a delayed response to this adaptation, as well as economic and human losses,” he said.

The Mexican specialist developed a theory and a physical model called ELSY, whereby it has “confirmed a link between periods of maximum and minimum sun-secular activity, with global warming and cooling periods of land.

Velasco studied glacial and interglacial periods the Earth has experienced and solar variability, and with results formulated his theory, which may in the future to quantify the magnitude of the decrease in solar activity and its impact.

“No assumptions about climate change may explain why these periods are presented. However, this model shows what has happened, what is happening and what will happen in the coming decades and in subsequent centuries,” said researcher .

According to the Mexican scientific theory, the decrease in global temperature is a natural cycle of nature “which is due to reduced solar activity periods alternate in periods of about 120 years.

Velasco acknowledged that climate change exist within the internal factors, such as volcanoes and human activity, and external conditions such as solar activity, but repeated that the sun is the factor most important “contributor to the heating and cooling experienced by the planet .

In the decade of the 80s and 90s were the highest temperatures “because the secular activity of the sun was at its peak, and was the highest in the last 300 years,” he said.

From 2005 the sun entered a period of transition is not abrupt which will last between five and fifteen years, depending on your geographic location, he said.

However, in 2010 parts of the Earth entered a “mini” ice age and “all historic frost occurring in the world are proof of that,” he said.

Some consequences of the “mini” ice age will be droughts and floods elsewhere, he said.

Furthermore, Velasco said there is a “strong correlation” between the temperature drops and the outbreak of pandemics.

For example, during the sixth century there was a minimum of secular solar activity called “Minimum medieval”, which occurred when one of the first outbreak of bubonic plague, he said.

In the early sixteenth century, during the “Sporer Minimum”, smallpox brought by the Spanish ended up virtually the entire population in Mexico and Peru.

A coffee with lunch is best for diabetes

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Drinking coffee reduces the risk of developing diabetes, but only if it is included at lunch, according to new research.

A study of nearly 70,000 women found that women who drank at least a cup of coffee and lunch were a third less likely to develop type 2 diabetes for several years that non-drinkers.

This was applicable for both regular coffee and for decaffeinated and with or without sugar. But drink it at any time of day did not change the risk of diabetes.

“The results suggest that only coffee with lunch reduces the risk of diabetes,” he wrote in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition Team Dr. Daniela S. Sartorelli, University of Sao Paulo in Ribeirao Preto, Brazil.

A dozen studies had linked coffee consumption with reduced risk of type 2 diabetes, which is the variant associated with obesity.

But they know the mechanisms behind this relationship and any previous research had analyzed whether the changed time of consumption.

The researchers looked at 69,532 women participating in a study French in Europe who were between 41 and 72 years to join the investigation and who were followed for about 11 years.

In that period, 1415 developed type 2 diabetes. Those who drank at least three cups of coffee a day were 27 percent less likely to be diabetic.

But at the time of consumption analysis, the researchers found it only at lunch reduced the risk of type 2 diabetes. The group that drank more than one cup daily for lunch was 33 percent less likely to develop diabetes.

The “lunch effect” was found only with the black coffee with no coffee. But given the small number of participants who drank the combination at noon, the result is not too strong.

The benefits of drinking coffee at breakfast may be associated with time of day or the type of food eaten at noon, the team concluded.

On the quake many Latin American cities moved several feet to the west

The great earthquake of 8.8 magnitude that struck the coast a few days ago, Chile was able to “move” the entire city of Concepcion, at least 3 meters to the west. And also crowded out other parts of South America to the Falkland Islands, and Fortaleza in Brazil.
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These are, for now, preliminary steps produced from data collected by researchers at four universities and several agencies, including geophysicists working in Chile and Argentina.

These data allowed to have according to experts at the University of Ohio, Memphis and other research centers, “a clearer picture of the energy released this earthquake, considered the fifth most powerful since the available measurement tools.

Buenos Aires moved

Buenos Aires, Argentina’s capital moved from the quake’s epicenter, about 1 inch (2.54 centimeters) to the west. And the capital of Chile, Santiago, moved about 28 centimeters to the west-southwest.

The cities of Valparaiso and Mendoza, Argentina, northeast of Concepcion, also moved to “distance” significantly.

The epicenter was located in part of the ring called “Fire,” an area of great seismic tensions surrounding the Pacific Ocean. Along this line, the tectonic plates move, interact, and build up pressure rub against other boards. That is the energy released in the form of eruptions, tsunamis and earthquakes.

The recent earthquake in Chile occurred when the Nazca tectonic plate slipped under (it subdujo) other boards of the subcontinent.

Thanks to GPS

The research team that conducted this research was successful that data on the movement of cities by comparing the figures accurate latitude and longitude provided by GPS (Global Positioning Satellite) and comparing with the previous figures and known before the earthquake.

Bill Gates is no longer the richest man in the world

For the third consecutive year we have a new richest man in the world.

With the rising prices of its various telecommunications companies, including mobile phone giant America Movil (AMX – news – people), Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim Helu has managed to overcome the Americans Bill Gates and Warren Buffett and has become the wealthiest person on the planet, achieving the highest position in the Forbes 2010 billionaires in the world.

Mexican Slim’s fortune has grown to about 53 dollars or 500 million, which is the same, has increased by 18 500 million in 12 months. Its shares in America Movil, which Slim has a holding of 23 000 million, have risen 35% in one year.

This large sum of money has placed in front of co-founder of Microsoft (MSFT – news – people), Bill Gates, who held the title of world’s richest man for 14 years.

Today Gates’ net worth is about 53 000 million, which puts the billionaire in the second spot on the list. His estate has increased by 13 000 million dollars a year, thanks to an increase of 50% of the shares of Microsoft in a period of 12 months. Also participating in their personal investment vehicle, Cascade (CAE – news – people) has increased in value, in line with other markets.

Buffett’s fortune has increased by 10 000 million, reaching 47 000 million, thanks to the rise in shares of Berkshire Hathaway (BRK – news – people). Buffet is ranked third.

The “Oracle of Omaha” wisely invested 5000 million dollars in Goldman Sachs (GS – news – people) and 3000 million in General Electric (GE – news – people) in full collapse of markets in 2008. Also recently acquired the rail giant Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNI – news – people) by 26 000 million.

In his annual letter to shareholders, Buffett wrote: “In the chaos of the last two years, we have a large sums of money to work. When it rains gold lame no thimble, looking for a basin.”

This is what they have done many plutocrats. In fact, what last year was nothing more than economic wasteland today has become a bonanza for the billionaires. Most of the world’s richest people have seen their fortunes fat over last year.

This year, the world’s billionaires have a net average of about 3,500 U.S. dollars, representing an increase of $ 500 million in 12 months. 1011 The world billionaires with assets above 10 U.S. $ 000 million, last year was 793. However, there has not been exceeded the 2008 record, in 1125 we have billionaires with fortunes in excess of that figure. From the list of billionaires last year, only 12% has been a decline in their fortunes.

American billionaires continue to dominate the list, but each time give more ground. In the list, 40% are American, and last year accounted for 45%.

American billionaires have 38% of the $ 3.6 trillion of the total amounting to the sum of all the great fortunes of the world when their fortunes last year accounted for 44% of the total.

In the list there are 97 new members and only 16% are American. Asia, by contrast, has registered strong gains. In this region there are 104 new tycoons, which have only 14 less than Europe, thanks to several large tenders in open bags and promotion.

Among the new billionaires are the American names like Isaac Perlmutter, who sold Marvel Entertainment (MVL – news – people) to Disney (DIS – news – people) by 4000 million dollars last December. The Spider-Man mogul has made almost $ 900 million in cash and 20 million Disney shares in the transaction.

Other new names on the list: 27 Chinese billionaires, and Li Shufu, whose factory car, Geely, announced that he plans to buy Volvo from Ford in December. It expects the transaction to be closed in March 2010.

Finland and Pakistan must first billionaires on the list.

China (Hong Kong included) has 89 billionaires on the list for the first time, putting this country in the second position as a number of magnates are concerned, only after the United States.

Russia has 62 billionaires, of whom 28 are old acquaintances from the list, which last year had not appeared due to the collapse of the commodities market. This year 164 billionaires have returned to the list.

Eleven countries have doubled, at least, the number of billionaires who have entered the list with last year (eg in the case of China, India, Turkey and South Korea).

Thirty members of the list last year and not in the select club of billionaires. Among those magnates who have not met the requirements, include Thor Bjorgolfsson, the Russian Boris Berezovsky and Maan Al-Sanea of Saudi Arabia.

In addition, 13 members of last year’s list have died, as the developer Melvin Simon and glass magnate William Davidson.

Top 10 Richest People by Forbes Magazine 2010 :
RANK NAME CITIZENSHIP AGE NET WORTH ($BIL) RESIDENCE
1 Carlos Slim Helu & family Mexico 70 53.5 Mexico
2 William Gates III United States 54 53.0 United States
3 Warren Buffett United States 79 47.0 United States
4 Mukesh Ambani India 52 29.0 India
5 Lakshmi Mittal India 59 28.7 United Kingdom
6 Lawrence Ellison United States 65 28.0 United States
7 Bernard Arnault France 61 27.5 France
8 Eike Batista Brazil 53 27.0 Brazil
9 Amancio Ortega Spain 74 25.0 Spain
10 Karl Albrecht Germany 90 23.5 Germany

Experts – Chilean earthquake response was exemplary

SANTIAGO DE CHILE (AP) – Michelle Bachelet leaves the presidency on Thursday with some of the country in ruins and his popularity soared.

As much as many people say the government’s response to the devastating earthquake of 27 February was slow and inefficient natural disaster experts say, however, the performance of the Chilean authorities was as good as it should be used as a model for the rest of the world.

A survey says the majority of Chileans think the answer was a bit slow and that the victims of the earthquake spent several nights in the open while their homes were looted. Popularity of Bachelet, who handing over power to his successor Sebastián Piñera on Thursday, remains intact. That does not surprise the experts.

Those who understand these issues supported the navy and emergency office did not issue a timely warning of a tsunami that could have saved lives and that Bachelet is perhaps a little late in getting the military to the streets to control looting.

But they add that, in return, there were many things well. Praise in particular has been stressed that international aid could respond to the specific needs of the country, which quickly restored road and that the military were entrusted with handling the logistics. All these measures made it possible to distribute 12,000 tons of aid in just ten days.

And despite extensive damage to hospitals, there were few deaths from the tsunami waters retreated. The death toll of 497 people is relatively low for an earthquake of this magnitude, although there are hundreds missing.

The continuing criticism of his management resulted in the resignation Wednesday of Carmen Fernandez, director of the National Emergency Office, Ministry of Interior. She insisted on blaming the army for failing to maintain its tsunami warning.

He stated that when he learned that under the government of Pinera would leave “virtually zero” also influenced his decision to resign.

The vital road that crosses the country from north to south was repaired in a day. Thick plates were placed in metal cracks, holes were filled with gravel and debris were cleared soon a dozen pedestrian bridges destroyed. The rapid repairs made possible the passage of a convoy of 100 trucks of aid left the capital to the most affected sectors.

“We were where you had to be immediately,” Bachelet said in a television interview prior to submission to the millionaire conservative government Piñera.

The president said it was frustrating to have to make decisions without having all the necessary information, then stopped working seismographs to the electricity supply is cut, the Navy gave confusing information about the tsunami and at first were not collected evidence of looting. Bachelet said the country needs to improve its alarm systems and emergency communications.

Veterans of other natural disasters, however, are impressed with the Chilean answer.

“There is nothing more frustrating than to arrive with help from a site and see that it is delivered to people in need. Here nothing is withheld. Everything is distributed in the act,” said Col. Julio Lopez, commander of a squadron U.S. Air Force who has been ferrying aid and people in cargo aircraft C-130 between Santiago and Concepcion, the closest large city to the epicenter of the quake.

Ten days after the earthquake, more than 90% of households in the affected area have electricity and water, and half a million survivors are receiving water by truck. A number of volunteers attending to 14,000 soldiers who collaborate in the reconstruction and aid, and a successful telethon raised $ 60 million, which allowed for emergency shelter for the majority of ordinary people who are homeless.

Experts say it is normal for people in affected areas, which were isolated initially have complained and have felt abandoned. But experts stress that the authorities’ response was more than adequate for a tragedy that had overwhelmed the majority of governments.

The 8.8 magnitude quake was 500 times stronger than magnitude 7 that shook Haiti recently. It was so intense that changed the Earth’s orbit and moved to Concepcion about three meters (ten feet) to the west, according to scientists.

However, Chile’s infrastructure and modern buildings, built to withstand earthquakes of magnitude 9, the majority resisted and suffered almost no damage of importance. Chile registered a death toll that was negligible compared with that of Haiti, where some 230,000 people died.

“The reality is much better than initially thought,” said Raul Rivera, president of Innovative Forum, which promotes economic development in Chile.

Pinera has made calls for unity and solidarity, but also criticized the outgoing government.

“When there is an earthquake of this magnitude, you know you going to interrupt basic services like electricity, drinking water and will generate fear, and will also generate behaviors of vandalism and looting, public policy must ensure from day one “Pinera said in remarks to the DNA radio. “Here we lost some time to establish a state of emergency (…) I publicly asked the government to establish a state of emergency on Sunday morning,” said Piñera.

A poll commissioned by the newspaper El Mercurio, which supports Piñera said that 72% of Chileans believed that the government response was slow and inefficient, and that 60% believe that the distribution of aid was also too slow and inefficient. In the survey, 600 people were consulted in Santiago and the margin of error was 4%.

However, a larger consultation made before and after the earthquake indicated that Bachelet’s popularity rating of 84% remains intact.

Most Chileans blame the armed and emergency services have not issued a tsunami alert. And while 59% disapprove of the way they responded to the Bachelet looting, over 90% of respects and believes that the president cares about them, according to a survey by Adimark / GfK among 1,100 people nationwide, with a margin of error of 3%.

Chileans quickly resolved coordination problems that caused much trouble in Haiti and on the occasion of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 in the U.S., Lopez said.

In the case of Katrina, it seemed that during the first nine days no one had control of the situation, which led to chaos and endangered many lives, said Lopez. He added that “every man did what he thought. Everyone wanted to help and no one directed traffic.

In Haiti chaos reigned at the beginning. In that country there was no effective government and when the planes arrived with help, no one knew what to do, said Lopez. Foreign non-governmental organizations were fighting because they give priority and lots of food, medicine and water were not distributed promptly.

Bachelet, however, ordered a review of the situation and, within hours, has asked other countries providing emergency hospitals, satellite phones, floating bridges and dialysis centers, specialized equipment, which complemented the efforts of the Chileans.

“In this case there was an effective and well executed,” said Mark Ghilarducci, an American who has 25 years experience in relief efforts after natural disasters. “I have seen governments that take longer to establish a plan of action and a lot more coordination and poor communication.

“It’s amazing that there were so few deaths with such a strong quake,” said Ghilarducci. “The wait was not long. There was a very quick and effective response. The search and rescue teams and firefighters were where they had to be.”

“The government took 36 hours to take the military into the streets, but that’s not much time when talking about a disaster of this magnitude,” he said.

Consult a tax advisor for your return goes smoothly

By signing your tax form 1040, agrees to abide by the tax law that makes him responsible for paying their taxes, regardless of who prepares your return. When it comes to clear errors, whether innocent or not, the Internal Revenue Service, or IRS, for taxpayers, not the person completing the forms.

So before you give your tax life to someone else, make sure the person in charge of your taxes is right for you and will do the right thing when to file your return.

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The easiest way to make sure it has a trusted tax advisor is to get a certified public accountant, recommends Cindy Hockenberry, a member agent and spokesman for the National Association of Tax Professionals.

Find a certified public accountant, a staff member of the association or a tax attorney.

“Typically, these advisers must maintain continuing education credits to maintain their designation,” says Hockenberry. “This is a real advantage for taxpayers because it will have some additional security to know that the counselor who is chosen date on the latest changes in the tax law.

Investigate a little more
Once you locate a properly qualified advisor, do a little more background. Find out how long you’ve been in the business of preparing tax returns, Hockenberry says, and what services it provides.

In addition, investigate whether the advisor belongs to a professional organization. “This indicates a dedication to their career choice,” says Hockenberry.

Rely on references
References are easier to verify when using a consultant recommended by your family and friends. If you choose someone completely new to you, do not be afraid to ask for references and investigate to see if satisfied with the service.

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Hockenberry also recommended to check the consultant’s fees before you do some work. “This will eliminate any surprises when you go to collect your taxes”, it says, “and also tells you if the adviser charges more compared to other counselors in your geographic location.”

Accessibility throughout the year
And since tax issues can arise at any time, find an advisor who is available and have regular office hours after 15 April. “There is nothing more frustrating for a taxpayer when you can not find your advisor during the year,” says Hockenberry.

Most large accounting firms have websites where details of the franchise locations and hours of operation. If you decide to use an independent consultant, you can search by zip code in the database of members of the National Association of Tax Professionals to find a counselor near you.

Cisco router has speeds of 12 speed internet connection

NEW YORK (AFP) – U.S. manufacturer of telecommunications equipment Cisco introduced a ‘router’ 12 times more potent than their opponents, with a very fast internet connection that can be downloaded in a second all the texts from the library U.S. Congress.
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This new ‘router’ “triples the capacity of its predecessor,” the company-leader in networking equipment, “adding” to download the entire printed collection of the Library of Congress in less than a second. ”

The system will allow such “movies are downloaded in less than four minutes,” said Cisco.

With 12 times the traffic capacity of its nearest competitor, the Cisco CRS-3 “is designed to provide the basis for the next generation Internet and go to the phenomenal growth rate of video streams, laptops, and new services line in this decade and beyond, “explains the group.

The team is led to high-speed networks ( “backbone” or “dorsal”) of telecom firms and Internet service providers, which could with new equipment to increase the amount of data they handle and the speed at which they travel.

A cord is the central part of a telecommunications network to interconnect smaller networks.

The title of the company just increased 0.04% to $ 26.14 at 1730 GMT after the presentation of this unit, suggesting that analysts did not share the importance of the announcement that, as Cisco had promised, would “change forever Internet and its impact on consumers, businesses and the state. ”

According to analyst Douglas McIntyre said in 247WallSt.com specialized site, the market was disappointed because the president of Cisco “forgot to ask if it was really important to have a faster internet or if internet access providers would pay for it.”

CRS-3 has a transmission capacity of up to 322 terabits per second, or 322,000 gigabytes per second.

This means, at least in theory, this router would have the ability to, for example, to enable all Chinese people simultaneously connected by videoconference.

Cisco said the telephone operator AT & T and tested its equipment, a cost of $ 90,000, as part of an experiment in dorsal or “backbone” of 100 gigabytes between New Orleans (south) and Miami (Southeast).

This initiative comes a month after the internet giant Google announced its intention to become a pioneer of internet access in the coming months installing broadband networks hundred times faster than existing in several U.S. locations.

By way of comparison, the fiber service operator Verizon, one of the fastest in the U.S. market, reaching 30 to 50 megabytes per second, while Google is expected to offer connection to 1 gigabyte per second.

Eight ways to pay less on your cell phone bill

When you hear stories about how the cost of things is not the same level of money earned by individuals, typically referred to the facts that the costs of healthcare are rising and college tuition are completely divorced from reality . And with good reason, of course. But it is also important to recognize that families are spending money on their budget items that were not part of the checkbooks of our parents.

Think about it: big and huge television contracts with services that are accompanied. Computers and Internet monthly service they require.

Y: cell phones.

In our house, we are about to change to a single supplier to provide us with all the services of TV / Internet / phone to save some money. But the fact is that what we are paying for our telephone service as a family is quite alarming. We still have a fixed telephone line, which, even when we have a pretty basic package, costing $ 60 a month with taxes and fees. And now that four members of our family of five have cell phones and we have a family plan cell phone with text messages, we are paying about $ 100 a month for that statement. All change.

So this fairly new spending for families deserve some attention to ensure he is not paying more than necessary. ShopSmart magazine Consumer Reports has provided some good tips to help us achieve just that, starting with the important work of analyzing your receipt, use and habits of calls and text messages so make sure you have the right plan for his family. Here are 8 tips ShopSmart:

1. Check your minutes. Study their cell phone bills over the past six months to see how many minutes you actually use and if you get some available each month. (Or, of course, if it exceeds the allotted minutes). As pointed out this story from the New York Times, unlimited calling plans may not be the best option for most families, even as major cellular providers like AT & T and Verizon have been reduced from $ 100 to $ 70 price your choice of unlimited calls per month. An analysis found that LLC Valid unlimited calling plans are profitable only for 7 percent of cellphone users. Most teenagers rarely make calls on their cell phones, at least to his friends prefer texting.

2. Make good use of your cellular phone family plan. If you have a family plan for multiple numbers, use it. Do not call your spouse or children using your landline. Use the cell because their calls are included in your monthly bill.

3. Use your gifts well. If your cellular phone company offers free minutes to designated phone numbers, record the numbers that mark more often but be sure to get the most out of this presentation savings by limiting his list to landlines and cell phone numbers outside your network.

4. Choose the right package for text messaging. Paying for individual text messages quickly becomes something ridiculously expensive, and if you have a teenager in his plan, probably not even want to think of a permissive approach. Unless their plan to block all text messages, discuss honestly their habits with text messages (and their families) to choose the appropriate amount (or unlimited package) so that no surprises when you receive your state account.

5. Talk on the phone. If you come to receive one of those receipts impressively high because their habits are not in sync with your payment plan, call your cell phone company to clarify the charges and insist on a discount for the receipt of that month, while changes to a plan that reflects the true habits of your family.

6. Consider a data plan. If you finish checking their email and surfing the Internet more than I expected, consider adding a data plan to your monthly bill so as not to incur costly charges of pay-per-use to increase your monthly data plan. Or, leave the navigation to the computer and only use your cell phone to make calls and send messages.

7. Discuss all opciones.Pase some time comparing the plans of the major cell phone companies on Internet sites. You can also use a service like billshrink.com for free, or pay for one as myvalidas.com (its base price is $ 5) for major review plans based on their usage and needs and view recommendations for phones and plans according to they.

8. Eliminate charges for termination of contract. Make an informed decision and to respect the term of your contract to avoid charges of up to $ 350 per telephone line if you change your company when your contract is still valid. A few months before it expires, it’s time for serious introspection and weigh your options, in order to find the best phone and service plan that fits your budget.

We have all watched in disbelief as our cell phone bill at some point. Do you how he has managed to reduce it to a manageable size that fits your needs and budget?