Whisky waste could boost vehicles – biofuel for cars made from whiskey
LONDON (AP) – The Scottish scientists claim to have developed a biofuel for cars with the remains that produces the distillation of whiskey.
Researchers at Napier University in Edinburgh have produced a type of fuel called butanol using “pot ale” _ the liquid left over after distillation in copper stills _ and “Draffan” cereal grain used in the manufacturing process.
They argue that butanol can be used in ordinary vehicles without having to modify the engines. And unlike some biofuels is extracted from waste products and is not necessary to plant or harvest specific plants for it.
Researchers say they have applied for a patent for fuel and intend to establish a company for distribution at British service stations.
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Computer recreate the attack of a “terror bird” – bird five feet high
The Andalgalornis, a bird five feet high that could not fly and lived in the Miocene (23 to 5 million years ago), he resorted to the techniques of a fighter to attack their prey, according to an international team of scientists.
Munida a large and rigid skull topped by a curved beak and sharp, the agile creature attacked and repeatedly drew back after each blow must tip your victims, says a study published in the journal PLoS ONE.
The study was a result of a scan of the skull of the animal and engineering techniques that allowed their movements to reproduce in 3D on a computer, is the first to analyze the method of attack of a copy of a large group of extinct ratite birds (not flying) Phorusrhacidae family, popularly known as “terror birds” and skull for its imposing size.
These birds evolved about 60 million years in isolation in South America and were divided into 18 known species of different sizes, which could reach 2.1 meters in the case of bigger, Kelenken.
“Nobody had tried to conduct a very comprehensive biomechanical analysis of a terror bird,” said lead study author Frederick Degrange, the Museum of La Plata / CONICET in Argentina.
The sample studied lived in northwestern Argentina six million years ago, measuring 1.4 meters tall and weighed about 40 kilos.
His skull was 37 cm and was equipped with a beak curved like a hawk and surprisingly hollow inside.
The Andalgalornis was different from other birds by the rigidity of his skull, a feature apparently related to the inability to fly and its large size.
Scientists from Argentina, USA, Australia and France were able to determine their method of hunting by comparing 3D models of the terror bird and two extant species, the eagle and the seriema, considered his closest living relative.
The computer simulation confirmed the anatomical results achieved by analyzing the skull with the scanner.
The skull of the bird was robust enough to allow him to use his beak up and down but not side to side, and the bill was in danger of breaking hole whether to deal with a barrage being discussed.
The researchers also measured the bite force of the bird compared with the eagle and the seriema and determined that it was less than expected.
Therefore, the terror bird was forced to use a method similar to the boxers, consisting of a strategy of attack and retreat, with precise strokes like an ax.
The terror birds that fed on mammals are now extinct and were competing with saber-tooth marsupials, became the top predators in their environment.
At least one of them, Titanis, reached North America made between two and three million years, but the species disappeared from the face of the earth shortly after.
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Vacations are good for all – bring them out meal!
Vacations are good for employees and companies. The studies confirm this. One recently presented by University of the Rockies, an institution specializing in graduate and doctoral studies in the areas of psychology, confirms that the benefits of the holidays are a peak when 10 days.
Dena Ann Dries, responsible for the survey of 143 full-time employees (not including personal or self-contained piece) between 21 and 62 years of age, have found that paid vacation time metal promotes the health of employees, increased satisfaction for the work and helps to promote job stability.
“Paid vacation or personal time off a direct impact on employee satisfaction with their work which increases retention and reduces the costs of training new workers because of labor turnover,” says Dries in their abstract. Worker satisfaction with their jobs means less cost to the employer.
According to this study, the ideal vacation time, which yields the greatest benefits for both workers and businesses, is 10 days holiday. This study does not appear that those who had more time, three weeks or more, obtain a greater benefit palpable.
“Good until the end”
“The holidays are good until you return to reality, are good until the end,” he complains, half seriously and half in jest my friend Isabel, who was accustomed to enjoying a full month! holiday because that was the minimum required by law in Spain, where he worked before moving to Miami. “I think that everyone who returns from holiday clashes with reality and part of the happiness he enjoyed that moment fades,” says Isabel. “In the U.S. sticks more, I guess it’s because the long holidays are much less common.”
Facing what may come after the holidays, often steals the happiness of the rest: physical exhaustion accumulated unaccustomed activities, no cumulative work done during your absence in addition to regular daily burden, and concern accounts payable of the costs accrued vacation.
In the experience of Christine Moriarty, CFP (Certified Financial Planner), educator and president of Money Peace.com, one of the concerns of those who go on vacation is how to deal with the accounts of credit cards they will receive when they return. And it recommends that if these holidays are already loaded on the cards, start saving for this for the next. “To avoid the ghosts of holidays past, begins to contribute to a savings account to meet the costs of your next vacation, put money aside from your regular bills, and preferably in another bank to avoid the temptation to dispose of it” suggests Moriarty. And remember that it is much more comforting to save for something positive as a future vacation, in order to fulfill obligations such as paying debts.
In fact, the happiness of a holiday is often perceived as soon as we start the preparations, according to results of a study conducted by Jeroen Nawijn Erasmus University in Rotterdam and Brenda University of Applied Sciences, which interviewed 1530 Dutchmen 974 adults who took vacations. It was also noted that the feeling of happiness on vacation last long after returning to the routine, if the vacation was very relaxing, happiness can last between two and eight weeks.
Vacation is not just going on a trip
Moriarty confirmed that the United States many people do not take enough vacation primarily because “they perceive that taking a vacation is extremely expensive.” Other plans do not disdain to be absent for long enough to take a trip. “Most people think of holidays as” all or nothing “, the trick is to see the holidays as an option that can accommodate existing conditions, you can find a workable compromise option,” says the author.
And the holiday is not just travel. Vacationing is taking the time to devote to one, personal interests, far from the daily routine and responsibilities of work or home. Moriarty counters the excuses most with easy ideas for a holiday:
“Make short trips during the week and spend the weekend at home. Change of environment and not spend as much as rates during the week tend to be lower than the weekend.
-Take some vacation days to learn a skill, a hobby or take a course. While you’re at home, your mind will be on vacation dealing with things outside your regular routine that will surely satisfy any taste or desire much yours.
“Go camping, visit family or make a tourist in your city.
Do not take more expensive vacations can cost: your health or life
In 2001, a survey by the University of New York at Oswego among 12,000 men between 35 and 57 years suggests they do not take vacations increases the risk of coronary heart disease by 30% and 20% of deaths. Rather than save money by not going on vacation or earn rewards with the company, you are dangerously risking your life and your health. Dr. Brooks Gump, co-author of the study was explained very simple: “The holidays help to reduce stress, allow you to break away from your work and everyday worries.” Also people who work in excess exercise less, eat worse and tend to sleep poorly, three serious errors for heart health.
So plan your vacation, so are a few days to rest at home, and be sure to include these recommendations – a few courtesy of the Friends of Wells Fargo (www.elfuturoentusmanos.org) – to return to the routine does not very traumatic:
“Go back one day before reintegrarte to work for some rest and update your home, your luggage and your mind.
“Look for reintegrarte to work on a Thursday or Friday. If you start on Monday, will be a long week.
“Do you pay automatically deposited: prevent loss and will be available faster to make the payments.
-Set electronic payments for your bills so you do not forget a payment, and if necessary, can make them from anywhere on the Internet.
-Get alerts and Internet access to your accounts and know what is happening in them.
-Keep track of all expenses you do in the holidays. Add them and adjust the estimated budget where will the extra payments if you spent the spending plan. If you see charges you do not match, immediately notifies the issuer of the account. Could be an identity theft or cloning of a card.
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Top 10 world’s most expensive foods
It is always attractive to know that there are certain things that, with certainty, we can never get: a $ 500,000 Ferrari, a caviar of 25,000 or some potatoes that are only available in France and cost 500 euros a kilo. Perhaps the fascination with the prohibitive, for what lives only in dreams because we can not possess (is it not a good definition for the word “desire”?). But let us not so philosophical. These are the 10 most expensive foods on the planet.
1. Almas Caviar
There are different types of caviar, but this is the most expensive on the face of the Earth. Almas caviar is the (means “diamond” in Russian), whose eggs are distinguished by a surprisingly clear color. Its origin is the albino Beluga sturgeon of the Caspian Sea and is sold in cans of 24-carat gold. Is achieved only through the London House & Prunier importer and the price ranges between 16,000 and $ 25,000 per kilo.
2. Alba white truffles
They are available in the Langhe area of Piedmont in northern Italy, and many have dubbed the “white gold” because of its pale color. Italian White Alba truffle is, without doubt, the most prestigious and valued in the world. While a few months ago, a woman paid u $ s 105,000 in an auction in London to buy one that weighed 1.2 kilos. And that’s not all: the news agency Associated Press reported that a Hong Kong investor purchased a Alba Italy for $ 160,000.
3. A thousand dollar omelet
How naive was that thought that an omelet is made with only a couple of eggs and some cheese. In the Parker Meridien restaurant in New York there are few who dare to ask her glorious omelet, which costs no more and no less than one thousand dollars. What happens is that, in addition to six eggs, 283 grams of Sevruga caviar and a whole lobster.
4. Golden Curry
The Bombay Brasserie London restaurant offers the most expensive curry in the world, worth 2273 euros. The dish-a creation of chef of the place, one Prahlad Samundari Hedge-called Khazana, means “treasure of Seafood” and consists of marine snails, lobster, caviar, white truffles and edible gold dust.
5. The life of a walnut
Macadamia nut is the most expensive in the world and comes from the macadamia tree, which produces the fruit after nearly 10 years, in particular climatic conditions (rainfall and a lot of extremely fertile soil). The cost of a kilo of this product easily exceeds $ 3,000.
6. The potato Bonnot
The french fries “The Bonnotte” are grown on the island Noirmoutier, in fields fertilized only with seaweed around it. The cost of the kilo reaches 500 euros. Imagine what it would cost to make a tortilla.
7. A bagel author
Has very high esteem the chef Frank Tujague, the Westin Hotel in New York. The man created a bagel than a thousand dollars, the price is justified only because the cream cheese is sprinkled with white Alba truffles priceless.
8. Matsutake Mushrooms
The matsutake is a Japanese mushroom that grows at the foot of the pines (also in Sweden). It is harvested in September and has always been associated with longevity, but its price would give him a heart attack at either: 400 grams cost about a thousand dollars.
9. Wagyu Beef
Beef is more expensive there and belongs to the Japanese Wagyu breed of cattle, fed on pasture selected hyper Island Kobe, Japan. Its meat is highly prized in Europe and the U.S. for its texture and flavor (also known as Japanese Black). To get an idea of what it costs, just look at the letter from Wolfgang Puck’s restaurant in Beverly Hills: Two hundred grams of Wagyu beef are priced at $ 160.
10. Pizza Royale
The chef Domenico Crolla would not cut corners when it comes to creating his great masterpiece. So he gave life to the great Pizza Royale 007, made especially for a charity auction on e-Bay at a cost of $ 4,000. Its ingredients: Sparks 24 carat gold, caviar, champagne, medallions of venison, lobster and smoked salmon marinated in cognac. Ah! It also has mozzarella.
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How to “manage” a difficult boss
Yael Zofia was sure she would be fired.
This woman extroverted, talkative, had a boss with a totally opposite personality. His boss was in charge of the international division performance management and leadership development in J. P. Morgan. Yael and her boss had to talk often, but emails to the long, detailed, and earthy, that he wrote it, his boss replied concisely, even in monosyllables. So, she recalls, “I wrote him speaking of the approach, process, project duration,” he recalls. And he answered: “Yes.” To which I said “okay what?”
Very frustrated, Yael had to grit their teeth and adapt your communication style to the ways of his superior. “I was irritated by having to send reports to him, until I realized that he needed were lists of key points.” He began to write only the important details of his notes and his boss sent him emails almost as brief as your answers.
Used this strategy for several weeks, then went on vacation with a friend. “My relationship with my boss was so difficult that I thought I was going to fire when he returned.” However, when he returned to New York, discovered that she had been promoted to vice president.
This occurred in the early nineties. Zofia did not realize at the time, but in fact had used a technique that many subordinates have been used successfully oppressed in their complicated relationship with superiors. What in English is called “managing up.” In other words, this technique for managing the boss is to identify their weaknesses, paying attention to his management style and communication and develop a strategy to deal with this.
In 1998, Zofia J. left P. Morgan and opened his own consulting business and guidance for executives, AIM Strategies. In 2008 he published a book on “managing up.” Today, this technique is a major focus of his consulting work.
“Think of the relationship with our boss as the most important within the company-recommended. Think of our leader, not as a superior, but as a customer.” He adds the important thing is to play with the boss in your own backyard.
Zofia has determined that there are four basic categories of chiefs who feels trends, the extrovert, the perfectionist and stable. However, he admits that human beings are complex creatures and can have a bit of all these traits. Once we know what the style of our head, we can devise a way to treat it.
For example, if the boss in question is a perfectionist, the kind that does not support any chaos and expects employees to be experts in their tasks, to do a lot of background research, ask questions before embarking on a project, provide a lot of data to head and go checking whether we do it right, preparing to do so several reports of our progress.
What if our supervisor is a downright incompetent? Zofia also has a solution for that. A client of hers working at a company manufacturing medical devices and had to be accountable to the owner’s daughter. The company manufactured resonance imaging machines highly sophisticated medical, which were built with parts made in different countries, like India, China and Israel. The challenge of coordinating disparate sources had put his head was very nervous and continually bothered to ask the clerk for information. Even interrupting your meetings or conference calls with providers of remote countries.
“My client was beginning to have health problems with this issue,” recalls Zofia. Was affecting his personal life. He came to think of taking Prozac, even. ” Zofia advised the employee to consider the erratic personality and his boss tried to develop a strategy to calm her. Instead of confronting his boss form certified, the client Zofia spoke with foreign suppliers and gathered information. Then, developed a spreadsheet where you could see the status of each piece and when come to the factory. “In this way, managed to give you some peace of mind to her boss,” says Zofia. The strategy worked. In addition, the employee established very good relationships with suppliers, which helped devise all better. “It’s not that the worship of his head,” says Zofia, “but keeps his job and better support.”
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Earthquake in Haiti caused by previously unknown fault
A previously unidentified fault was responsible for the earthquake of magnitude 7.0 on the Richter scale occurred in Haiti on January 12, no failure to originally blamed for the accident, scientists announced Tuesday.
The massive earthquake killed more than 200,000 deaths and left more than 1.5 million people homeless.
When the earthquake, scientists thought that there was not much doubt about the culprit, said geophysicist Eric Calais, Purdue University, the conference of the American Geophysical Union Meeting in the event of the Americas, held in Brazil.
The fault was quickly identified as Enriquillo guilty, but new data have revealed a more complicated picture.
“The responsibility of the earthquake fault was not to Enriquillo, but a new failure,” said Calais. “This was a big surprise that I thought that our calculations were wrong.”
Since the earthquake, teams of geoscientists have deployed instruments in the region to obtain a detailed and specific picture of how the ground moved during the quake. The researchers analyzed the readings of instruments, studied satellite images, researched evidence and made marine field assessments in the affected region.
Earthquakes usually occur along faults, which are fractures in rock plates of Earth’s crust. A segment of the fault 40 km long broke during the quake.
The plates forming the Earth’s crust move relative to each other, most of the time an imperceptibly slow pace, on average, the plates are moved between one and 10 centimeters per year, which is almost as fast as the growing nails. In the case of the earthquake in Haiti, the Caribbean Plate and the North American Plate sliding side by side to the west-east. This is known as transforming edge, ie a vertical fracture where the plates have moved mostly horizontally.
Preliminary reports suggested that the earthquake that devastated Haiti Fault occurred in Enriquillo, affecting Haiti and is located along the boundary between the Caribbean and North American plates. This was based on preliminary observations and previous studies suggest that such failure was about to break.
The research team discovered, however, that some of the faults in the area moved in unexpected directions. Enriquillo failure is what is known as a vertical fault, but new data suggest that the earthquake did not occur on a vertical fault, Calais said.
“Most of the edge, if not all, was not identified on the fault, not the Enriquillo” said Calais.
System Fault-Plantain Garden Enriquillo has not produced a major earthquake in recent decades. This failure is the likely source of historically devastating earthquakes occurred in 1860, 1770 and 1751, but has not been confirmed that none are associated with this fault.
Scientists are not sure exactly how dangerous is the failure not identified. One possibility is that is part of a system failure not known before and research is underway to find out more. “We need to know to assess the risk that” Calais said. “It’s crucial.”
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Discover new antibiotic-resistant bacteria in India
LONDON (Reuters) – People who embark on journeys of “health tourism” to India and Pakistan to receive cheaper medical treatments are at risk of contracting and expanding a new drug-resistant bacteria, according to an international team of scientists.
Researchers have discovered a new gene called metallo-lactamase from New Delhi, or NDM-1 in patients from Asia and the United Kingdom.
The NDM-1 causes the bacteria highly resistant to most antibiotics, including the strongest class, called carbapenems, and experts say there are no new drugs to combat it.
With the boom in international travel for medical care-particularly cheaper cosmetic surgery, but scientists fear that this new superbug may soon spread throughout the world.
“Globally, this is really a concern,” said Timothy Walsh, of Cardiff University in Britain, who led the study.
“Due to medical tourism and international travel in general, resistance to this type of bacteria has the potential to spread around the world very, very fast. And there is nothing on the horizon (drug development) to combat it,” the author.
Almost as soon as the first antibiotic, penicillin, was introduced in the 1940s, bacteria began to develop resistance to its effects, which encourages scientists to generate many new generations of these drugs.
But excessive and wrong use has helped to increase infection “superbugs” resistant to drugs, such as Staphylococcus aureus resistant to methicillin (MRSA).
In a study published Wednesday in the journal The Lancet Infectious Diseases, Walsh’s team concluded that the NDM-1 gene is becoming increasingly common in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan and is beginning to export to the United Kingdom through patients returning from these countries.
“India also performs cosmetic surgery patients in Europe and America and that is as likely to be extended throughout the world,” the researchers wrote in a report on its findings.
GLOBAL PROBLEM
Multiresistant bacteria to drugs are a growing problem in hospitals worldwide, marked by the growth of infections caused by bacteria such as MRSA.
Walsh and his team collected samples of bacteria from hospitalized patients in two areas of India, Chennai and Haryana and patients referred to the national laboratory in the UK between 2007 and 2009.
This found 44 infected by these bacteria Chennai NDM-1, 26 in Haryana, 37 in Britain and 73 elsewhere in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan.
A number of British patients infected had recently visited India and Pakistan to receive hospital treatment, including cosmetic surgery, the authors said.
But more worrying is that these bacteria affected by the NDM-1 are resistant to most antibiotics, including carbapenems, the researchers said, a type of these drugs whose use is generally reserved for emergencies in cases of multidrug resistant bacteria, such as MRSA and C-Difficile.
The experts who commented on the findings of Walsh said it was important to remain alert about this new superbug, and begin to monitor their presence as soon as possible.
“If this threat to public health is ignored, sooner or later the medical community could face a (bacteria) causing carbapenem resistant to common infections, which would result in treatment failures with a substantial increase in healthcare costs” , wrote Johann Pitout, University of Calgary, Canada, in a commentary in the same journal.
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Rain will star and planetary conjunction
A Perseid meteor shower and a beautiful planetary alignment, will be two spectacular astronomical events that no one should miss this Thursday 12 August.
Urania Astronomical Society reported that just as the sun sets you can appreciate the conjunction of Mars, Venus, Saturn and Mercury below them.
Shortly thereafter begin to appreciate some of the shooting stars coming from the constellation Perseus, which as the night progress will increase until, according to astronomers estimate a number of more than 80 per hour.
The phenomenon will last until dawn and can be appreciated for sky watchers who will marvel, once again, as they have for the last two thousand years with one of the most spectacular astronomical phenomena.
Recommendations celestial Urania Astronomical Society of the State of Morelos said that due to the presence of meteorological phenomena such as tropical waves, this may not be observed in many parts of the country, just where the sky is clear.
Meteor hunters will begin their guard after 21:00 pm on Thursday, August 12 when the constellation Perseus in the northeast exit.
This is the time to look for Perseid meteors that approach from the horizon and the air brush like stones skipping on the surface of a lake.
For best results in your observation is recommended to stay away from city lights.
The brightest Perseids can be seen from cities, but the most spectacular bursts, consisting of faint, delicate meteors, can only be seen in rural areas.
The Perseids start their activity from late July climaxed on 12 August.
This year the absence of the Moon encourage their observation, said Urania Astronomical Society.
The phenomenon will have its best before dawn on Friday 13 August.
Comets and rain NASA According to the source of the shower is Comet Swift-Tuttle.
Although the comet is far away from Earth, currently located beyond the orbit of Uranus, a comet’s tail of debris lying across the road back to Earth.
When crossing the road in August, the Earth intercepts comet dust particles that collide with the atmosphere at 212 000 kilometers per hour.
At that speed, even the smallest bit of dust makes a vivid streak of light when it disintegrates a shooting star.
The Perseids have been presented in recent years a decrease in the number of meteors per hour at an average estimated number of 80, after the recent passage of the comet Swift-Tuttle in 1992, the period is 120 years, the rains usually of stars increase their activity over your kite near home by the Sun
Thus, in 1993, during the rainy August that year, European observers reported up to 500 meteors per hour.
Even without knowing how to identify constellations, we can almost certainly see a Perseid, if weather conditions are favorable despite living in an urban area illuminated.
The particles that make up the Perseids are the size of a grain of salt and burn upon entering the atmosphere at 100 km above our heads.
